Instant: Washington Falls to Utah 67-66

Photo by Jeff Halstead/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesWho would have thought coming into the beginning of PAC 12 play that the matchup of Mike Hopkins’s Washington Huskies and Larry Krystowiak’s Utah Runnin’ Utes would be one pairing last place teams in the conference? Such was the case on Thursday night as Washington (12-8) dropped an ugly one to Utah (11-7).

The Utes and the Huskies won 20 games between the two of them during the out of conference portion of their schedules only to post a combined 3-8 combined conference record coming into their matchup. Utah was in particular dire straits having lost four in a row for the first time in three seasons. Their win helped them to end that…