Aggies fly past Air Force on the wings of another dominant 3-point shooting day | Sports
Long-distance dominance led Utah State to a second straight lopsided victory. The Aggies made 16 threes — matching their total from Wednesday’s win over Nevada — to claim an 87-58 W on the road against Air Force. According to Basketball Reference’s Stathead database, it’s the first time Utah State has ever hit 16 threes in back-to-back games (and only the eighth time ever in program history). The Aggies have also shot at least 37 percent in all of their previous five games and have eclipsed 50 percent in three of their last four. “I think as we get further and further on in the season we’re used to spacing, where each other is going to be, knowing where our shooters are and being able to make that extra passes to each other,” USU center Isaac Johnson said. “I don’t think that it was something that we necessarily prepared for specifically, but it’s something that we’re always ready for, because we know that with the type of players that we have, the type of space we can create, that they’re going to be there. So we just got to be ready to step up and take them when they’re there.” The