HIGHLIGHTS: @UtahMBB bests Holy Cross 87-69 at the historic Huntsman Center

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Utah. Van's good evening.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Welcome courtside and inside the John and Hunksman Center. Game
three of the Alex Jensen arap. We have a Holy
Cross Crusaders in tonight. I'm Bill Riley and my partner
Sean Mooney here with me tonight as we get you
ready for the ut of the Crusaders. Here see how
it goes. Third all time meeting between these two schools.
They met in nineteen fifty nine, they met in nineteen

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eighty eight. Utah won both of those games. By the way,
something very interesting about these two schools. These are two
of the sixteen schools in the history of college basketball
that have an MC Double A and an NIT title
to their credit. They're only sixteen, only sixteen. Two of
them are playing tonight. Two of them are playing tonight,
and Utah one. It's MC double A title in nineteen

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forty four. Holy Cross won there sat forty five with
a guy named Bob Boozy. See how it plays out
tonight here at the Huntsmen Center. So glad you're with
us telling holy Cross here tonight. Josh Hayes gonna jump
it up against AID and D two. Just a freshman
to boot to Texas ship up and controlled by pull

(01:04):
across and the Crusaders will move right to left as
you listen to it and as we call it here
at the Huntsman Center tonight. So glad to be with
you as Utah opens up an Amanda man. If you
taw basketball down by three, here's Terrence Brown whipping it
to the corner. Now outside Don McHenry for three, around
and down it goes. That's a bullseye and Utah ties

(01:25):
it at seven assists. Canadas could have taken the shot
in the corner, but gave it up to Don mcknry.
Terrence Brown crossing over, picks up his dribble at the
left elbow, fires outside. Now Utah resets Trey Orri at
the right elbow, leaves the baseline for DAWs. He'll attack,
laid up and in. He took the bump and got
it to go Wayley with his first bucket. Really nice

(01:46):
passed by Trayer and then kd just played right through
his man and slowed down a feest.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
He's a space heater. He's got a really nice touch
around the road.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
Terrence Brown getting down, he'll lay up good in the foul.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
How'd that shot?

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Go English on that ball, Moly hit the bottom of
the rim and crawled all the way over the top
of it and end.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
TB. You're picking up where he left off the other night.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
And that's four points for him now and a chance
for a three point play back the other way. Come
the Crusaders. A three by Nugent. That's what he does.
I so you gotta find he's number thirty man. He's
the best shooter on the floor, left handed, sharp shooter.
Utah's missed its last five. They're not scored more than
two minutes. Tied to twelve. Here thirteen to fifty five

(02:29):
to play first half, Brown moving left back outside. That's
a three ball up by Sanders and good bullseye Kendall
Sanders makes it fifteen to twelve. Utah Obamante abby outside
Jake Patrick, he'll drive floated high off the window.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
Can't get it to go. Hay's there for the rebound.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
Josh Hayes with three around him, loses the handle and
holy Cross handsome.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
Josh did a good job getting the rebound. They just
got it too low.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
Here's a three on the other end by Rae Chard
and he knocks it down. Now a third triple here
for Holy Cross early and it's two point lead for Utah.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
To make it worse for Hayes, step back, laid on that.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
Shooter fifteen on the time er. Here for Utah.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
Patrick will hoist a three and rattle it down for
a bulls eye. Jake Patrick with a triple, lead back
to five, twenty to fifteen.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
He made it look easy and it was easily four
feet behind the.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
Three yoyo's that dribble to the left elbow, then kicks
it back out again almost halfway through the first half.
Here at the Huntsman Center, Abbey on the wing mckenry
for three. Bulls eye Don with his second triple, he's
got six in Utah with its biggest lead of eight.
Here's DAWs down the lane, DAWs to the window, reverses

(03:45):
it up and in canadawz. That's something we need to
see him do more of. Sean, let's put that ball.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
In the deck. I love it, and they didn't come
to help.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
He made a really decisive play there and one dribble
gets him too the rim second free throw, that one's
a little too strong, long rebound off to Jake Patrick.
Utuss got numbers if they can take advantage five on four,
throw it to the corner mckenry for three, missed it
rebound of the week side Josh Hayes going up with it,
willie up to jump hook. Good Josh Hayes. Good patience

(04:15):
here his teammates daring scroun going.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
Go up, go up.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
TV's a waity to take it if he's telling him
to go up, and Josh did a nice time to
be an under control though Lubamonte Abbey outside, Don mckenry inside.
Josh Hayes finishes through contact and an add one opportunity.
Great find from McHenry in a good patient move again
by Josh Hayes, who has eight. He hammers that dribble
at the interlocking you and now moves to his rights

(04:41):
back to the point to Kendall Sanders. Sanders to Don
mcchenry baseline lay up.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
Good. How about the big man finding the little man for.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
The layoup eight seconds as he gets the instructions from
his head coach Dave Foulson down the lane, jump stop
floater up missing rebound Keano Donaldson that will take us
to halftime. Tabby tried a seventy five footer and hit
the right side of the backboard.

Speaker 1 (05:06):
And it's halftime here at the Huntsman Center.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
And after twenty minutes of basketball, A good twenty minutes
of basketball for Alex Jensens guys. They leaded forty eight
thirty four.

Speaker 3 (05:14):
Offensively, have been pretty good the first of the year.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
Bill.

Speaker 3 (05:16):
Nothing wrong with forty eight points in the first.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
Halt, No, not at all. They scored the basketball, they
ran their offense. They shot fifty nine percent of the floor.
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(05:40):
it's you taw forty eight and Holy Cross thirty four.
So Utah comes out cold here missing the first couple
of shots. Here's a layup going, Oh, a circus shot
from Dzu Aiden.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
D Su just threw it up, hopefully got it to go.

Speaker 3 (05:54):
How about the Andy spout with the with the circus shot,
but he got a rebound.

Speaker 2 (05:59):
Oba mate Abbey back in the ball game. Gives it
up to Terrence Brown. Now Josh Hayes, who's battling foul
trouble tonight, Treyory running the point, say do you three
pointers straight away? Got it? Pulls on second triple tonight.
Sometimes when you see one go in, you're changing things.
I'm glad it has for Sad. He missed eight in

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a row from deep. Now he's made two. Now he's
made back to bat Don McHenry run at the point,
out high, Keana Dawes right side, Abbey baseline drive kicks
to an open McHenry four, three short rebat dunk back
by Keana Dogs goodness, he floated in there. Stung the
brim with that one. Now some full cord pressure, but

(06:43):
we haven't seen him full cord pressure all night long.
They're gonna bring it here with a mint of forty
to play. Abby, gonna bring it up the floor, pressured
by Tyler Boston, and he walked with it, got away
with it inside they go KD we'll dunk it down.
Great pass by Sanders. Now shot you tell way to
be space down ready for the pressure. Fifty nine. So
we're having clock issues here. Tony Padilla is all over

(07:05):
that clock man.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
There's no one that knows the more.

Speaker 2 (07:08):
Call him father time because he is all over it Tonight,
I like it all right under a minute to play
at Ronobamonte Abbey's got it. At the interlocking year, they're
still running offenses Utah Abby outside Terrence Brown leaves it
for Dawes, who dunks it down.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
KD now with fourteen eighty seven sixty nine.

Speaker 3 (07:33):
I like to see that.

Speaker 2 (07:35):
Here's a three the other way by Williams missing Dawes
with the rebound, and that'll do it.

Speaker 1 (07:40):
Shot clock off.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
Twenty seconds to play and the best performance by far
of the season tonight for the University of Utah as
they will win convincingly over Holy Cross final score eighty
seven to sixty nine.

Speaker 1 (07:55):
I'll take it.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
What I really liked about that last possession is where
it ended up in Kad's hands on the block.

Speaker 3 (08:00):
Nice job in Utah.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
Utah finishes with five and double figures, led by Terrence
Brown's twenty one fourteen points for Dawes, twelve points for McHenry,
ten points for Triory. Tonight and Utah wins in Obamonte
Abbey also in double figures with ten points. Utah eighty
seven and Holy Cross sixty nine