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Worn-down Ute women’s basketball team will halt its season, turning down a WNIT bid

With her roster having been reduced to seven active players for the past three weeks, Utah women's basketball coach Lynne Roberts will turn down a WNIT bid, she said Friday.

“We are worn down, and you can just see it,” Roberts said in a news release.

The Utes took the program's highest-ever seed (No. 6) into this week's Pac-12 tournament in Las Vegas, but No. 11 Washington pulled off a 64-54 upset in the first round late Thursday at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Utah finished 20-10, after once being 18-1 and ranked No.