The Utes head to Oregon this weekend with intentions of breaking the trend they’ve seen develop during their nonconference road games. It also wouldn’t hurt if they got a few more healthy bodies in uniform.
The script for Utah in enemy territory has gone like this: At some point during a competitive, tightly contested game the Utes help fuel a game-changing run by their hosts by committing a succession of ill-timed turnovers and falling victim to momentary lapses in defense and/or rebounding. It happened in each of the three losses at UNLV, Butler and BYU.
The Utes (8-3) hope they’ve fixed those issues as they get set to open Pac-12 Conference play against Oregon (10-3) at 8 p.