As a full schedule of women’s volleyball matches around the Pac-12 took shape Sunday, No. 18 Utah potentially could have joined in a six-way tie for first place in the conference.
That possibility crumbled later in the afternoon, partly because of the Utes' failure to finish their own match against No. 24 Washington State at the Huntsman Center. Utah missed a good close-out opportunity in the fourth set and absorbed a 3-2 defeat.
So ended Utah's late-October run of facing four Top 25 teams in conference play. The Utes lost to No. 15 California, No. 2 Stanford and WSU in five sets each, while beating No.