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Pac-12 women’s basketball report: No. 25 Colorado, USC’s next opponent, knocks off No. 8 UCLA

USC just lost to No. 9 Utah. Sunday in Boulder vs No. 25 Colorado won’t be easy, either. The Buffs scored a huge win over UCLA, which goes to Utah for a huge showdown.

This Mountain road trip is a supremely tough test for USC women’s basketball. The Trojans lost to No. 9 Utah on Friday in Salt Lake City. It won’t get any easier on Sunday in Boulder.

USC will have to face a No. 25 Colorado team which just took down No. 8 UCLA on Friday night. Colorado’s Kindyll Wetta hit a tie-breaking 3-pointer with 2.1 seconds left to give CU a 73-70 win over the Bruins. Colorado is now 3-0 at home this season against nationally-ranked opponents.

That’s USC’s next big test.

Buffaloes Wire has more on Colorado’s win over UCLA, describing the assist pass which set up Wetta’s winning shot.

“The pass came from guard Jaylyn Sherrod, who earlier in the night reached 400 career assists. Few, though, were sweeter than that clutch dish to Wetta,” Buffaloes Wire wrote.

“UCLA’s final heave in the waning seconds went wide at the buzzer, sending the CU Events Center into a frenzy along with the players on the court.”

USC-Colorado starts just after 11 a.m. Pacific time on Sunday. The early start is a product of the NFL conference championship games and the need to not go up directly against NFL programming. Follow Buffaloes Wire for more on the CU side of this game.

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Pac-12 basketball roundup: Stanford beats Utah in top-10 clash, UCLA rallies to beat Washington

These are great results for USC, which beat Stanford and wants the value of that win to remain high. USC lost 2X to UCLA. The Bruins winning is good in this case.

The other Pac-12 women’s basketball results from Friday night gave the USC Trojans good news.

First, since USC beat Stanford, the Trojans obviously want that win over the Cardinal to gain maximum value. This means that if Stanford is a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament as opposed to a No. 2 or 3 seed, USC will benefit more from that huge upset.

Friday night, No. 4 Stanford beat No. 8 Utah to take a big step toward staying on the one line as a projected top seed for March Madness. The Cardinal won an all-top-10 matchup to remain in first place in the conference. Stanford hosts Colorado on Sunday. The Buffaloes are 6-1 in the league. The winner will be first in the Pac-12 with one week left in January.

Notable: Stanford freshman point guard Talana Lepolo injured her ankle early in the game. She wore a protective boot after the injury, which caused her to miss most of the contest against Utah. This would seem to mean she will miss the Colorado game, so Stanford will be tested without a primary ball-handler.

In other Pac-12 results, UCLA trailed by nine at halftime but rallied to beat Washington in Seattle, 51-47. The Bruins beat USC twice, so as much as USC fans might not like to see UCLA win, in this case, the Bruins’ victory is unambiguously a good thing for the Trojans. USC does want those two UCLA losses to look better, not worse, as the season goes along.

A reminder: USC’s four losses are all to ranked teams: UCLA twice, Oregon once, Texas once.

Speaking of Oregon, one bad thing did happen to USC on Friday, though the Stanford and UCLA wins will minimize its negative effects: Oregon, one of USC’s few losses, did stumble. The Ducks lost at Oregon State and likely won’t be in the top 25 next week. Still, on balance, Pac-12 results from Friday, Jan. 20 were very good for USC women’s basketball.

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