Story byUtah State guard Mason Falslev (12) and forward Karson Templin (22) celebrate after Colorado State called a timeout Saturday in Logan. | Eli Lucero/Herald JournalJeff HunterSat, December 20, 2025 at 11:42 PM UTC·7 min readLOGAN — A 10-day break between games with Christmas smack dab in the middle sounds like the perfect schedule for a college basketball team during the holiday season. But after Utah State’s dominant performance against Mountain West Conference rival Colorado State Saturday afternoon at the Spectrum, USU head coach Jerrod Calhoun was understandably feeling a little Scrooge-like. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisement“I wish we could play again tomorrow,” Calhoun said after the Aggies’ 100-58 dismantling of the Rams on Stew Morrill Court. Winners of five straight games and one of the top offensive teams in the nation coming into the conference opener for both teams, Colorado State (9-3 overall, 0-1 in the Mountain West) shot just 26.1% in the first half and 36.7% for the game while being crushed on the boards by a 40-20 margin. Meanwhile, the Aggies (10-1, 1-0) opened the contest with a 12-0 burst and never really slowed down. The home team held advantages of 27-5 and 37-11 in the first half, and took a 45-24 lead into halftime. After shooting 60.7% in the first half, Utah State shot 66.7% in the second half while pulling away by as many as 45 points late in the game. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementThe final 42-point margin of victory was the largest ever by the Aggies in the 110-game, all-time series with Colorado State.“We were up big on them last year, too,” Calhoun said, referencing the Aggies’ 22-point second half lead against the Rams at the Spectrum getting cut down to as few as seven points, “so we had five returning guys in the locker room who were very vocal about that... and when your blow teams out, your numbers look great.“So we need to beat everybody we can, and if we have a lead, we can’t call anything off with the way the analytics world works.