Utah State head coach Danny Sprinkle looks on during overtime of an NCAA college basketball game against Fresno State in the quarterfinals of the Mountain West tournament Thursday, March 14, 2024, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Ian Maule) LOGAN, Utah – No. 18 Utah State men’s basketball head coach Danny Sprinkle has been named a 2024 Werner Ladder Naismith Men’s Coach of the Year semifinalist, it was announced on Friday by the Atlanta Tipoff Club. Sprinkle led a Utah State squad that returned zero points and welcomed 13 newcomers to its first-ever outright Mountain West regular season title. The Aggies have been ranked in the AP Poll eight times this season, which is the second-most in program history. Utah State’s 27 wins are tied with the 2009-10 team for the sixth-most in school history. USU’s 14-4 record in Mountain West play was its third best in its 11 years in the conference trailing the 2018-19 team that went 15-3 and the 2020-21 team that went 15-4. Those 27 wins by Sprinkle are the second-most in the nation this season under a head coach in his first year at the school, trailing McNeese’s Will Wade and the second-most by a first-year head coach in school history.