Strong second half pushes Utah State past ETSU in non-conference finale – Cache Valley Daily
LOGAN – Through the first 10 minutes of Utah State’s 80-65 win over East Tennessee State, the Aggies looked to be as out-of-sorts on offense as they had been against San Francisco — a game where USU ended up with its worst offensive output by far, and a season-low 54 points. The Aggies somehow won that game against San Francisco anyway, but that 54-53 game was expected to be close. USU walked onto the court at the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum on Friday as 17.5-point favorites over the visiting Bucs. Yet with 9:58 left to play in the opening half, Utah State found itself trailing ETSU 17-14. As a team, the Aggies had shot 3 of 13 from the field including six straight misses at that moment in time. A saving grace for Utah State, and the reason such a cold-shooting night hadn’t resulted in a larger deficit, was the Buccaneers own shooting woes, having gone a mediocre 6 of 14 from the field to that point themselves. But there were dangerous signs as ETSU forward Jaden Seymour was providing a reliable scoring punch, having accounted for 13 of the Bucs points to that moment in the game (and would