LOGAN, Utah – Utah State head men’s basketball coach Jerrod Calhoun announced on Monday that the team will participate in a foreign tour in Italy and Croatia from August 9-19. The tour will include stops in Rome and Florence, Italy, and Split and Dubrovnik, Croatia, and will pit the Aggies against teams from across Europe. “This trip is a great opportunity for our team, both on and off the court,” Calhoun said. “It’s a chance for us to spend some quality time together and really to speed up the bonding process. We’re looking forward to being able to take this trip as a team and to get a jump start on the season.” The tour will feature three games against international competition. USU will first face Stella Azzurra of Rome’s Serie B on Monday, Aug. 12, in Rome. On Friday, Aug. 16, in Split, the Aggies will face KK Split of the Croatian League. The final game of the tour will be against KK Podgorica of Montenegro’s ABA League. All Utah State players will be eligible to compete, including each of the team’s nine incoming newcomers. The tour is organized by Global Sports & Events, an organization which specializes in international

More so than perhaps any other team, the question over what kind of lineups we’ll see from Utah State head basketball coach Jerrod Calhoun is an interesting thought exercise. It goes beyond just “who will start” (though that’s also a big question in some areas) and into a question of how will Calhoun craft lineups that don’t have weak points in them given the team he constructed this offseason. The complexity of this topic is very much a consequence of how Calhoun built the roster. With so many spots opened up by players transferring out, Calhoun obviously had the chance to do virtually whatever he wanted (as long as he could convince the players he wanted to come to Logan) so what he has is presumably what he wanted. Ranking the transfer classes of Mountain West men’s basketball teams So what exactly does Calhoun have? That’s the question that needs to be answered first here. What types of players are on the roster and what kinds of roles can each player do? So, before going too far, we’ll be exploring exactly that. Traditionally you have five positions, the point guard, shooting guard, small forward, power forward and center. Those labels

The annual Las Vegas Summer League begins competition today and three former Utah State men’s basketball players, Darius Brown, Neemias Queta and Taylor Funk, are on rosters among all 30 clubs participating in the exhibition tournament. Brown is signed with the Cleveland Cavaliers, Queta with the Boston Celtics and Funk is on the Washington Wizards. For Funk and Queta, this will be a return to the summer league, though neither have played summer games with their current respective teams. Queta played in three summer leagues with the Sacrament Kings, playing 17 total games and averaging 9.1 points, 6.2 rebounds 1.5 blocks and 1.3 assists in 21.7 minutes per game. His fourth appearance in the summer festivities, now with Boston, comes after he signed a multi-year contract with Boston, an upgrade over the two-way deals Queta had been signed on every year since being drafted in 2021.  Neemias Queta re-signs with Boston Celtics on multi-year contract Funk spent last summer with the Miami Heat, appearing in just four games and scoring a total of six points on 26.3 percent shooting. Prior to the NBA regular season the Heat waived Funk who then signed with Washington. Funk then played the entire year