Utah’s Utes will play a game against Western Kentucky at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday night and try to feel better about their failings earlier this season.
It’s a tournament for teams that could not or, at least, did not meet their goals when the regular season started and when it ended.
It’s a tournament whose champion can proclaim: “See, we didn’t screw up as bad as everybody thought.”
Their promising high points during the season betray that kind of notion, the reward now is too pedestrian. Those moments suggest that maybe, just maybe, Utah basketball could have been above all this one-more-shot folderol.