Women's Basketball Opens Home Slate Against Utah
11/19/2014 7:01:00 PM | Women's Basketball
OMAHA, Neb. - After ending South Dakota State's 22-game home win streak, the Creighton women's basketball team will look to begin one of its own as the Bluejays open their 2014-15 home schedule agaisnt Utah on Thursday, Nov. 20 at 7 p.m.
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Creighton vs. Utah:
Utah holds the series lead on the Bluejays, 7-5, but Creighton won all three meetings in 1992.
Utah leads 7-5
Home: 2-3 Away: 3-3 Neutral: 0-1
Date Result Score/Site
1/30/88 L 42-61 in Omaha
3/3/88 L 79-85 at Utah
2/9/89 L 62-77 in Omaha
2/25/89 L 54-75 at Utah
2/3/90 L 61-65 in Omaha
2/16/90 L 50-80 at Utah
1/19/91 W 76-73 at Utah
2/15/91 W 69-64 in Omaha
3/9/91 L 69-86 in Laramie
1/23/92 W 79-70 at Utah
2/22/92 W 74-66 in Omaha
3/14/92 W 74-63 at Utah
About Utah
- Located in Salt Lake City, Utah
- Utah was founded in 1850 and has an enrollment of 32,077.
- The Utes finished 2013-14 with a 12-19 record and a 4-14 mark in the Pac-12.
- Utah returns ten letter winners from last season, including three starters (Malia Nawahine, Emily Potter and Danielle Rodriguez).
Utah Head Coach: Anthony Levrets, Sixth Season (Defiance, 1997)
- Levrets has a career record of 70-66 (.515), all at Utah.
- In 2012-13, Levrets led Utah to a runner-up finish in the WNIT with a 23-14 record, falling to Drexel (46-43).
- Serving as interim head coach in 2010-11, Levrets guided Utah to an 18-17 record that included four-straight wins in the Mountain West Conference Tournament.
Scouting Utah (1-0)
The Utes opened the 2014-15 season looking for a way to replace the production of Michelle Plouffe, a three-time honorable mention All-American. Senior Taryn Wicijowski wasted no time taking on a new role as the forward scored 36 points and grabbed 19 rebounds to lead Utah past San Jose State, 100-87 (ot), in the season opener.
Utah committed 24 turnover in the win, leading to 26 points for San Jose State.
The Utes will look to pound the ball inside to Wicijowski as well as Malia Nawahine and Joeseta Fatuesi. The trio combined for 27-48 from the field and grabbed 32 rebounds against the Spartans. As a team the Utes grabbed 63 rebounds and scored 48 points in the paint in their season-opener.
Home Opener Tidbits
- The Bluejays posted a 68-63 win in their
- 2013-14 home opener against South
- Dakota State.
- Creighton is 26-14 all-time in its first home game of the year, including 10-4 in its last 14 home openers.
- Creighton is 8-4 in home openers under Jim Flanery and the Bluejays are 3-2 in openers at D.J. Sokol Arena.
- Under Flanery the Bluejays have defeated UMKC, Michigan, Northwestern, Houston, Arkansas-Little Rock, Arkansas State, Wyoming and South Dakota State. The losses were to Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma and South Dakota
- Creighton is 57-13 (.814) all-time at D.J. Sokol Arena, including 17-7 (.708) against non-conference opponents.
Flanery Against the Pac-12
While the Bluejays have not played Pac-12 opponents often under coach Flanery, Creighton is 3-1 against teams the conference.
Creighton is 3-0 against Oregon State and dropped a contest to Colorado the year the Buffalos joined the Pac-12 in 2011-12.
at Oregon State - W, 76-75 - 12/2/04
vs. Oregon State - W, 74-62 - 12/15/05
vs. Colorado - L, 49-54 - 12/21/11
vs. Oregon State - W, 76-75 - 12/19/14
Bluejays Take Down Fourth Longest Home Win Streak at South Dakota State
Creighton's win over South Dakota State on Nov. 18 ended the Jackrabbits 22-game win streak on their home floor. The Bluejays win elevated a future opponent to #4, Connecticut.
Longest Win Streak in the NCAA
1. Notre Dame - 29-games
2. Stanford - 28 games
3. Dayton - 26 games
4. Connecticut - 20 games
5. South Carolina - 19 games
Works Beats Shot Clock, Again
Sophomore Lauren Works is building a reputation. In the 88-81 win at South Dakota State on Nov. 18, Works drained a three-pointer from NBA range as the shot clock hit zero midway through the second period.
Works did the exact same thing twice last season banking in a trey as the shot clock expired on Nov. 17 (at Kansas) and banking in another Dec. 19 (vs. Oregon State).
