Head coach Cathy Nixon was desperate. The team was in a tailspin, and she needed to find a source of offense before the season got out of hand. Jenna Johnson was one of only two seniors on the team, and the only one to play in Nixon’s rotation. She should have been the steadying […]
Two qualities defined the UVU women’s basketball team all season: inconsistency and doing the unexpected. Unfortunately for them, they didn’t show up when the Wolverines needed them most. The second-seeded Wolverines fell 69-56 to No. 1 North Dakota in the Great West Conference Tournament championship, Saturday night, following a win (Friday’s semifinal victory) with […]
For the first time all season, the UVU women’s basketball team was inconsistent in a good way. The reserves jumpstarted the Wolverines in the first half before giving way to the starters in the second, combining to give UVU a 63-52 win over NJIT in the Great West Tournament semifinals. Newly minted conference […]
It’s hard to quantify how far the UVU men’s basketball team fell in their semifinal loss to NJIT, but here’s an attempt: • They went from winning 13 games in a row to dropping two straight • They failed to win a game in the Great West Conference Tournament as the No. […]
Come Friday’s semifinal game against NJIT, the Utah Valley women’s basketball team try to do what they’ve managed just once in conference play. Beat a team for the second time. That team was Houston Baptist, an injury-riddled tragedy that ended at the hands of NJIT on Thursday. The Huskies ended the season 1-27 […]
Friday night’s semifinal matchup sounds like something from a Broadway billboard. Isiah Williams vs. Isaiah Wilkerson. Chicago native vs. Staten Island product. 2011 Great West Player of the Year vs. 2012 Great West Player of the Year. Williams’ 15.8 points per game to Wilkerson’s 16.0ppg. UVU forward Geddes Robinson knows which one he’d rather […]
Jenna Johnson knows full well Utah Valley women’s basketball hasn’t met its own expectations this season. She knows they lost games they should have won, meshed later than they should have, and underachieved in their own eyes if not those of the coaches’ preseason poll. In short, this year’s Wolverines team looks a lot […]
The Wolverines nailed down multiple milestones in last week’s 74-64 win over Texas Pan-American. Among them: 20 wins, just the second time the program has won 20-plus 13 consecutive victories, the longest run in team history and the fourth-longest NCAA win streak heading into Saturday’s game at North Dakota Back-to-back regular season Great West […]
Knockouts, submissions and bloody faces. The Showdown fights on Feb. 24 in the UCCU Center proved to be monumental for Mixed Martial Arts. The fist-fest started with undefeated local fighter Jason South against undefeated Louisiana native Tim Ruberg. “I won’t tap out,” was the promise from Ruberg before the fight. With his […]
The UVU women’s basketball team will head into the Great West conference tournament riding the good momentum train after a big win against conference cellar-dweller Houston Baptist. The main theme for the Wolverine’s good play is defense. The team has played strong defense all season long and that has been the driving force behind […]