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No. 2 Utah Set to Host No. 10 Princeton in NCAA Second Round
3/18/2023 5:58 PM | Women's Basketball
THE MATCHUP
Sunday, March 19 | 5 p.m. (MT)
#2 Utah (26-4, 15-4 Pac-12) vs #10 Princeton (24-5; 12-2 Ivy League)
Location: Jon. M Huntsman Center, Salt Lake City, UT
TV: ESPN2
Radio: ESPN700 KALL | Listen Live Click Here
Live Stats: Click Here
HOW TO TUNE IN
Fans can watch the game on ESPN2 with Elise Woodward and Dan Hughes calling the action. The radio call will be on ESPN 700 KALL, with Bill Riley handling play-by-play and Milee Enger as analyst. Live stats are on UtahUtes.com.
TICKETS
•Tickets to all NCAA Tournament First and Second Round Games are available online at UtahTickets.com or by calling 801-581-8849.
HEAR FROM HEAD COACH LYNNE ROBERTS
We get Princeton, and we are excited about it. You know, this is the game 364 days ago we lost the chance to go to the Sweet 16, and we have been motivated to get here. Our players are fired up, and our staff is fired up knowing the challenge that it will be.
Princeton is very good, incredibly well coached. We stayed up way too late watching film last night on them. So they're good. So we have our hands full, but we are looking forward to having another great crowd, and that was a huge -- you know, I'm a broken record at this point. It matters in winning. And it helped us last night, and we are going to need it tomorrow.
UTES IN THE NCAA TOURNAMENT
• Utah was selected as the No. 2 seed, the highest seeding in school history.
• The highest the University of Utah had been seeded in the NCAA Tournament prior to this year was No. 5 in 1982-83, 1996-97, 2000-01, 2005-06.
• The Utes have earned back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances for the first time since the 2008 and 2009 this season.
• Utah has made the 19 total NCAA Tournament appearances.
• Utah has only made the NCAA Tournament as a Pac-12 member one time before and it was the 2021-22 season.
• This is the third time the NCAA Women's Tournament has been in Salt Lake City. The first time was in 2000-01 and then later in 2010-11.
• Utah's 103 points against Gardner-Webb were the most points scored in an NCAA Tournament game by the Utes.
• Alissa Pili's 33 points against Gardner-Webb is the second highest scored by a Ute in an NCAA Tournament game. Kim Webb dropped 35 in 2003.
• Utah is looking to make it to the Sweet 16 for the first time since 2005-06 and the third time in school history.
QUICK NOTES FOR THIS WEEK
• Utah claimed its first Pac-12 title by taking down No. 3 Stanford 84-78.
• Then ranked, No. 3 Stanford is the highest ranked team Utah has beaten in school history and Utah has a 4-2 record over ranked teams this season.
• Utah's No. 8 ranking in this week's AP Polls marks for the 12th consecutive week in the AP Top 10. Utah has been ranked in the AP Poll 18 consecutive weeks, breaking the program record of nine weeks in a row set in 2001 and the most total weeks ranked in the same season.
• This week's NCAA NET rankings place the Utes at No. 7, second-best among Pac-12 teams behind Stanford (4).
• Utah's 26-4 overall record on the season is its best through 30 games since 2000-01, when the Utes went 27-3.
• Utah's 14-0 start was the second-best in program history (16-0 in 1997-98) and tied for the fourth-best start by any program in Pac-12 history. It's the best start for Utah in the Pac-12 Era.
• Utah is the nation's No. 4 scoring team and ranks in the top 10 nationally in five major statistical categories:
o No. 4 field-goal percentage (48.9)
o No. 7 scoring margin (+17.8)
o No. 4 in scoring (84.1)
o No. 5 in assists per game (18.8)
o No. 6 in free throws per game (16.13)
• Three Utes averaging in double-figure scoring pace a balanced team attack: Alissa Pili (20.7), Gianna Kneepkens (15.4) and Jenna Johnson (12.0). Pili is No. 1 in the Pac-12 in scoring while Kneepkens is seventh among the Pac-12's best.
• Junior forward Alissa Pili, recently named to the USBWA and AP All-American Second Team leads the team in scoring (20.7, 1st Pac-12, 14th NCAA) and ranks 15th in the nation (1st Pac-12) in field-goal percentage (59.1%). She also sits at No. 14 nationally in total made field goals with 238. The Pac-12 Player of the Year hit 1000 career points earlier this season.
• Sophomore Gianna Kneepkens ranks 16th in the nation in three-point shooting percentage (42.5%), No. 3 among Pac-12 players.
• Utah holds an all-time home record of 549-131 (.806), and has won 18 of its last 19 home games, including 14-0 this year. The Utes have nine undefeated home seasons. This is the best home record since 2002-03 when the Utes also went 12-0. This is the best home record in the Pac-12 era.
• Watch Lists: Gianna Kneepkens (Cheryl Miller Award/top small forward). Alissa Pili (Katrina McClain Award; top power forward; Wooden Award & Ann Drysdale Meyers Award Midseason Watch Lists).
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