Sport: | basketball |
Year: | 2023–24 |
Prev Year: | 2022–23 |
Next Year: | 2024–25 |
Team: | Utah State Aggies |
Conference: | Mountain West Conference |
Short Conf: | MW |
Coachrank: | 20 |
Aprank: | 22 |
Record: | 28–7 |
Conf Record: | 14–4 |
Head Coach: | Danny Sprinkle |
Hc Year: | 1st |
Asst Coach1: | Andy Hill |
Asst Coach2: | Chris Haslam |
Asst Coach3: | Eric Brown |
Arena: | Smith Spectrum |
Champion: | Cayman Islands Classic champions Mountain West regular-season champions |
Bowl: | NCAA tournament |
Bowl Result: | second round |
The 2023–24 Utah State Aggies men's basketball team represented Utah State University in the Mountain West Conference (MWC) during the 2023–24 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. Led by first-year head coach Danny Sprinkle, the Aggies played their home games on campus at the Smith Spectrum in Logan, Utah. They finished the season 28–7, 14–4 in MWC play, to win the regular-season conference championship. They defeated Fresno State in the quarterfinals of the MWC tournament before losing to San Diego State. They received an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament as the No. 9 seed in the Midwest region. They defeated TCU in the first round before losing to No. 1-seeded Purdue.
On March 25, 2024, head coach Danny Sprinkle left the school to become the head coach at Washington.[1]
The Aggies finished the 2022–23 season 26–9, 13–5 in MWC play, to finish in second place. They defeated New Mexico and Boise State in the MWC tournament to advance to the championship game. There they lost to San Diego State. The Aggies received an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament as the No. 10 seed in the South region. There they lost to Missouri.
On March 29, 2023, head coach Ryan Odom left the school to become the head coach at VCU.[2] On April 7, the school named Montana State head coach Danny Sprinkle the team's new head coach.[3]
Name | Number | Pos. | Height | Weight | Year | Hometown | Reason for departure | |
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Sean Bairstow | 2 | G | 6'8" | 190 | Senior | Graduate transferred to VCU | ||
Steven Ashworth | 3 | G | 6'1" | 170 | Junior | Transferred to Creighton | ||
RJ Eytle-Rock | 5 | G | 6'4" | 225 | RS Senior | Graduated | ||
Cade Potter | 10 | F | 6'8" | 230 | RS Freshman | Transferred to High Point | ||
Max Shulga | 11 | G | 6'4" | 197 | Junior | Transferred to VCU | ||
Szymon Zapala | 12 | C | 6'11" | 240 | Junior | Transferred to Longwood | ||
Conner Gillis | 13 | G | 6'2" | 150 | Junior | Walk-on; TBD | ||
Connor Odom | 14 | G | 5'11" | 165 | Junior | Walk-on; transferred to Maryland | ||
Rylan Jones | 15 | G | 6'0" | 178 | Senior | Graduate transferred to Samford | ||
Taylor Funk | 23 | F | 6'9" | 220 | GS Senior | Graduated | ||
Zee Hamoda | 24 | F | 6'7" | 170 | Sophomore | Riffa, Bahrain | Transferred to Sacramento State | |
Dan Akin | 30 | F | 6'9" | 225 | GS Senior | Graduated | ||
Trevin Dorius | 32 | C | 7'0" | 240 | RS Senior | Graduate transferred to Utah Valley |
Name | Number | Pos. | Height | Weight | Year | Hometown | Previous school | |
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1 | F | 6'8" | 245 | Junior | Montana State | |||
Ian Martinez | 4 | G | 6'3" | 185 | Senior | Maryland | ||
Darius Brown II | 10 | G | 6'2" | 195 | RS Senior | Montana State | ||
Josh Uduje | 14 | G | 6'5" | 190 | Junior | Coastal Carolina | ||
21 | F | 6'10" | 205 | Junior | Washington | |||
Javon Jackson | 22 | G | 6'3" | 190 | Sophomore | Walk-on; Southern Nazarene | ||
Max Agbonkpolo | 23 | G/F | 6'9" | 196 | Senior | Wyoming | ||
Kalifa Sakho | 34 | C | 6'11" | Junior | South Plains College | |||
Nigel Burris | 35 | F | 6'7" | 222 | Sophomore | Idaho |
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See also: 2023–24 NCAA Division I men's basketball rankings.