Utah basketball coach Craig Smith is ready to start a new chapter with the Runnin’ Utes
Instead, it’d be a drama, a story of turnover, churn and offseason moves that have defined where college basketball is going and how much change can occur in the blink of an eye.— to their roster and six new assistants to the coaching staff. That’s 16 new faces in total, more turnover than Smith has had at any point since he took the Utah job in 2021.
Alongside the changes to his staff, Smith is leading Utah into a new conference in the Big 12. For decades it has been widely considered as the best basketball conference in the NCAA. Last season a Big 12 record and nation-tying eight conference teams made the 64-team NCAA Tournament. He wants to approach every day the same way, with the same standards and intensity he had when he was first hired.
He continued: “This is just my mentality. Every practice that I go into, I try to coach the team like it’s like the last practice that I’ll ever have. Every game that we play, I coach that game with everything I’ve got, and it’s never perfect. … I don’t look at it any differently.”He also wants to leverage his team’s size, height and versatility on defense. There are only four players on the team that aren’t taller than 6-foot-3.
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