Utah State escapes disaster, holds off late Wyoming rally | Sports
As the clock ticked under three minutes to play, Utah State’s road game in Laramie against the Wyoming Cowboys could hardly be going better. Sure, the home team had shot above-average from three and made life very difficult for the visiting Aggies in the first 37 minutes. But USU had made 12 of its last 14 field goal attempts and were leading by 11 points, 78-67. However, much like Wyoming had done all night, every haymaker by the Mountain West’s first-place team was answered in full. And when MJ Collins missed a free throw with 13 seconds, the Cowboys sprinted down the court with a chance for a game-winning shot that came up just short. That allowed Utah State to escape “Laradise” with an 85-83 win in a game which they were favored to win by nearly double digits. “I haven’t watched the tape so I don’t want to [be] quick to judge, but [we were] just very discombobulated,” USU head coach Jerrod Calhoun said of the final minutes. “As the momentum shifted our attention to detail and our understanding [of] time, score, different things, were not very good.” While the final three minutes could be a story unto itself,
