Pullman, Wash. • The only two Pac-12 basketball teams that beat Washington State in the past three weeks held the offense-oriented Cougars to 36 second-half points.
First-place Washington, not surprisingly, was one of those clubs. The other? Utah, the team that hardly appeared to be in the Huskies' league as of Wednesday in Seattle.
Utah recovered offensively in Saturday’s 92-79 victory at Washington State. The Utes won the game because they improved defensively after a poor start at Beasley Coliseum, where Washington had won by only two points the previous weekend.
The shooting of Sedrick Barefield and Parker Van Dyke got Utah going in the first half, and the stopping power of Donnie Tillman and his teammates kept them ahead in the second half.