Oregon @ Utah (Thursday)

[greenyellow]

he is in now.

Looks like Woods and Emory were serving a half-game suspension for some disciplinary reasons. Altman didn't elaborate on what they did.

http://www2.registerguard.com/cms/index ... bdue-utes/

[duckgrad99]

Maybe the best stat: only 7 turnovers.

[dthomas=ddixon]

Good, necessary road win. Emory looks to be coming into his own now, had a double double against the beevs. It'd be a huge boost to this team is he could produce of the bench consistently like this the rest of the season. Big game at CU, a fight for 2nd in conference.

[oregontrack]

at the final media time out of the first half, utah was shooting 75% from the field and had us 3:1 on free throw attempts, but we were only down five. i thought it was a pretty good sign. and then we tied it up at 36 at the break. i was feeling pretty good at that point, but kudos to the utes for keeping things competitive until late.

emory was fantastic, again. one of the moderators of this site was ripping him last month, calling him the worst player on the team, but as i said then: jc kids take about half a season to adjust to the speed and level of play of d-1 basketball. in fact, we as a message board community should probably stop ripping players in general -- lest we recall all those threads i was defending garrett sim against four or five different attackers. players develop differently. i've been guilty of this, too: i've been one of the many who cringe when jonathan loyd checks in. but really, we should knock it off.

[duckfan96]

no different than all the so called fans calling for bb to start over dt, and then the first time bb messes up callin for marcus to come in.