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Utah State basketball: Aggies happy to be heading to Boise

It's going to be like a home game for the Aggies. We are excited to have them come to Boise again, now get your butts to the sweet 16!

Congrats Aggies. I'm very happy you won the WAC tourney and made it to the Big Dance. You've had a terrific season.

I believe you're in a similar circumstance to BYU. You're seeding will improve after you demonstrate you can win in the Big Dance. We're both after the Gonzaga model. They started by getting upsets in the NCAA Tournament and then built on that. Go get'em USU

Gonzaga plays a lot of tough games. USU does not.

The Bulldogs did not play tough teams until Mark Few got there and they started knocking off people in the first round. Gradually there seeding rose.

I am really glad they are happy, but for the rest of us who love em, yep they got hosed AGAIN.

Go AGGIES! :)

Go Aggies!!! :-)

Interesting to see how different the computer rankings are than selection committee's opinions.

Rank, Name, Record, (W,L), Ranking Score

19 Marquette 23 8 748

30 Brigham Young 24 6 735

40 Utah 21 9 722

43 Utah St. 27 4 720

The committee probably got the Marquette/USU seeds correct but flipped the Utah and BYU ranks *and* seeded those two schools too high in general - by the computer USU and Utah are basically tied.

The 28 score (rank) difference between USU and Marquette is very tight (a 100 point difference is the easy prediction difference). Given Boise is almost a home court for the Aggies, and that Marquette lost a great player, I think we stand a very good chance of advancing to the second round.

John Harvey

the aggies made it to the second round in 2001 also.

There is an error in this article. The aggies made it to the second round in 2001.

The aggies also made it to the second round in 2001.

You assume too much. Hosed with an 11, I am not so arrogant to think we deserved much higher and given the location, location location I say this is a pretty good deal. Additionally we have an opponent who is a little banged up. This game will not be as tough as the Arizona draw we got last time.

Great draw, great location, go Aggies!!!

Besides an 8 vs 9 game gives you the #1 seed next round, which may be jumping ahead but I think it is a great draw for us.

GO AGS!!!

Marguette will be without its best player so I expect the Aggies to take this one.

Here is the deal. If we don't win, we will never get respect. We have to go out and prove we can compete with schools who have proven themselves. If we didn't win the WAC tourney, we would have been the first 29 win team to not get a bid, and that is ridiculous. We have got to start playing 2 for 1 games with big time opponents. Utah has proven that losing to big time opponents does not hurt their seed. They are a 5 seed??? Hardly, but the seed is a result of their tough schedule and the respect they have earned over the years after winning a few tourney games. We need to win or shutup.

I hope the Aggies win this game, but anyone that thinks Marquette will be an easy win (even banged up) has not watched them play.

Utah St. 68 Marquette 64

expect too much. St. Mary's was without their best player and they handed it to us. I would love to see us win this one, but, USU teams of the past have not shown enough for me to get that excited. I think this is a tough draw for us, but I will not discount the great location the committee gave us.

Way to work your way back into the rankings Ags.

Go Aggies.

The 1981 win would be the 'once' since 1970

Totally agree with you "reality"...swallow your pride stew and show the nation we will play anyone, anywhere, anytime...respect is earned - always. Fresno State gets it...

To continue to pile onto "reality"'s comment - did anyone notice that no WAC team got an NIT invite? Wow...

Even the Big Sky (Weber) got a second team playing another game!

Marquette will be a heavy load to carry. Too much talent and too much experience and too much heart.