Las Vegas • For those who wondered what Utah’s basketball team would look like next season without the scoring of Sedrick Barefield and Parker Van Dyke, the senior guards unintentionally provided the answer in the Pac-12 tournament.
Those players will be missed, but not the versions of them that appeared in the Utes’ 66-54 loss to Oregon in Thursday’s quarterfinals. The consolation is their combined nine-point showing is replaceable, even if that’s not the true story of what they’ve meant to the program.
Without those two, Utah will be built differently in 2019-20.