Game thread. #14 Utah @#9 OSU.

I liked how Katie gathered the team together in the 4th quarter at the defensive end. She had a very intensive talk with them. Their best defense of the game then followed.

SR is happy that Destiny is so aggressive on offense. It's her gambling on defense that drives him a little batty.

Need more birthdays and sick days for Maddie, she's awesome after each. I'll have to think about how to arrange that....

Once or twice a game I think to myself, "another pass or two before the shot would have been good Destiny", and "SHOOT Katie, just SHOOT". But really, in a whole game does that really matter?

Do people really not notice guards head to the basket, see Jo planted there, and turn right around and go back to the perimeter?

Aleah dropping those FT's coooool as can be.

Mik had an off game and she still did better than anyone other than Huff on the Utah team.

Taya's defense keeps improving and the fouls keep being less of a problem.

If the Beav's play defense that they've mostly shown in the past four games I see them leading the Pac-12 in a couple of weeks.

In the last 5 minutes of the game, with the game on the line, Huff didn't score. That's not a knock on Huff, I wish she was a Beaver. I think that shows great effort by the Beaver defense, and probably a lack of maturity by Utah. T

The Beavers have played much better defense these past four games, since the loss to Arizona State, and if they are to continue to win these next couple weekends, they are going to really need to keep that up, or even kick it up a notch.