Utah State rallies to beat Loyola Marymount, remain undefeated – Cache Valley Daily
FILE PHOTO: Max Shulga drives with the ball against Trey Edmonds from Utah Tech. Photo by Lorene Hale LAS VEGAS – Utah State may have won by double digits, 79-67, over Loyola Marymount late Saturday evening/Sunday morning in Las Vegas, but late in the first half it wasn’t looking like the Aggies would take home its eighth straight win to start the year. With 7:19 left in the first half, Lions guard Cam Shelton drained a second straight 3-pointer to put his team up 27-19 over the Aggies and giving him 16 points just under 13 minutes into the game. A mere 58 seconds later Shelton’s teammates, Justin Ahrens and Keli Leaupepe, had added five more points to give LMU its largest lead of the game, 32-19. USU head coach Ryan Odom had no choice but to call timeout. “None of us were happy at that point,” Odom said. “We weren’t playing our style of basketball. We’re taking shots at the rim that were very unlike us, just kind of hoping that the shot would go in, flipping it up like it didn’t really mean much. And we wasted some opportunities there and you can’t do that.” Shelton in particular
