With an almost entirely new group alongside a brand new coach in Alex Jensen , this season is bound to be a learning process, especially in the early going, for the University of Utah basketball team.

For the Runnin’ Utes, who improved to 4-0 with an 85-79 victory over Sam Houston Saturday at the Huntsman Center, the night’s lesson was “How to hang on for dear life after blowing a 20-point second-half lead.”

Earlier this season the Utes had done the opposite, coming from behind to beat Weber State in overtime with an exciting comeback.

This time, the Utes had to sweat it out in the final minute when the Bearkats almost turned a certain loss into an unlikely victory.

“It was a great lesson to learn,” Jensen said. “We got up by 20 and we kind of let up a little bit and started to think

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