“Once we began to settle in in the second half and closed the gap a little bit, our guys began to feel some juice there and you kinda saw how the ending went,” Odom said. The Broncos shot 54% in the first half and 27% in the second half. That probably showed up in our shooting.” “… Maybe one of the weaknesses of this team is the amount of guys I played. “It is a game of making some shots, and they were able to do that,” Rice said. The Broncos were taken to overtime Thursday by UNLV when USU was coasting past New Mexico. Aggies make a strong case - again - to go dancing in March with quarterfinal winīoise State cooled off considerably in the second half, which coach Leon Rice attributed, in part, to fatigue.3 keys to Utah State’s 72-62 win over Boise State in the Mountain West tournament semifinals.“The open man is the go-to man on our team,” said Shulga, who finished with a game-high 19 points. Meanwhile, the Aggies stopped their generosity in the final 20 minutes, and surrendered zero points off five second-half turnovers. Shulga would go on to hit back-to-back 3-pointers between the 4:25 mark and the 3:35 mark to seal the deal. Once USU got the advantage, the air went out of the Broncos. Odom said it was “quite a game” for one that featured just one lead change.
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Sean Bairstow’s triple a minute later got the Aggies within one, and a few moments later USU took its first lead of the game when the bullish Eytle-Rock sank a pair of free throws after a controversial block-charge call went the Aggies’ way. Shulga’s 3-point play with just under 16 minutes remaining pulled the Aggies to within three, 40-37. This time, the catalyst for the comeback was not the steady Ashworth, but fellow guards Max Shulga and RJ Eytle-Rock. “Champions always answer,” said Ashworth, who finished with 14 points on 4 of 13 shooting. Those fans probably have differing opinions on the outfits now, after USU outscored BSU 44-26 in the second half. Then the Aggies turned the tables in the second half, while still in the black jerseys that Aggie fans have come to believe are cursed. Unlike a lot of characters and establishments in Sin City, Utah State was being generous to a fault. Utah State missed its first six 3-pointers and was 1 of 12 from beyond the arc before Steven Ashworth hit a couple back-to-back to restore order.īoise State led 36-28 at halftime, having turned 10 USU turnovers into 13 points. Indeed, the Aggies looked nothing like the team that was one of the best 3-point shooting clubs in the country this season in the first 20 minutes, continually rushing long shots and misfiring on nearly all of them.
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