Coming out of last week’s dreadful trip to Los Angeles, Utah needed a boost. The list of shortcomings from the trip was significant. By their own admission the Utes lacked rebounding, effort, toughness and defense.
With a win at home against Washington on Thursday that snapped a four-game losing streak, last week’s struggles don’t seem quite so painful. Thursday’s win marked the team’s first of 2018, its previous victory having come on New Year’s Eve in Corvallis, Ore.
Certainly, one game won’t cure all the ills. However, it did provide an element of optimism that the Utes could fix the errors which were most alarming.