From Deseret News archives:
Utes bomb outmanned Tigers
The victory, before approximately 5,000 fans at the Huntsman Center, moved the Utes to 6-2 on the season with a tough game coming up Tuesday night at 4-0 Louisiana State.
Saturday's game went pretty much as expected for one scheduled as an end-of-test-week breather and because the opponents' coach is a friend of Ute coach Rick Majerus.
The Tigers, who won just four games last year and had already lost games by 40 and 38 points this season, were no match for the Utes, despite the fact that the home team rested its top players and really didn't play all that great.
The only real mystery is how this Tiger team could possibly have beaten Eastern Kentucky earlier this week.
None of Utah's top three scorers on the season even played more than 15 minutes as Majerus played his second-stringers and an out-of-shape Tim Frost as many minutes as possible.
Freshman center Andrew Bogut scored 17 points in just 15 minutes on 8-of-11 shooting, while Richard Chaney scored nine in 14 minutes before getting an elbow in the face early in the second half. He went to the hospital where he was diagnosed with a bruise below his right eye.
Frost, still working his way back into shape after sitting out most of the preseason with a back injury, had the best numbers, finishing with 13 points and 12 rebounds in 30 minutes of action. He was the logical choice to be interviewed after the game, but alas, Majerus had him running sprints in the nearby HPER gym to help his conditioning.
For his part, after the game Majerus almost acted embarrassed by the margin of victory as well as the opponent.
"There's nothing really you can say . . . your front line was too much. I knew we were going to be too much," he said. "I wanted to book a team that I felt we could beat at the end of exam week."
He also extolled his team's academic record for the umpteenth time and rationalized the opponent by pointing out that the Utes are "the only team in our league that will play a Big East team, a Big Ten team, two Big 12 teams and an SEC team" this year.
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