Jackson Shelstad's injury absence has created an unexpected need at point guard for the Oregon men's basketball team. The Ducks' exhibition game against Utah at 7 p.m. Friday ... a former star player for the Utes who was on the Dallas Mavericks' staff ...

Utah has already played two exhibition games (losses to Nevada and at Oregon), and its regular season begins Monday when it hosts San Jose State at 7 p.m. MST at the Huntsman Center. The matchup will be televised on ESPN+.

The product on the court wasn't perfect — it was the first game of the season after all — but the Alex Jensen era of college basketball started off on a positive note.

Utah by no means was perfect in Jensen’s first victory. The Spartans had a one-point lead with 9:14 remaining in the game before Jensen’s crew ultimately reclaimed the lead. The Utes stormed back thanks to a 23-point outing from junior Iowa transfer Seydou Traore.

Seydou Traore scored 23 points, 18 of them in the second half, and Don McHenry had 16 for Utah in a season-opening 84-75 win over San Jose State on Monday night.

Alex Jensen has a picturesque view from his office in the Jon M. and Karen Huntsman Basketball Facility on the University of Utah campus. Beyond the all-glass facade at the west end of the office, the Salt Lake Valley can be seen from an elevated view on ...

If there was ever a chance for Utah men's basketball coach Alex Jensen to pick the brains of some of the sport's most respected individuals, Wednesday would've

Barring wicked injuries, it could be reasonably expected that Utah will win the rest of its regular-season games. That’s exactly what the Utes, according to what Devon Dampier said on Saturday night, after they did away with the Cincinnati Bearcats, a team heretofore undefeated in Big 12 play, intend to do.