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Utah Pulls Out of Northridge Plans

By STEVE HENSON
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Days after extending an offer to play a home-and-home men’s basketball series with Cal State Northridge beginning next season, Utah backed out.

The Utes, a perennial power, would have been the most prominent team to play at Northridge.

After agreeing on dates for the series with Utah coaches, Matador associate head coach Mike Johnson mailed off a contract. The Utes replied this week, but it wasn’t the answer Northridge was expecting.

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Utah will play in the Wooden Classic at UCLA next season and assistant Donny Daniels said it doesn’t make sense for the Utes to make two trips to Southern California.

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Steve Henson

Steve Henson is a reporter with the Fast Break sports team at the Los Angeles Times. He previously served as an assistant editor and reporter in the Sports department. Henson was a leader in digital-only newsrooms from 2007-19 as a senior editor and columnist at Yahoo Sports and as senior editor at the USA Today Sports Media Group. This is his second stint at The Times, having covered the Dodgers and UCLA as well as doing enterprise, investigative and features writing from 1985-2007. Henson was awarded first place in sports features in 2021 by the L.A. Press Club and has been honored several times by the Associated Press Sports Editors (APSE) and also by the California News Publishers Assn., the Football Writers Assn. of America and U.S. Basketball Writers Assn.

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