San Francisco • The foundation has been laid, Lynne Roberts said, but at times, it still feels like she’s working in wet cement. That’s the dichotomy of focusing on the now, pressing tirelessly for wins today, yearning for respect in arguably the best conference in women’s college basketball, but also playing the long game.
“As we continue to climb and build,” said Roberts, who enters Year 3 as Utah’s head women’s basketball coach, “we’re doing it in the best conference in the country.”
At Wednesday’s Pac-12 women’s basketball Media Days inside the Pac-12 Network studios in downtown San Francisco, Roberts sat on the edge of her chair on the platform when asked if there is a blueprint to follow of making that climb up to where the game’s top programs — Stanford, UCLA, Cal, Oregon State — are, and staying there.