Logan • At the beginning of the season, the Utah State men’s basketball team was picked ninth in the Mountain West Conference preseason poll.
Fast forward to this week: The Aggies are in fourth place, just one loss behind Fresno State and UNLV, which are tied for second in the MW. When the season started, and USU first-year head coach Craig Smith saw where USU was ranked, he took as a measure of how much the team was respected. But he knew better. Smith saw a team that could contend.
What the Aggies do believe in is themselves, and they do so because they believe in Smith.