It might have been hard to notice, there in between all of the Shaun Green three-pointers and defensive stops. But the Utes improved in yet another area in their 72-52 victory over the Weber State Wildcats last night:

Turnovers.

The Utes committed a season-low 11, continuing a downward trend from the season-high of 20 they committed in the opener against South Carolina Upstate. In between, they committed 14 against overmatched High Point, 18 against Washington and 13 against Santa Clara.

"Turnovers are a lack of focus and a lack of urgency," coach Jim Boylen said. "And I think we're doing a better job of being more focused and more urgent. Are we going to turn the ball over some games more than others? Yeah. Are we going to play against different styles of teams, and defenses? Yeah."

But still, fewer is always better.

Yet Boylen decided against instituting a specific goal for turnovers the way former coach Ray Giacoletti did. Giacoletti wanted his team to commit 12 or fewer turnovers per game, though the Utes wound up averaging 14.6 last season.

But Boylen believes it would have been meaningless to attempt to define a proper turnover goal, because "I didn't have any data to analyze it."

"We've got a more detailed, execution-style offense, so we're going to have a few more turnovers," he said. "We run more than we did last year, so we're going to have a few more turnovers. But I think the positives of those things outweigh the negatives. In time, our turnovers ... should come down, and it looks like they're trending down."

Guard Lawrence Borha easily is the most sure-handed of the Utes so far, having committed just three turnovers in 25.6 minutes per game -- third-highest on the team.