Wyoming - 69
Utah          - 64

Luke Nevill - 25 pts,  9 reb
Daniel Ewing - 21 pts, 3 ast

I don't pretend to know everything, but I think I can spot the obvious.  And when it comes to last possesions in a one possesion game, the Utes aren't very good. 

In fact, 4 of the last 5 games have been decided by the final Ute possesion.  Of those 4 close games, the Utes have walked off the court losers in all 4.  The blame has gone to a bad call, bad execution, and starting too late in the clock, but tonight was different.

Tonight, Jim Boylen said after the game, that what they got was the best option.  I'm sorry but I find many things wrong with that statement.  Boylen told reporters that they had 4 options on the play, and one wasn't open, Bryant didn't like his, and Kepkay's running/fall away three was the best option.  After two timeouts, that was the best you could do?

Why not dumb the play down and instead of trying four different option, try to execute on just one, maybe two.  With four options, each player is trying to get their option to work instead of everybody efforting to make the only option available with off ball screens and such. 

But like I said, I'm not a basketball expert.  But after four failures, lessons should be learned and turned into success.  As a coach, shouldn't you have your go to guy?  Shouldn't there be the one guy, who in a situation like this you look at in the huddle and say, "It's your shot, go get it," then turn to the others and say this is how we are getting him the shot?  If Jim Boylen doesn't have that guy, he needs to be found.

One other problem seems to be consistantly popping up as the Utes struggle.

The Utes once again suffered a offensive drought.  A 10 minute strech spanning the final 8 minutes of the 1st half and the first 2 minutes of the 2nd half where they did not score a field goal (9:53 seconds to be exact.  From a Luke Nevill layup with 7:54 on the clock to a Carlon Brown jumper 1:59 into the second half).  That would equal a quarter of the game without putting the ball through the hoop.  (The Utes did score on 5 made free throws, but that is still just 5 points in a 10 minute stretch.)

For this team to be successful, someone is going to have to be a go to guy to break these droughts.  It looked like that guy was going to be Johnnie Bryant, but he was only 2 - 15 tonight and struggled from the field.  It probaly should be Luke Nevill, but he only had 2 filed goal attemps during that stretch.  So someone needs to step up.