Big picture: USU should never have scented this loss. The probability of even playing in the NCAAs at this point last year were next to nothing.
What
@USUBasketball
accomplished this year is miraculous. One of the best fan experiences I've ever had. Love this team.
It's looking incredibly possible that CSU @ USU on the 6th is going to be a 13-1 Aggie team against a 13-1 Rams team, with both potentially in the top 25 of NET.
The Spectrum has not had that kind of a matchup in a while.
I got my tickets 2 months ago 😈
I could not draw up a better experience.
Aggies get maybe the biggest victory in years.
Utah gets demolished.
Byu loses their BIG 12 Home opener.
Our net opponents did well today.
Wow wow wow wow wow.
Picked to finish 8th. Lost our glue starting PG mid season.
Finished tied for 2nd in the regular season, 2nd in the conference tourney, with an at large bid coming.
This team has been a joy to watch this season, and they've done some great things.
Stat of the Night: New Mexico's starting center, Carlton Bragg, Karl Malone Forward of the Year Watch List Member, Former McDonald's All American, and touted 5 star recruit? DIDN'T EVEN ATTEMPT A SHOT TONIGHT.
And who was guarding him all game?
A late signee Portugese player
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Aubin Gateretse is an ultra-efficient forward with the athleticism and fluidity to excel in Jerrod Calhoun's systems. Foul trouble is a concern, but his potential is massive. Scouting report:
Will Nevada be taking down their banner from 2017 when they had the 11th hardest SOS and got the 1 seed?
SDSU has regular season championships with the 8, 9, and 10th ranked in-conference SOS in the past decade.
The absolutely golden moment this is for Aggie fans.
If Pope kills it at Kentucky? Sad byu fans.
If Pope is mediocre? Sad byu fans.
If he's terrible? Sad byu fans.
AND they have to find someone to fill that slot LATE in this off season.
I'm just grinning.
This garbage about MWC conference SOS is myopic and anyone arguing it has zero historical view.
According to KenPom, the regular season MWC champs have had the 8th or lower conference SOS 7 out of the last 10 years, and only 1 time has it been in the top 50% in conference.
I cannot express how good
@USUCoachSprink
is in interview. Giving credit and compliments to specific players. Open acknowledgement of issues. Laying out adjustments to be made. Frank honesty. That's the kind of guy you want to play for as a player.
@ByCommonConsent
The fact that PDF's are so notoriously hard to convert to documents, and the fact that Adobe has such an iron grip on the PDF conversion and editing market is bull s***
13-5 foul disparity.
I'm fine with 13 on us. But you absolutely cannot tell me that between the over the backs and the amount of physicality on the drives there were only 5 on Purdue.
Hey
@taxslayerbowl
the Utah State Aggies are ready to go. Storylines galore. Leading receiver in the nation. One kickoff td away from an all time record. Potential national coach of the year. Massive program turn around.
If
@USUFootball
is listening, might be worth getting these kids out on the court during a timeout during a basketball game soon so people can express how excited they are in person
The Ledee/Osobor matchup after today's performances by both is going to be NUTS.
Hey
@MountainWest
do not let the refs keep us from watching what that game should be
Biggest takeaways for me?
Falslev brings an energy and driving ability that is very valuable to our offensive flow and adjusting to not having him on the floor was tough.
Jackson's game is different, but boy did it fill a void.
@rensole
@GameStop
Technically a game about being incredibly persistent over and over while a giant scary man with lots of power tells you that it's pointless and you'll never succeed until you've gathered enough resources to beat him at his own game.........
The fact that I've got 2
@USUBasketball
players absolutely blowing up on the NBA scene right now is so much damn fun.
Queta just dominated. 14/12 double double for the second off his career.
Hey
@USUAthletics
please just keep
@ScottyGZone
announcing for MWNetwork broadcasts. The amount of times I had to hear byu facts all night drastically affected my experience tonight
I'll say this. If Sprinkle leaves this year, it's because the money is so far beyond what we could match.
There will never be more entries in the "pro's" column than what he has here. All players you brought here, the west's best arena and crowd, institutional support.
.
@smerrill05
to the 3 Point contest was just featured in the intro and first section of
@SportsCenter
reporting on today's game.
"
@spidadmitchell
wants him in the 3 point contest and we can see every reason why."
This is absolutely crazy.
I cannot stress how good the SC scout was. They went back to SUU and found the screen rejections. They limited our drivers on defense. They swarmed Osobor. They limited our assists. And they made the shots available to them.
And the Aggies still won.
I cannot describe the sense of relief I feel of not needing to be worried about hearing our name on Sunday.
After decades of sweating any time we lost in the tourney, Sprinkle and this team have raised our bar in a shocking and really cool way.
Now you have to win.
Just bought tickets for Tuesday's
@USUBasketball
game in Ft. Collins. I'll be busting out of rehearsal fast, and will likely be late. But this team deserves the support, and I deserve to see them live at least once this season.
Hey as a reminder to anyone who needs a pick me up byu blew a 17 point lead on ESPN and there's ways to access the replay and you can just watch them implode you're welcome
Queta finishes with 19/9/6 in 19 minutes.
He's going to have his presence felt on a potential championship run.
I cannot wait for 100% of
@USUBasketball
players on contract in the NBA to have rings.
@YourAnonCentral
@aravosis
Citizens in these areas should consider this a direct threat on their lives and are justified in responding with deadly force to defend themselves.
Outside perspective, Gonzaga has had the last place SOS in the WCC 8 of the last 10 years. We gonna point and claim that their success is an illusion?
Win your home games. Compete in road games. No bad losses.
If your team can't claim all 3, they don't deserve first place.
41-3 in the last 3 quarters.
That's enough of a reversal to make me not care about the 1st one.
They caught us with gimmick. It worked for 15 minutes.
Great win
@USUFootball
Not sure the conference got this right.
But the only competition plays for
@USUBasketball
too 😈
Brown/Osobor Co-POY in my heart.
Absolutely amazing season
Alright. Biggest complaint of the night.
The WCC scoreboard overlay on this broadcast is TERRIBLE. Both team's scores blink whenever either team scores, so I constantly think they've miscredited the points.
And no shot clock display.
Hey Aggie Fans? This team has the same record right now that we did through this point last year, and we were coming off a 30 point loss to Nevada. We know what last season became.
Getting the injured back to full strength is paramount. Things will keep going from there.
A reminder for myself as much as anyone.
USU should have had the ball and the lead in the final minute against projected top 100 opponent in a game where we shot 33.8% from the field, in the first game of playing our actual full roster.
We're going to be good this year.
Some perspective on
@usuHURD
Their sections on Saturday seat just over 1000. They look to have been about 75% full.
That means 750 students made enough noise that it was noted by people in attendance, and over the broadcast.
That's only ~17% of a full Spectrum allotment.
This is where
@USUBasketball
should be. They are ranked 18th in the net and should be a five seed. The responses of "but those losses" and "not enough wins" are already factored into that ranking. And they're still 18.
I want to something that motivated me this last year.
The last 2 years have had some incredible moments, and also some of the lowest lows I've ever experienced.
Without itemizing things, I got thru things in October in pretty bad shape in just about every way.
Fresno St's head coach glances up at the scoreboard.
4 minutes into the first quarter.
His defense just recovered a ridiculous fumble for a scoop and score.
17-0
So why is the entire
@usuHURD
laughing like super villains and screaming "YOU FOOL!" and him?
Queta and Merrill continue to blow past 1.0 points per minute. Queta is doing it with rebounds as well.
@celtics
and
@cavs
are getting deep production from former champions with
@USUBasketball
Rankings Comparison!
@USUBasketball
at 18 in the net NET, 19 in Kenpom.
Missouri is 42 in NET, 51 in Kenpom.
USU's defense has taken huge steps forward in the last month.
This feels like a GOOD matchup.
Purdue had 10 fouls called on them the entire game. 40 minutes of basketball.
With 14 minutes left in the first half, you watched our players stop trying to draw contact on offense, and back off physically on defense. Once they made that adjustment it was game over.