Don't know if anybody else noticed, but watching the Utes play San Diego State in the championship game of the Mountain West Conference tournament, something was just not right. Something was different. Something was missing.

Then, it hit me.

Forward Carlon Brown was playing without his trademark tight lycra undershirt -- though it was hardly his choice. Having thrown his game clothes into the team laundry after the win over Wyoming in the semifinals, Brown discovered his white undershirt missing when his uniform was returned.

"So I came to the game, and I had to go bare" under his jersey, he said. "I had no white socks, either. I don't know if you noticed, I had black socks on, too."

Turned out, Brown enjoyed a pretty good game, scoring 10 points with five rebounds and three steals in the 52-50 victory. But that's not enough to get him to keep playing without an undershirt. He said he expects to wear the looser one that he owns -- he prefers the tighter version, of course -- when the Utes meet Arizona in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, since the Utes are seeded higher and again will be wearing their home white jerseys.