The top Cache Valley sports stories of 2022 – Cache Valley Daily
The Mountain Crest girls soccer team hoists the championship trophy after defeating Snow Canyon 3-0 in the 4A girls soccer championship on Saturday, Oct. 22, 2022. Photo by Robert K. Scott With 2022 on the way out, it’s time to visit the biggest moments of the year for Cache Valley sports. For some, it was a rough year filled with pothole after pothole while for others it was a year of historic success with monumental wins and records set. Here are the 10 biggest stories of the 2022 calendar year. We’ll go in roughly chronological order with these, though not completely as some don’t fit evenly with all the subject matter covered. Men’s basketball team hosts NIT game Under first-year head coach Ryan Odom, the Utah State men’s basketball team qualified for a postseason tournament for the fourth season in a row. And though it wasn’t an NCAA Tournament appearance as had happened for three straight years under Craig Smith, the fact the Aggies were able to host the opening round game of the tournament was a rare thing. The last time USU hosted an NIT game was 2004 when the Aggies took on Hawai’i. Unfortunately, having the game at