Hall of Fame
KEVIN NIXON
Hometown: Sacramento, Calif.
Sports: Men's Basketball
Years: 1985-88
One of the most versatile guardline performers in Utah State basketball history, Kevin Nixon earned first-team All-Pacific Coast Athletic Association (PCAA) honors following his senior season in 1988 as he averaged 16.0 points, 5.9 assists, 5.6 rebounds and 2.5 steals per game, while shooting 50.9 percent (188-of-369) from the floor. Nixon, who was named the team's Most Valuable Player for the second-straight season as a senior, was also named to the PCAA All-Tournament Team that year after the Aggies won their first-ever PCAA Tournament championship and received the school's first-ever automatic berth into the NCAA Tournament. USU finished the season with a 21-10 record, its most wins in 18 seasons. Nixon also earned second-team honors from the PCAA following his junior season and was named the team's Most Valuable Player after averaging 18.2 points, 4.6 rebounds, 3.7 assists and 1.8 steals per game, while shooting 52.5 percent (199-of-379) from the field. In fact, Nixon led USU in assists for three straight seasons (1985-88), as he averaged 3.9 per game during his sophomore season, to go along with leading the team in steals as both a junior and senior. Nixon, who was the first guard in school history to earn first-team all-PCAA honors, concluded his career ranking seventh all-time in scoring with 1,456 points, the most-ever scored by an Aggie guard at the time. Overall, Nixon still ranks 15th all-time at Utah State in scoring, second all-time in assists (428), third in steals (190), third in steals per game (1.7), ninth in free throws attempted (547), ninth in 10-plus point games (77), 10th in minutes played (3,347) and is tied for 15th all-time in games played (114). His 564 points scored as a junior are the 21st-most in school history, as he was just the fourth guard in school history at the time to score 500 points in a season. As a senior, Nixon recorded 78 steals and 182 assists to rank as the second- and fourth-most all-time at Utah State, while his playing average of 36.5 minutes per game still ranks eighth all-time in school history. Nixon's best-ever scoring game was against UC Irvine during his junior season as he scored a career-high 33 points. To this date, Nixon is still one of just two players in school history to record at least seven steals in one game, is one of just seven Aggies to make at least 13 free throws in one game without missing, and is one of just 10 players at USU to attempt at least eight field goals in one game without a miss. Nixon also holds the school record for steals in a tournament game with four against Vanderbilt in the 1988 NCAA Tournament.
