Utah opens Pac-12 tournament with battle vs. Stanford

A five-game losing streak ended any lingering hopes Utah had of claiming an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament.

The seventh-seeded Utes will need to win the Pac-12 tournament to go dancing, and their journey will begin on Wednesday when they face 10th-seeded Stanford in Las Vegas.

Underdog teams making a run through the Pac-12 tournament is not unprecedented. Oregon State did it in 2021 and used that as a launching pad