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Saturday, March 11
Denver, Colo. (Pepsi Center)
4:00 PM
University of Utah
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at
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BYU (MWC Championship Game)
Utah Wins MWC Championship
3/11/2006 12:00 AM | Women's Basketball
March 11, 2006
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DENVER (AP) - Julie Larsen and Shona Thorburn stole the show from a pair of co-MVPs and led No. 19 Utah past No. 20 Brigham Young 84-60 in the Mountain West Conference championship on Saturday.
Larsen scored a career-high 24 points and Thorburn, a fellow senior, recorded the first triple-double in the 7-year history of the league.
Thorburn's 15 points, 11 assists and 10 rebounds earned her tournament Most Valuable Player honors, and Larsen was 6-of-7 on 3-pointers in helping secure the Mountain West's automatic NCAA tournament bid for the second-seeded Utes (24-6).
The regular-season champion Cougars (25-5) will be joining their archrivals in the postseason party, and neither team would mind returning to the Pepsi Center for the first and second rounds of the NCAA tournament next week.
The title game pitted the conference's co-players of the year, Utah's Kim Smith and BYU's Ambrosia Anderson. They both started slowly with Smith not getting her first basket until 13:50 was left in the first half, and Anderson netting her first 90 seconds later.
Smith finished with 14 points, and Anderson had 11.
Dani Kubik led BYU with 12 points. Morgan Warburton added 12 points for Utah, and Jessica Perry scored 10 as the Utes outshot the Cougars 56 percent to 37 percent and led from start to finish.
The Cougars fell behind by nine points in the early going but recovered with their only accurate stretch from the perimeter. The Utes restored their cushion behind Larsen's 19 first-half points, including a 5-for-5 performance from beyond the arc.
Larsen's 3 just before the buzzer gave the Utes a 44-33 lead at the half and their lead never dipped below double digits in the final 20 minutes. Utah led by as many as 27 over the top-seeded Cougars.
The 5-foot-4 Larsen was in such a groove that BYU put the 6-1 Anderson on her at times in the second half, but the game got so far out of hand it didn't matter as the Cougars never showed a comeback spirit.
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