Sunday, November 18, 2012

Those Darn Bengals

On Wednesday night, the Utes host the Idaho State Bengals on the first night of the first annual Utah Thanksgiving Tournament.  We had one of our more frustrating losses against the Bengals in the third place game of the 1959 Western Regional of the NCAA tournament.  After getting beat up pretty good by eventual champion California, we felt pretty good about our prospects against the Bengals.  We finished our regular season 21-5 and were ranked between 15-20 throughout the season.

But the Bengals got us that day by the score of 71-65.  We got off to an awful start, falling behind 44-24 at the half.  But thanks to Pearl Pollard's 21 points and 10 rebounds, we almost came back.  But alas, the comeback came up a little short.  We just couldn't rebound that day -- getting out-boarded 43-31. 

I hope the guys do a little bit better this week.

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