Utah Tech closed out the home portion of its 2024-25 regular season slate on the wrong side of a 74-42 loss to WAC-leading Grand Canyon on Senior Night Thursday inside the Burns Arena.

How it happened 
Despite seven first quarter turnovers, the Trailblazers (5-23/1-14 WAC) managed to keep pace with the Lopes in the opening 10 minutes of play.
 
However that all changed in an instant in the early moments of the second quarter. GCU (28-2/15-0 WAC) scored seven-unanswered points in the first 52 seconds of the frame, which turned a 15-10 Lopes' first-quarter lead into a 22-10 advantage.
 
GCU led by as many as 20 points with under two minutes to play until halftime, but a Brie Crittendon free throw and four-straight Paige Cofer points gave Utah Tech a little bit of life late as the Blazers trimmed the deficit to 37-22 with 35 seconds on the clock.
 
Grand Canyon quelled the mini Trailblazer run on its final possession with an Alyssa Durazo-Frescas 3-pointer just before the halftime horn as the Lopes retreated to the locker room with a 40-22 cushion.
 
GCU took command with a 9-0 spurt to open the second half, and held Utah Tech scoreless for the first six-plus minutes of the third quarter. The Trailblazers could not recover from that drought as the Lopes put it on cruise control the rest of way to notch the road win.
 
Numbers to know
Senior Emily Isaacson, making the final home start of her brilliant career, paced Utah Tech with 11 points and a team-high three 3-pointers. Isaacson also moved into third place on Utah Tech's career points list (1,163) and became the fourth player in the program's NCAA era with 400 career made field goals on a 3-pointer to open the scoring in the fourth quarter. 
 
Cofer and Crittendon each finished with eight points apiece, while Crittendon added a team-high seven rebounds to her stat line. 

Utah Tech wound up shooting 30.8 percent from both the floor (12-of-39) and the perimeter (8-of-26), while the Trailblazers went 10-of-15 (.667) at the foul line.
 
Durazo-Frescas and Tiarra Brown co-led GCU with 14 points apiece. The Lopes shot 47.5 percent (28-of-59) on the night, though Utah Tech limited GCU to just 5-of-19 (.263) from beyond the arc. Grand Canyon also outrebounded the Blazers by a 37-27 count. 
 
Up Next
Utah Tech heads to the "Emerald City" this Saturday for its 2024-25 regular season finale at Seattle U. Tip-off inside the Redhawk Center is set for 2 p.m. (MT).