You build, you build and you build, and during the whole process, you hope that one day, you’ll have a game like this. Against an established winner, a title contender, on your own floor, with another shot to prove that every practice, game, recruiting trip, everything during this era were all just pieces of an upward trend.
They’d never come out and say it, not during this memorable run, but the No. 21 Utes have their shot. And it’s the first of many. On Sunday at noon, when the ball is tossed in the air against No. 6 Stanford, Utah will play in its biggest game in the five seasons of the Lynne Roberts era.