- A 6-foot-2 Salt Lake City forward and BYU transfer, Blanck gives the Utes a player page that connects hometown identity, frontcourt role, and rivalry texture.
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Alyssa Blanck, a 6-foot-2 redshirt junior forward from Salt Lake City, is listed on the Utah Women's Basketball 2025-26 roster after transferring in from BYU. Utah's February 2026 game notes carry her through the heart of the Big 12 schedule, including the Oklahoma State home game and the regular-season Holy War against the Cougars.
The transfer route gives Utah a Salt Lake City native on its frontcourt depth chart and a BYU-to-Utah arc that the rivalry's modern conference setting now allows. Both schools sit inside the Big 12 women's basketball league, and the regular-season matchup is on Utah's home calendar.
The roster line
The official Utah roster supplies the verified pieces of Blanck's profile: class, position, height, and Salt Lake City hometown. She is a 6-foot-2 forward — Big 12 women's basketball size — with the redshirt-junior class status that gives her two seasons of eligibility ahead.
Utah lists her among the program's returning frontcourt options for 2025-26 after she worked into the rotation following the transfer. Frontcourt depth has been a staple of Utah's identity under the program's recent coaching tenure, and the roster page places Blanck inside that group rather than as a specialty addition.
The height on her profile matters for the Big 12 matchup grid. The league's top programs run with frontcourts in the 6-foot-2 to 6-foot-4 range, and Blanck's measurable lets Utah keep its size advantage when it goes to a three-forward look.
The BYU-to-Utah transfer
Blanck began her college career at BYU before entering the women's basketball transfer portal and signing with the Utes. The move crosses the loudest line in Utah's college sports map — BYU to the U — without leaving the city; her high school, the BYU campus, and the Utah campus all sit within an hour's drive of each other.
The conference structure changed the meaning of that move. When Utah was in the Pac-12 and BYU was independent, a player crossing between the two programs left one league for another. With both schools now in the Big 12, the transfer simply changes one Big 12 roster for another. Blanck plays two regular-season games against her old program every year now: one in Provo, one in Salt Lake City.
She is one of a small handful of athletes who have made the BYU-to-Utah move in any sport during the rivalry's modern era. The women's basketball version of that route is even rarer.
The 2025-26 schedule context
Utah opens its Big 12 portion of the schedule in early January and runs through early March. The Utes' February 2026 stretch — captured in the program's official game notes — included Oklahoma State at the Jon M. Huntsman Center and the home Holy War against BYU.
Utah's game notes list Blanck on the active roster for both. The Oklahoma State matchup was a top-half Big 12 contest. The BYU game ran inside the same week and drew the larger crowd that the Holy War now attracts in its Big 12 setting.
Utah's official athletics site is the source for individual production through the conference run — minutes, rebounds, scoring contributions, and defensive matchups appear in each box score and weekly game-note packet. The Big 12 also posts league-wide statistical leaders weekly, which is where a player like Blanck would show up if she breaks into the conference's top-15 rebounding lists.
The Utes' home arena is the Huntsman Center on the U of U campus. The official photo released after the February UCF game placed Blanck on the floor inside that building. Salt Lake City native, Salt Lake City college, Salt Lake City home court — the geography is consistent end-to-end.
Big 12 women's basketball in its second year
Utah women's basketball is in its second year of Big 12 membership in 2025-26. The Utes joined from the Pac-12 in the same conference realignment cycle that moved BYU, Arizona, Arizona State, and Colorado into the league.
The early Big 12 schedule has been a measuring stick for the Utah program. Big 12 home games carry a different television footprint than Pac-12 games did, and the conference's top-end teams — Baylor, Kansas State, TCU, Texas — give the schedule a different rhythm than the West Coast slate Utah used to play. Blanck's transfer landed inside that adjustment year, which makes her frontcourt depth a structural fit rather than a depth experiment.
The Utes' roster construction for 2025-26 leans on returners around the new transfers, and Blanck's hometown line gives the program a Salt Lake City face inside the rotation that the program can lean on for community engagement around the Big 12 schedule.
What's next
The Big 12 women's basketball tournament tips off in early March in Kansas City. Utah's seeding will depend on the closing weeks of the conference schedule, and the program's official site will post each remaining recap with full box scores.
After the conference tournament, the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament selection show follows in mid-March. Utah's at-large case depends on its conference finish and its NET ranking; the program has been on the bubble end of the league's NCAA picture in recent years.
For Blanck personally, the next concrete update points are her individual minutes, rebounds, and scoring lines in each remaining game on the Big 12 schedule. Each Utah recap on the official site adds another data point. After the conference tournament, the offseason calendar opens — and with two years of eligibility remaining on her redshirt-junior status, Blanck has the longest window of any senior-aged player in Utah's frontcourt rotation.
