Utes’ NIT success has turned initial postseason disappointment into something a little more special

Utah’s season felt like it had been dealt a final blow two weeks ago in the Pac-12 Tournament. The Utes’ NCAA Tournament hopes, which had grown increasingly realistic, all of a sudden popped like a balloon. However, they have managed to let what happened in Las Vegas stay right there. Utah has continued to make postseason memories, though not in the setting it had initially envisioned, by earning a spot in the NIT semifinals at Madison Square Garden in New York next week. The program