The month of July rolls on with bits and pieces of news here and there involving Utah State athletics. For the latest reporting from Cache Valley Daily, check out the sports page to see stories about USU catching up to its Pac-12 peers in revenue, where the best 3-point shooters are in the Pac-12, and other recent stories.
Here are some of the other Aggie-related headlines from this week.
USU Men’s Basketball sells out season tickets, Football mini-plans on sale
For a second consecutive year, Utah State men’s basketball has sold out of its season tickets, and a long waitlist has formed as Aggie fans clamor for the chance to see the highly successful program continue its run into the Pac-12. The loss of Jerrod Calhoun and 11 players from last year’s roster has done little to derail the momentum built by Utah State, which has won at least 26 games in four consecutive seasons and qualified for seven NCAA Tournaments in the last eight years.
MJ Collins, Kolby King granted injunction for fifth season of eligibility
Former Utah State men’s basketball players MJ Collins and Kolby King were granted a preliminary injunction by an Ohio judge in their lawsuit against the NCAA which will enable both athletes, and 13 other plaintiffs in the case, to play a fifth season of college basketball. The lawsuit attacked the NCAA’s ruling that the new age-based eligibility rules — which go into effect this season and will grant current players who haven’t used a redshirt season an extra year of eligibility — would not apply to athletes whose eligibility was exhausted at the conclusion of the 2025-26 academic year.
Collins and King both plan to play for former USU head coach Jerrod Calhoun at Cincinnati.
USU Gymnastics hires new assistant coach
Gymnastics head coach Kristin White announced the hiring of Abby Mueller as a new assistant coach. Mueller’s primary role will be to coach floor routines.
“We are thrilled to welcome Abby to our Aggie Family,” said White in the team’s press release. “She was a former student-athlete in the Big 10 and SEC and brings a wealth of passion and competitiveness to our program. We look forward to her working with our student-athletes on the floor exercise. Her dance background and technical coaching will be a great asset to our team.”
Mueller is just one year removed from her own solid career as a gymnast. She competed for four seasons at Illinois and holds the program’s third-best floor score with a 9.950. She then went to Missouri in 2025, where she competed in vault and beam. After her graduation, she returned to Illinois, where she spent the 2026 season as an assistant coach.
Steven Ashworth kicks off Aggies in Summer League
NBA Summer League is ramping up today, with all teams gathering in Las Vegas now that the California and Salt Lake City summer league showcases are done. Six former Utah State players will be in action in Las Vegas, as detailed earlier this week in the inaugural Aggie Weekend Headlines article. But there was one former USU star who has already seen the court: Steven Ashworth.
Ashworth is playing for the Oklahoma City Thunder summer league team and appeared in two of the team’s three games in the Salt Lake City showcase. In the first game, he played 14 minutes and scored two points on 1-of-4 shooting while adding three assists and one rebound. In his second appearance, against the Utah Jazz, Ashworth tied for the game-high in scoring with 16 points in just 15 minutes played to go with two assists and one rebound.
