SALT LAKE CITY — Utah made it to the Pac-12 Championship game for the first time since joining the league, but that's about where the highlights ended for the Utes in their Pac-12 Tournament experience.
However, the 88-57 Oregon rout over Utah is now an opportunity for the Utes to refocus and use the loss as motivation heading into the NCAA Tournament as a No. 3 seed against Fresno State.
"It's not going to impact us. If anything it's going to help us," Lorenzo Bonam said after the game Saturday. "It makes us want to play harder than what we did.