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BYU not on Utah State hoops schedule for first time in 15 years
Brigham Younger Cougars head coach Mark Pope, reacts throughout play as BYU and Lengthy Seashore State play within the NIT on the Marriott Middle in Provo Utah on Wednesday, March 16, 2022. BYU gained 93-72. (Scott G Winterton, Deseret Information)
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LOGAN — Utah State males’s basketball launched its 2022-23 nonconference slate Wednesday and there was one obvious omission.
BYU wasn’t included on the schedule for the primary time in 15 years.
From 1957 to 2021, the collection was performed yearly apart from the 2007-08 season. Now, much like the soccer collection, which was canceled by BYU in Might, the way forward for the Aggies and Cougars basketball rivalry is doubtful.
After the prior three-year deal expired following a sport in Provo final season, talks of a brand new deal had been mentioned. However based on Utah State play-by-play announcer Scott Gerrard, the sides could not come to an agreement.
Utah State proposed a three-game collection consisting of a impartial website sport, adopted by a home-and-home. BYU countered with a suggestion for a single impartial website sport for the upcoming season, which the Aggies declined. Gerrard added there isn’t any sport between the 2 faculties “for the foreseeable future.”
USU and BYU is not going to play one another in Males’s hoops this yr.
USU requested for a 3 yr settlement: impartial (Vivint) sport then a house and residential
BYU proposed one impartial sport at Vivint.
Two sides could not recover from the deadlock so no sport this yr – or in foreseeable future
— Scott Garrard (@ScottyGZone) August 31, 2022
In response to Vanquish the Foe, BYU wished to signal a one-year deal after which “reevaluate,” as a result of BYU doesn’t wish to face Utah State in its inaugural Large 12 season (2023-24) that features 18-conference video games and an already loaded nonconference slate. The story added that Utah State didn’t really feel comfy agreeing to a single sport as a result of they wished to make sure BYU would return to Logan.
The collection, which BYU leads 61-43 and has gained 10 straight, seems to be falling to the wayside within the wake of the Cougars’ arrival to the Large 12 quickly, much like how Utah has opted to not schedule Utah State on an annual foundation in both sports activities after becoming a member of the Pac-12 in 2011.
Utah State is adamant about equal illustration in every collection. As issues presently stand, the Aggies wouldn’t comply with play a buyout sport or a two-for-one supply from BYU or Utah in both sport.
Despite BYU’s absence on the upcoming schedule, Utah State has video games towards 4 totally different WCC foes, together with a house sport towards Santa Clara, a street sport at San Diego, a impartial website sport towards San Francisco in San Francisco, and a impartial website sport towards Loyola Marymount in Las Vegas.
The Aggies will compete within the Diamond Head Classis in Hawaii, with its opening match towards Seattle. They host 4 video games towards in-state groups — Utah Valley, Utah Tech, Weber State and Westminster — in addition to Summit League energy Oral Roberts.
“We’re enthusiastic about our nonconference schedule for this season,” head coach Ryan Odom stated in a press release. “General, it can present our group a wholesome problem each within the Spectrum and away from house to arrange our group for what we all know shall be a troublesome Mountain West Convention.”
Utah State additionally introduced its 20-game convention slate, which can start at house towards Fresno State on New Yr’s Eve, and can finish on March 4 at house towards Boise State. Opposite to the earlier 18-game convention slate, the Aggies will face each convention opponent twice.