A furious fourth-quarter comeback by the Kansas State women got the Wildcats within two possessions of a hot-shooting Utah team on Saturday, but that’s as close as they’d get as they fell to the Utes at home, 80-73.
K-State (9-9, 2-3 Big 12) trailed by 19 heading into the final period, but fought all of the way back to four before Utah (13-4, 4-1) pulled away in the final minutes.
“I can positively say that (I’m) proud of the fight, proud of the fact that we continue to raise our level up. You saw us dive on the floor (and) play the game the right way,” head coach Jeff Mittie said. “It’s equally as frustrating to say, ‘What would have happened if that would have been our start today?’ If that’s how we would have started this game, diving on the floor, creating chaos, playing better together. If that would have been our start with this game, would this game have been different? That’s where it’s disappointing and frustrating that that wasn’t our start, because we don’t know the answer to that. We obviously fought hard at the end, and, for that, I hope we can build off of it.”
