BACK IN ACTION
Utah State women's basketball kicks off the 2025-26 regular season at home against Utah on Friday, November 7, at 6 p.m., at the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum.

FOLLOW ALONG
Friday's game will be available to watch on the Mountain West Network. Radio coverage for all games will be provided on 107.7 FM and the Varsity Network, with Ajay Salvesen on the call. Links to live stats for all games will be available on utahstateaggies.com.

AGGIES VS EVERYONE
Utah State faces off against Utah for the 39th time in program history but the first at home since 2017. The Aggies are 4-34 all-time against the Utes. All four wins have come at home, however, as USU scored wins over its in-state foe twice in 1975 (69-58, 69-55) and once in 2009 (67-58) and 2013 (77-61).

The Aggies are 48-111 all-time against opponents from the state of Utah with records of 4-34 versus Utah, 4-41 versus BYU, 18-23 versus Weber State, 10-7 versus Utah Valley, 5-4 versus Southern Utah, 3-2 versus Utah Tech and 4-0 versus Westminster.

A FINAL TUNE-UP
The Aggies defeated Division-II San Francisco State, 71-40, in the team's lone exhibition prior to the 2025-26 season. USU's backcourt duo of Aaliyah Gayles and Marina Asensio led the way for the Aggies. Gayles led Utah State with 16 points and added six rebounds and three assists while Asensio added 12 points. Sophie Sene posted a team-high seven rebounds and Karyn Sanford led the team both with four assists and two blocks.

RECORD BREAKERS
Utah State made 256 3-pointers last season, breaking the program record of 247 3-pointers made by the team in 2012-13. Utah State also surpassed the program record for 3-point attempts with 889 attempts from behind the arc, shattering the 2012-13 team's mark of 752 3-point attempts. 

LET IT FLY
Utah State ranked first in the MW and 30th nationally with 8.3 made 3-pointers per game. The Aggies also ranked first in the MW and seventh in the nation with 28.7 attempts from 3-point range per game this season. USU's three-point rate (the number of 3-point attempts relative to a team's total field goal attempts) of 40.6 percent ranked first in the MW and 10th in the nation. 
 
The Aggies had 11 players averaging at least one 3-point attempt per game, tying for the third-most such players in the country and the most such players for a single season in program history. Utah State also set a program record with five players averaging at least one 3-pointer per game.

AN INFLUX OF TALENT
Utah State's 2025-26 roster is highlighted by the additions of Aaliyah Gayles and Marina Asensio, with the backcourt duo bringing a wealth of experience and pedigree to Logan. Gayles was ranked the No. 8 recruit in the nation and a McDonald's All-American coming out of high school in 2022, and spent the last three seasons at USC. Asensio played last season at Western Michigan and her first two seasons at South Florida. She has twice played in the NCAA Tournament and earned all-MAC honorable mention last season.

ALL THAT GLITTERS IS NOT GOLD, BUT THIS IS
Marina Asensio played this summer for the Spanish U21 National Team at the FIBA 3x3 U21 Nations League in Bratislava, Slovakia. Asensio led the tournament in scoring while leading Spain to a gold medal. Paloma Muñoz Herreros also competed for Spain this summer at the U18 3x3 European Youth Olympic Festival.

PEER PRESSURE
The Aggies won back-to-back conference games last season against San Jose State and Nevada, their first time doing so since winning three-straight versus conference opponents in 2022. Utah State also swept San Jose State this season, USU's first sweep of a conference foe since defeating Air Force twice during the COVID-shortened 2020-21 season. 

I AM SPEED
The Aggies finished the 2024-25 season as the fastest team in the Mountain West, averaging 75.1 possessions per 40 minutes. New Mexico ranked second in the MW with 73.1 possessions per 40 minutes.
 
WITH THE ASSIST
Utah State registered 23 games this season with double-digit assists last season, far surpassing the previous year's mark of 12 such games. The Aggies averaged 11.5 assists per game, nearly three more assists per game than 2023-24, the second-biggest improvement among teams in the Mountain West. USU's 23 games of 10 or more assists ranks eighth all-time in program for a single season, and is the most since team recorded 24 such games in 2021-22.
 
ON THE UPSWING
Utah State ranked at the top of the Mountain West and near the top of the nation in several year-over-year improvements from the 2023-24 season. USU averaged 11.8 more 3-point field goal attempts per game last season compared to 2023-24, the largest year-over-year jump in the nation. The Aggies also averaged 9.9 more field goal attempts per game (second-largest jump in the nation), 3.4 more made 3-pointers per game (third in nation) and had a 13.3 percent increase in 3-point rate over last season (second in nation). USU also averaged 2.1 more steals per game, 6.4 more points per game, 4.5 more possessions per game, 4.2 more forced turnovers per game, and 3.9 more made field goals per game, all of which are the largest year-over-year jumps among Mountain West teams this season.

FINISHED STRONG
Over the last five games of the 2024-25 regular season, the Utah State offense averaged 75.2 points per game, the highest offensive output in the Mountain West during a team's final five games of the regular season.

ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE MYSELF
The Aggies welcome in 11 newcomers for the 2025-26 season. In addition to Gayles and Asensio, Utah State brings in three more transfers in senior Rachel Wilson (Wheeling), senior Karyn Sanford (Tarleton State) and sophomore Macie Brown (College of Southern Idaho). Saskia Kruger and Andjela Marojevic join USU as sophomores after spending their freshman seasons in Europe. The Aggies also bring in four true freshmen in Aitana Rosello Lopez, Paloma Munoz Herreros, Mirembe Twehamye Montanana and Bella Cosme. Seniors Sophie Sene and Jamisyn Heaton plus sophomore Elise Livingston return from last year's squad for USU.

INTERNATIONAL FLARE
This season, Utah State is majority international as the Aggies field eight players from overseas out of 14 players on the roster. USU boasts four players from Spain, the most in the nation, in Asensio, Rosello Lopez, Munoz Herreros and Twehamye Montanana. Also represented on this year's roster is Zambia (Kruger), Serbia (Marojevic), Norway (Sanford) and France (Sene). This is the first time in program history that over 50 percent of Utah State's roster is from outside the United States. The Aggies last fielded even 50 percent international players in 2018-19 (seven out of 14).

STANDING TALL
Utah State's roster boasts six players standing 6-foot or taller in Sophie Sene (6-3), Rachel Wilson (6-2), Saskia Kruger (6-1), Paloma Munoz Herreros, (6-1), Karyn Sanford (6-0) and Macie Brown (6-0). The Aggies fielded only three such players on last year's roster.

NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH TEAM ADDITIONS
With four players hailing from Spain out of its 14-player roster, Utah State has the highest percentage of players from Spain of anyone in the nation this season.

STARTER JACKETS
Utah State returns three players with extensive starting experience in Jamisyn Heaton, Elise Livingston and Sophie Sene. Heaton led the Aggies last season with 27 starts while Livingston followed close behind with 26 starts to her name. After missing several games early in the season due to injury, Sene returned to the lineup to make 17 starts last season.

UP NEXT
Utah State heads west to face Cal State Bakersfield on Tuesday, Nov. 11, at 2:30 p.m. (MT). The Aggies defeated the Roadrunners, 67-51, last season in Logan.

Tickets
Season tickets are on sale now and can be purchased here or by visiting the USU Ticket Office. Single-game tickets and mini-plans will go on sale at a later date.

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