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Show DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE Friday, March 1, 2013 7 WOMEN'S BASKETBALL Utes to finish season in Oregon Michael Smith STAFF WRITER Utah will head to the Pacific Northwest this weekend to play Oregon State and Oregon in the final two games of the regular season. Two wins would mean the Utes would finish with a .Soo record in Par-12 play and would carry a lot of momentum into next week's conference tournament in Seattle. "Our kids know that these games [this weekend] are big for us and our postseason hopes," said Utah head coach Anthony Levrets. After losing their first six conference games of the season, the Utes have righted the ship in winning seven of their past io games, and they are playing their best ball of the season. Their first stop is in Corvallis, Ore., against an Oregon State team that is in the midst of a Io-game losing streak. In the teams' first meeting 19 days ago, Utah won 66-40 as Iwalani Rodrigues and Michelle Plouffe combined for 32 points and 20 rebounds. The Utes held Oregon State to 29percent shooting while shooting 48percent themselves. Despite the dominating fashion in which Utah (16II, 7-9 Pac-12) beat the Beavers, the Utes aren't changing their outlook for this weekend, especially since Oregon State only lost to No. 6 Cal by two points on the road last week. "We have to go in there and compete and not expect it to be the same outcome as it was here," Levrets said. "We have to find a way to win." Michelle Plouffe reiterated her coach's mind-set of not expecting to be handed a victory "We can't underestimate them," Plouffe said. "We need to forget about how we already beat them." Utah's last stand of the season will take place Sunday afternoon in Eugene, Wash. The Utes will take on the Ducks (4-24, 2-14 Pac-12) in Knight Arena. Oregon has eight losses in its last nine games and has only won three of its 14 home games. In the first meeting in Salt Lake City, the Utes crushed the Ducks 67-47 and had 18 points off 14 Oregon turnovers. Plouffe knows Utah will have to have a strong defensive effort this weekend in order to end the regular season on a high note. "They are both good rebounding teams," Plouffe said. "We can't give them any second-chance points, especially at [their] home." In addition to playing solid defense, Utah has to remain focused on this weekend alone. They can't look ahead to the conference tournament starting next Thursday. "We started talking about the tournament a month ago," Levrets said. "It isn't distracting to play in these games. It's fun." m.smith@chronicle.utah.edu Twitter: @smithmichael8 WINSLOW Continued from page 6 opinion, TD_ c 0_ CD n University MEDIA SALES GROUP TM THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH 2 17 1 6 5 2 9 7 4 1 8 3 7 3 2 5 1 8 9 5 6 4 9 7 8 5 _ 5 4 1 4 6 ANSWERS TO TODAY'S PUZZLE SCOT PECKS SOB THREEFORONE AR I RA I NBOWROOM DOG I RONAGE TISSUE ALLEY RUS CORA TIER PORE OINKS EES DOUBLEBOGEY MORTAL S IN S T R U C K A N O T E CMD AAN CHE S IN YET I S EVE SORTA T R I C K Y SITSOUT HAN INTHEFUTURE EPA STEAL SBASES DYE SHELF RES T wwwpopculturecomics.com © Doug Bratton 2007 Opinion Columnist today. j.rush@chronicle.utah.edu • I NEED FUNDING FOR LA STUDENTPUBLICATION Student publications are eligible to receive funding from the Student Media Council for the 2012-2013 academic year. Contact Jake Sorensen, Director of Business, at jake.sorensen@utah.edu to receive an application. Completed applications are due Thursday, March 7, 2013 before 4:00 pm. tPIGo, eto STUDENT MEDIA COUNCIL THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH lo I' 0 voicing your Michelle Plouffe and the Utes head to Oregon this weekend to play Oregon State and Oregon in the final two games of the regular season before the conference tournament in Seattle the following week. air. After a couple rotations, Winslow allegedly pulled Applin out of the pool and proceeded to tape a long, thin PVC pipe to his back. Applin said Winslow then wrapped tape around his stomach and chest, then taped his outstretched hands to the pipe above his head. Applin was then told to proceed with the underwaters. The pool's gutters made it difficult for Applin to stand because the PVC pipe would get stuck in the gutter's overhang. "The next thing I knew, I woke up in Greg's lap," Applin said. "I didn't even know I had blacked out." Sterling said Rainbow Push, Rev. Jesse Jackson's civil rights organization, contacted the university about Applin's incident, though he couldn't provide any further information. The 0E0 recommended no disciplinary action when the investigation concluded on Jan. 24. Diving coach Richard Marschner was appointed interim head coach in light of Winslow's suspension. Utah's women's team is competing in the Pac-12 Championships in Federal Way, Wash. The women's swim team wraps up the Pac-12 championships Saturday, and the men's conference championship begins the following day. j.bullinger@chronicle.utah.edu Twitter: @jakebullinger Get paid for show. "Those turnovers suck the life out of you. You can't defend them. It got the crowd involved, got them going, just disrupted us." As if things weren't already bad, they only got worse after Tucker's layup. Cal secured seven offensive rebounds in the second half and led by as many as 22. Utah shot just 26 percent in the second half, as it missed many wide open shots. "It's somewhat of a recipe for disaster when you have a combination of turning it over and then when you're getting open looks they're not going in," Krystkowiak said. "It kind of compounds the issue." Cal's Allen Crabbe led all scorers with 15 points to go along with II rebounds, while Jordan Loveridge led the Utes with just nine points. Indicative of the way the game played out, Loveridge went scoreless in the second half. The defeat was the Utes' third consecutive and they still have not eclipsed last year's three victories in Pac-12 play. The Bears have now won six straight. The schedule doesn't get any easier for the Utes, as next up is a Sunday matinee against Stanford in Palo Alto, Calif. Utah fell to the Cardinal by 31 on Jan. 27 in its worst performance of the season. "We got to remember this feeling that we have right now and take that feeling and remind us going into Sunday that we don't want that feeling at the end of the game," Dean said. "We need to go into practice tomorrow and the next day prepping for Stanford and get focused for the game Sunday." The contest will tipoff at 3 p.m. and will air on the Pac-12 Networks. r.mcdonald@chronicle.utah.edu Twitter: @ryanwmcdonald KARINA PUIKKONEN/The Daily Utah Chronicle 1 ' le Continued from page 6 Even hamsters write letters to the editor. CT) tim's family, in a statement. "Until these coaches firmly understand that there is absolutely no tolerance for this type of behavior ... this type of sordid and sick activity will continue." While university administrators learned of the allegations about 12 hours prior to the suspension, ASU police placed a call to the U Police in early December, according to university spokesman Keith Sterling. U Police did not disclose the phone call to any administrators. Winslow's suspension follows a history of suspicious behavior. The U's Office of Equal Opportunity investigated Winslow earlier in the season following complaints from the families of dismissed team members Austin Fiascone and Karson Applin. Much of the investigation centered around an alleged abusive and racially-oriented incident regarding Applin, the team's only black swimmer at the time. The incident occurred on Martin Luther King Jr. Day of 2010. According to Applin, he was joking about getting practice off because he was black. The team was swimming underwaters, an exercise in which the swimmer must swim the entire length of the pool without surfacing for RUNNIN' UTES prwr Ewoks always got cast as Munchkins in Wookie productions of The Wizard of Oz. |
