• The Mountain West Tournament will take place from March 12-15 at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas. The championship game is set for Saturday, March 15, at 4 p.m. (MT). The quarterfinals and semifinals will be broadcast on CBS Sports Network, with the title game on CBS.
• As the 3-seed, Utah State earned an automatic first round bye and trip to the quarterfinal round, where it will face the winner of 6-seed UNLV and 11-seed Air Force. Should Utah State win, it will move on to face the winner of 2-seed Colorado State and 7-seed Nevada/10-seed Fresno State in the semifinals.
• This is the 12th Mountain West Tournament for Utah State, since joining the league in 2013-14. The Aggies have won the tournament twice, in 2019 and 2020, and have made it to the championship game four times total, all in the past six years (2019, 2020, 2021, 2023). In the MW Tournament, USU is 17-9. All-time in all conference tournaments, the Aggies are 55-36.
• USU graduate guard Ian Martinez was named to the All-Mountain West First Team, while sophomore guard Mason Falslev earned a spot on the league's second team as well as on the Mountain West All-Defensive Team.
• Graduate guard Dexter Akanno, in his fifth and final year of college basketball, scored the 1,000th point of his career against Air Force in the team's regular season finale.
• Falslev is one of two players in the country this season to have totaled at least 71 steals and 189 rebounds. He is also one of just three players currently averaging at least 14 points, six rebounds, 3.5 assists and two steals per game.
• Falslev ranks first in the Mountain West and 17th in the nation with 2.30 steals per game.
• Martinez ranks in the top 10 in the Mountain West in scoring average, free throw percentage, free throws made, 3-point field goals made and field goal percentage. He also holds the third-longest streak of double-digit scoring games in the nation at 34.
• Utah State has been a 3-seed in the Mountain West Tournament just once before, in 2023.
• Should the Aggies make the NCAA Tournament this year, they would become just the second team in NCAA history to make it to three-straight NCAA Tournaments with three different non-interim head coaches.
