• Utah State officially opens its 2025-26 campaign as it hosts Westminster at Dee Glen Smith Spectrum. The Aggies played two exhibitions against WCC opponents earlier this year, defeating Seattle at home 88-76, then beating San Francisco on the road 79-74.
• The Aggies are coming off of a strong campaign in head coach Jerrod Calhoun's first season in Logan, going 26-8 overall with a 15-5 record in Mountain West play to earn a trip to the 2025 NCAA Tournament. USU finished the year third in the league standings.
• Utah State returns five letterwinners from last year's squad, including All-Mountain West Second-Team guard Mason Falslev. During his sophomore campaign in 2024-25, Falslev averaged 15.0 points to go along with team-bests of 6.3 rebounds, 3.7 assists and 2.3 steals per contest.
• USU welcomes in 10 newcomers to this year's squad, with five transfers and five true freshmen. Transfer additions include fifth year forward Garry Clark (Texas A&M-CC), senior guards MJ Collins Jr. (Vanderbilt) and Kolby King (Butler), senior forward Zach Keller (Utah) and junior forward Luke Kearney (Air Force). Freshmen include guards Elijah Perryman (San Francisco, California) and Brayden Boe (Beaverton, Oregon), wings Kingston Tosi (Anchorage, Alaska) and Adlan Elamin (Arlington, Virginia) and forward David Iweze (Roanoke, Texas).
• The Aggies were picked to finish second by the league's media in the MW preseason poll, behind only San Diego State. This is USU's highest-projected finish since being picked first in 2019-20. Additionally, Falslev was named to the preseason all-conference team.
• Utah State ranked in the top 50 in the nation in several major statistical categories last season, including assist/turnover ratio (11th - 1.60), assists (14th - 17.1), field goal percentage (20th - .484), scoring margin (24th - +9.9), winning percentage (23rd - .765), turnover margin (28th - +3.1), bench points (32nd - 27.68), fastbreak points (33rd - 13.18), steals (35th - 8.6), scoring offense (40th - 79.9) and turnovers forced (49th - 13.79).
• USU is 2-0 all-time against Westminster, including a 106-68 win in 2022 and a 117-53 victory over the Griffins last season.
• All-time in season openers, Utah State is 89-32, including wins in three-straight and 27 of the past 31.
