SALT LAKE CITY – Utah women's basketball travels to Moraga, Calif. for the Hilton Concord Thanksgiving Classic. The Utes face Charlotte Friday at 1 p.m. and St. Mary's Saturday at 3 p.m.
 
The Utes opened the season 3-0 for the second consecutive season under head coach Lynne Roberts. Junior forward Emily Potter leads Utah with 17.3 points, 8.7 rebounds and 3.0 blockers per game.
 
Game Coverage: Live stats will be available at utahutes.com. You can listen to the game on ESPN700 with Tyson Ewing.
 
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Record Watch: Junior forward Emily Potter is one block away from moving into third all-time in career blocks. Potter has 135 blocks and will pass Taryn Wicijowski (2009-15) with her next block.
 
Previous Action: The University of Utah women's basketball defeated in-state rival Utah Valley 100-52 Saturday evening in the Jon M. Huntsman Center. Utah's (3-0, 0-0 Pac-12) bench tallied more than half of the team's points with 53. Junior wing Daneesha Provo lead the Utes with 18 points while pulling down six rebounds in 20 minutes of action. Junior guard Tilar Clark saw her first action as a Ute scoring eight points and grabbing six rebounds with two blocked shots. Freshman guard Kiana Moore saw her best offensive game of the season with 15 points including three 3-pointers.
 
Utes Picked Eighth: The Utah women's basketball team has been picked eighth in the 2016-17 Pac-12 women's basketball preseason poll, announced by the league office on Thursday at the Pac-12 Women's Basketball Media Day. The Utes, who garnered 52 points, are coming off an 18-15 season and a trip to the third round of the WNIT a year ago. Head coach Lynne Roberts, who is entering her second year, led Utah to the program's first winning season since 2012-13 and doubled the number of Pac-12 wins from the previous year by going 8-10 in league play. Among the four starters returning for Utah are junior center Emily Potter, who earned All-Pac-12 recognition last season, and senior wing Paige Crozon.

Under Roberts: The Utes, who garnered 52 points, are coming off an 18-15 season and a trip to the third round of the WNIT a year ago. Lynne Roberts led Utah to the program's first winning season since 2012-13 and doubled the number of Pac-12 wins from the previous year by going 8-10 in league play. The Utes scored 2,266 points, which is fourth in school history. Utah was fifth in the Pac-12 in scoring with 68.7 points per game, a 13.8 point-per-game improvement from the 2014-15 team that finished last in the Pac-12 (54.9 ppg). Roberts' up-tempo style of play saw the Utes make 14 3-point field goals in their WNIT first-round victory over Montana on Mar. 18, 2016, which is the second-highest total in school history. Utah made rebounding a priority during its first season under Roberts. The club grabbed 1,399 rebounds, which is the third most in school history. The Utes hauled in 970 defensive rebounds, which stands second in the Utah record book.