Sprinkle keeps asking more from his upstart Aggies, and they’ll need it in the coming weeks – Cache Valley Daily
Utah State head coach Danny Sprinkle instructs his team against the UNLV during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Saturday, Jan. 13, 2024, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Ian Maule) LOGAN — The basketball world is running out of superlatives to describe the complete insanity that is Utah State’s basketball season. Sitting at 19-2 and ranking 17th in the AP and Coaches polls despite the oft-referenced complete roster rebuild over the summer, the Aggies aren’t just a feel-good story. They are now a force in the Mountain West the rest of the teams, most of whom were picked to finish better than the currently first-place Aggies, must reckon with. Sprinkle can hardly believe his own team’s success and re-iterated his feelings to the media on Thursday regarding how rare this type season is given what precipitated it. “It’s probably a bad standard that we’re setting for a lot of ADs out there because they’re going to think that a lot of teams can do this,” Sprinkle said Thursday morning. “If there was a hundred teams that had to do what we did, three or four of them are going to win at the level that we’ve won so