Prior to the season, the University of Utah softball team wasn’t ranked nationally. Slowly but surely, however, Utah crept its way up the list, and at the beginning of March it was the No. 16 team in the country, but their up and down performances have moved them up and down within the polls since then.
Although the Utes had slipped to No. 20 heading into their first Pac-12 game of the season, their recent sweep against the UCLA Bruins has placed the Utes at No. 11, the highest the team has been since polls began in 1995.