\u2022 Utah State resumes its season and wraps up the 2025 calendar year on Tuesday, Dec. 30, with a Mountain West contest at Fresno State.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2022 The Aggies enter the contest 10-1. This is tied for the best 11-game start in program history, and is 12th time in program history USU has opened a year 10-1 or better. It’s also the fourth-straight 10-1 or better start for the team.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2022 Utah State made a statement in its Mountain West opener, annihilating Colorado State 100-58 on Dec. 20. This was the third-largest margin of victory in a MW game in program history, and was CSU’s worst loss since 2010.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2022 Utah State currently ranks No. 18 in the NET Rankings. The Aggies are the highest-ranked MW squad and are one of eight teams from the league in the top-100. USU is also receiving votes in both the AP Poll and USA Today Coaches Poll. \u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2022 Senior guard\u00a0MJ Collins Jr.<\/a>\u00a0ranks 30th in the nation this season with 20.1 points per game, as he’s scored 20-plus points in six of 11 games this year. He also ranks ninth nationally in 3-point percentage at 50.0 percent.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u2022 As a team, Utah State currently ranks eighth in the NCAA in steals, averaging 10.7 per contest. The duo of\u00a0Mason Falslev<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Drake Allen<\/a>\u00a0each rank among the nation’s leaders in takeaways \u2014\u00a0Falslev\u00a0ranking 11th in the country with 2.73 steals per contest,\u00a0Allen\u00a0ranking 24th with 2.40.<\/p>\n \u2022 Utah State currently ranks in the top 75 in the nation in several major statistical categories, including steals (8th – 10.7), field goal percentage (11th – .521), turnovers forced (15th – 16.45), scoring margin (20th – +19.2), turnover margin (22nd – +4.4), 3-point field goal percentage (22nd – .386), assists (23rd – 18.9), winning percentage (27th – .909), fastbreak points (32nd – 16.91), scoring defense (51st – 66.7), scoring offense (53rd – 85.9), assist\/turnover ratio (54th – 1.56), rebound margin (60th – +6.6), 3-point field goal percentage defense (65th – .406), and bench points (71st – 30.27).<\/p>\n \u2022 Saturday’s game will be the 75th all-time matchup between Utah State and Fresno State, the ninth-most played rivalry in USU program history. The Aggies lead the all-time series 48-26, including a 16-17 record on the road. USU has won 13 of the past 14 matchups.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2022 Utah State resumes its season and wraps up the 2025 calendar year on Tuesday, Dec. 30, with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-110693","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-fresno","9":"tag-fresno-headlines","10":"tag-fresno-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}