Game Notes:
When Utah hosted #2 Arizona Thursday night, there was cautious optimism after the Runnin’ Utes had a two-game Bay Area sweep of Stanford and Cal that it would be a competitive game. Unfortunately, Thursday night was a harsh reminder of the gap facing Utah against the elite competition in college basketball as Arizona easily defeated Utah 97-77 behind a 23 point effort from Tubelis and 21 points from Kriisa. The Utes led by 1 with 7 minutes to go in the first half before Arizona went off in the final 7 minutes and led 53-33 at the half.