The Utah State ‘Aggies’ NCAA basketball team have had an impressive start to the 2024/25 campaign. They recently beat USF (University of South Florida) 88-67 to get off the best start in school history.
Here is everything we know so far about the Aggies, plus a closer look at which three players for Utah State have recorded the best stats so far.
What is the NCAA?
The NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) is North America’s most popular college basketball league. A typical NCAA basketball game is played in two halves, each 20 minutes long, and the rules are slightly different to the NBA.
It’s comprised of several divisions and conferences, including the following:
- Summit League
- Southwestern Atlantic
- IVY League
- Horizon
- Mountain West
- Atlantic 10
- Atlantic Coast
- Southeastern
- Big 12
- Big Sky
- Big Ten
- Big West
- Missouri Valley
- Colonial Athletic
- Conference USA
- Western Athletic
- Metro Atlantic Athletic
- Mid-American
- America East
- Mid-Eastern
- American Athletic Conference
- Big South
- Northeast
- Ohio Valley
- Patriot League
- Big East
- A Sun
- Southern
- Southland
- Sun Belt
- West Coast
Utah State play in the Mountain West division and has gotten off to a perfect start to the season with a 10-0 win streak. No other team has ever achieved this. They are now officially the best team in NCAA history based on their impressive first ten games.
Who are the three standout Utah State players so far this season?
The best way to find out which Utah State players have performed the best so far this season is to look at the stats because the stats don’t lie. The three standout players for Utah State in the opening ten games of the 2024/25 season are the following:
- Ian Martinez
- Mason Falslev
- Braden Housley
Drake Allen has been another standout player based on the latest stats, and some of the other key players who have also had impressive starts with the minutes they have played are Dexter Akanno, Justin Bean, Jordan Barnes, Karson Templin, Great Osobor, Liam McChesney, Darius Brown II, Pavle Stosic, and Aubin Gateretse.
Can Utah State win the title this year, and is it possible to bet on NCAA basketball matches?
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Based on their current standing and form in the Mountain West table, Utah State looks unstoppable and will most likely go on to win the division.
They have gotten off to the best possible opening to a season, and the only team that stands a slight chance of stopping them is San Diego State, who are currently in second place, followed by third-place New Mexico, and fourth-place Nevada.
However, despite them winning ten for ten, Utah State are still not the odds-on favourites to win the NCAAB title outright. The current odds-on favourites to win are the Auburn Tigers, followed by the Duke Blue Devils, the Gonzaga Bulldogs, and the Houston Cougars.
If you were to place a wager on the Auburn Tigers right now to win the NCAAB outright, you are currently looking at average odds on trusted sites like 10bet SA of around 7/1 (fractional odds), which is 8.00 in decimal odds, meaning that the Tigers have a 12.50% implied probability rate of going on to win.
In comparison, the Utah State Aggies are currently priced at around 300/1 (301.00), meaning they still only have a 0.3% chance of winning the title this season.
Recent form and upcoming fixtures
Some of the Aggies’ most impressive victories so far occurred on November 7, when they beat Alcorn State 101-46, on November 9, when they beat Charlotte 103-74, and on November 14, when they beat Westminster UT 117-53. They also beat Utah Tech 92-62 and had a closely fought competition against Wyoming, beating them 70-67.
On Wednesday, December 18, they play UC San Diego before travelling away to play St Mary’s CA, on Monday, December 23. Other upcoming games are against San Diego State, Nevada, Fresno State, San Jose State, and Boise State.
Final thoughts
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