Utah State blasts Stephen F. Austin by 30 in Cayman Islands title game – Cache Valley Daily
Utah State basketball. Photo by Triston Hartfiel. In the title game of the Cayman Islands Classic, Utah State was playing its third game in three nights against a Stephen F. Austin team playing a deep rotation and would theoretically be more well-rested, despite also facing the three-games-in-three-days gauntlet. That’s not what it looked like on the court at John Gray Gymnasium as the Aggies smoked the Lumberjacks 79-49, putting on a show in the second half. USU outscored SFA 47-23 in the second half after the first half was a much closer 32-26. “Our guys really did a great job being in the aggressors,” USU head coach Danny Sprinkle said. “We talked about that before the game and you have to throw the first punch. And then you can’t stop. Not against a team like Stephen F. Austin. And for our guys to play the 40 minutes that they did on the (third game in three nights) was really impressive.” With the Aggies’ stars, Darius Brown and Great Osobor, having played so many minutes the previous nights (69 for Osobor and 71 for Brown), USU needed many of its other rotation players to step up. And Utah State got just
