OPENING TIPS
• Utah State is playing in its 24th NCAA Tournament all-time, including for the second straight year and fourth time in the last six years. (USU also qualified for the 2020 NCAA Tournament prior to it being canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.) Since the turn of the century, USU has played in 12 NCAA Tournaments (2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2019, 2021, 2023, 2024).
 
• Utah State won its first outright Mountain West regular season title in its 11 years in the league. USU has now won or shared 18 conference championship all-time (1918, 1926, 1930, 1935, 1936, 1980, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2019, 2024).
 
• Utah State men's basketball is ranked No. 20 and 19 in this week's Associated Press and Coaches Polls, respectively. This is the ninth week the Aggies have been ranked in both polls. USU was previously ranked No. 18 (March 11), No. 22 (March 4), No. 22 (Feb. 26), No. 22 (Feb. 5) No. 17 (Jan. 29), No. 18 (Jan. 22), No. 16 (Jan. 15), and No. 20 (Jan. 8) in the AP Poll, while it was No. 18 (March 11), No. 22 (March 4), No. 23 (Feb. 26), No. 21 (Feb. 5), No. 17 (Jan. 29), No. 20 (Jan. 22), No. 17 (Jan. 15) and No. 23 (Jan. 8) in the Coaches Poll. Overall, USU is 76-24 (.760) as an AP ranked team, including 12-3 this year.
 
• No. 20 Utah State men's basketball was well represented in the league's postseason awards as voted by the league's head coaches. Head coach Danny Sprinkle was named the Steve Fisher Coach of the Year, while junior wing Great Osobor was named both the Player and Newcomer of the Year and junior guard Josh Uduje the Co-Sixth Man of the Year.
 
• Osobor and graduate guard Darius Brown II each earned first team all-MW accolades, while senior guard Ian Martinez was an honorable mention selection. Brown was also named to the defensive team.
 
• Junior wing Great Osobor was named an Associated Press Honorable Mention All-American, as announced by the organization on Tuesday. Osobor is the eighth Aggie men's basketball player to be recognized as an All-American by the AP and the first since Neemias Queta was an honorable mention All-American in 2021.
 
• Utah State's 13 wins away from home this year (eight road, five neutral) are tied for the most in the Mountain West and tied for fifth in the nation.
 
• Utah State ranks in the top 50 in the nation in several categories, including defensive 3-point field goal percentage (.286, 3rd), field goal percentage (.493, 8th), assists per game (16.39, 25th), scoring margin (+9.52, 32nd), assist-to-turnover ratio (1.47, 38th) and scoring offense (79.79, 43rd).
 
• Graduate senior guard Darius Brown II ranks seventh in the nation in assist-to-turnover ratio (3.45), 10th in assists per game (6.48) and 28th in minutes played per game (36.06). 
 
• Junior wing Great Osobor ranks in the top 50 in the nation in field goal percentage (.583, 27th), rebounds per game (9.15, 42nd) and defensive rebounds per game (6.36, 47th). 
 
• Utah State is one of just three teams in the nation returning zero points to its 2023-24 roster, joining New Mexico State and Northwestern State. The Aggies also have the second-fewest returning rebounds (0.004 percent) and are tied for the second-fewest returning assists (0.003 percent), both behind NMSU.
 
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