Nobody's getting benched. Coach Jim Boylen isn't shuffling the lineup, he said, or making any drastic changes after an embarrassing season-opening loss to a Division II team.

The Utes are just trying to get better against UW-Green Bay tonight.

"We need to get better at everything we do," Boylen said. "We need to understand time, score and situation better. We need to pick each other up better, and we need to communicate better."

Intriguingly, Boylen said he would "rather not say" whether there was anything he saw on the game film that altered his view of the loss to Southwest Baptist, and mocked the notion that he was trying to avoid being overly hard on his players.

"Were you at practice yesterday?" he asked a reporter. "Were you in the film session, the other day?"

Still, he acknowledged that his team's guard play was "not real good," and that he was particularly disappointed in the three-pointers the Utes allowed in transition. "For the most part," though, he said Southwest Baptist simply made shots over the Utes.

"I'm disappointed we lost, but I'm not discouraged on where we're going," he said. "I don't know how many teams in the country are going to win, when you give up 16 made threes."

The Utes are expecting an up-tempo UW-Green Bay team to challenge them tonight, Boylen and his players said, and expect to be ready for an experienced team that has plenty of offensive talent.

"It's a matter of us playing hard," forward Carlon Brown said. "And if we play hard, we can get the job done, and we're all looking forward to bouncing back."