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LOGAN – Utah State men’s basketball wrapped up its summer practices this week with a pair of two-hour sessions on Monday and Thursday. Media were invited to an hour of each of those sessions each day to watch the team… Source link
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Lots of movement in the Utah State basketball world, though much of it involves former star players. Volleyball released its full non-conference schedule, with men’s basketball getting another peek into the news by officially announcing participation in one of two planned multi-team events for the Aggies. These are the mid-week headlines for Utah State athletics-related stories. USU Volleyball releases non-conference schedule The non-conference schedule for Utah State volleyball under first-year head coach Keith Smith will resemble many of those crafted by his predecessor. The Aggies are set to face an incredibly difficult 10-game slate that will feature last year’s national runner-up (Kentucky), with seven total teams on the list having participated in last year’s NCAA Tournament. Utah State will also spend most of its time on the road, with only three home games (UCLA, Utah and Utah Valley). The Aggies will host Utah in the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum on Sept. 11. Aug. 28 at Kentucky Aug. 29 vs Eastern Kentucky (Lexington, KY) Aug. 30 vs South Florida (Lexington, KY) Sept. 4 vs Iowa State (Santa Barbara, CA) Sept. 5 at UC Santa Barbara Sept. 9 vs UCLA Sept. 11 vs Utah Sept. 15 at Weber State Sept. 17 vs
This year’s Las Vegas Summer League wrapped up on Sunday with the championship game. Five former Utah State basketball players were participants, and they made a collective 22 appearances. But, to make a long story short, it’s hard to say any separated themselves from the competition, such as when Sam Merrill averaged 20.4 points per game in 2023. There were a few great individual performances, but nothing spectacular. Hopes for making the big leagues probably aren’t going to be particularly high in the short term. But that’s the nature of summer league. If you’re going to make the NBA, it’s going to be the long way around. Merrill and Neemias Queta each took the better part of half a decade to finally break through. Their fellow Aggies may need the same patience (and also luck) that both of those players showed. Drake Allen (Pistons) 5 Games Played / 17.8 minutes / 4.4 points / 2.2 rebounds / 2.2 assists / 1.4 steals / 0.4 blocks / 1.0 turnovers / 36.4 FG% / 0.0 3P% / 66.7 FT% Allen displayed the strengths and weaknesses of his game in the last couple of weeks. He’s a versatile player, capable of some scoring,
Is the new Pac-12 cursed when it comes to basketball? No fewer than three potential men’s basketball stars in the debut season of the new Pac-12 have either faced substantial injuries or left their team. First, San Diego State lost transfer win Nick Anderson to a torn ACL and meniscus. Then Boise State lost its top transfer acquisition, Ty Rodgers, to an undisclosed lower-body injury that required surgery. And just this week, Gonzaga lost its projected starting point guard, Mario Saint-Supery, to Europe. All three players would have been on the shortlist for a preseason All-Pac-12 team. Anderson, a transfer from Rice, averaged 15.5 points last year and would have been one of the best 3-point shooters in the conference. San Diego State needed a high-level scorer to replace, and also improve upon, what Miles Byrd and Reese Dixon-Waters brought on the wing. Brian Dutcher got that when he signed Anderson, but lost it during an innocuous drill in a May workout. Rodgers’ potential as a star was less certain, but there was an argument that he could be the top player in the preseason, if not the actual season. EvanMiya.com ranked him 142nd among all transfers this offseason, the
With every Pac-12 men’s basketball team having filled out its respective rosters to the point where no coach has more than one or two spots to fill, it’s an almost perfect time to make a first attempt at a power ranking for the upcoming 2026-27 season. And that’s exactly what we did on the Full Court Press on 106.9 FM, 1390 AM, The FAN. We’ll have maybe another check-in as the season gets closer, but there probably won’t be any major changes barring significant developments (like injuries or final roster additions). You can find a link to the whole show below, which is where we revealed our rankings and the detailed explanations behind each pick. For this written version, we’ll just go through each team in alphabetical order and show where we ranked them with a summary of our reasoning. At the bottom of the article, you’ll find the table that concisely summarizes our respective rankings in a more visually-friendly manner. For the reader’s information, the rankings included with these capsules for each team in returning production and transfer class will be relative to the rest of the conference (we were going to include high school recruiting rankings, but no
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
From career landmarks in the professional ranks, to high school signing classes and big fundraising goals, these are the top headlines involving Utah State sports from late last week and over the 4th of July weekend. Neemias Queta Signs Contract Extension Former Utah State star center Neemias Queta signed his first major contract extension in the NBA, agreeing to stay with the Boston Celtics on a four-year, $56 million deal. With this signing, the Portuguese center cemented his place in the league after spending _ years behind the scenes awaiting his chance to prove his basketball prowess. Originally taken in the 2021 NBA Draft with the 39th overall pick by the Sacramento Kings, Queta played under two-way contracts for the Kings, and later the Celtics, until April 2024. It was then that the Celtics, who had signed Queta after he was waived by the Kings in 2023, converted his two-way deal to a full contract. That paved the way for him to be a more consistent backup in the 2024-25 season, in which he appeared in a career-high 62 games. The 2025-26 season served as Queta’s breakout year. Cap constraints forced Boston to cut salary in the 2025 offseason, sending
Summer League games might end a few minutes earlier than usual this year. The NBA announced Thursday that the “one free throw rule” will be used at the summer leagues happening this month in Salt Lake City, Northern California and Las Vegas. The rule — designed to speed up play — means any foul that would typically result in the awarding of one, two or three free throws will instead result in a single free-throw attempt. That attempt will be worth the same total number of points as the free throws it replaces. The G League has used this rule since 2019-20. The rule doesn’t apply to the entire game. Standard free-throw rules — two shots for a two-shot foul, etc. — will be utilized for the last two minutes of fourth quarters and in all of overtime. It’s unclear if the one-free-throw rule will make it into NBA games, but Summer League has been a proving ground for eventual rule changes. The G League and Summer League have been used many times in recent years as testing labs for the league before bringing rule changes or amended policies into NBA games. Among those that started at those levels and
