Utah State Aggies
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| University | Utah State University |
| Conference | Mountain West Conference |
| NCAA | Division I |
| Athletic director | John Hartwell |
| Location | Logan, Utah |
| Varsity teams | 16 |
| Football stadium | Maverik Stadium |
| Basketball arena | Dee Glen Smith Spectrum |
| Mascot | Big Blue |
| Nickname | Aggies |
| Fight song | Hail the Utah Aggies |
| Colors | Navy Blue, White, and Pewter Gray |
| Website | www |
The Utah State Aggies are the athletics teams of Utah State University (USU). The school fields men's varsity teams in basketball, cross country, football, golf, tennis, and track and field. Women's varsity teams include basketball, cross country, gymnastics, soccer, softball, tennis, track and field, and volleyball. All teams competed in the NCAA Division I Western Athletic Conference (WAC). They joined the Mountain West Conference in 2013. USU has a number of club teams as well.
The first intercollegiate athletic event in the school's history took place on November 25, 1892, when the Agriculturalists defeated the football team from the University of Utah, 12-0. The football program has a rich history (Merlin Olsen and Phil Olsen are alumni) throughout the mid-20th century, but has struggled lately, following two ill-fated stints as an independent program and two more years in the geographically distant Sun Belt Conference, after the Big West Conference, which had housed the Aggies since 1978, elected to stop sponsoring football in 2001. USU's other teams remained in that conference until the school was invited to join the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) in 2005. USU had lobbied to join its in-state rivals Utah and BYU in the WAC for many decades prior to 2005, but were only allowed in after the two other schools had left to form the Mountain West Conference. Subsequently both Utah and BYU departed the Mountain West Conference and USU was invited to join that conference, where they currently reside.
Recently, the men's basketball team, under coach Stew Morrill, has become a nationally respected program, with several conference championships and trips to the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship. The basketball program has been one of the most successful programs in the country since 2000, winning at least 23 games in each season, many conference championships, and appearing in the NCAA tournament numerous times. In fact, many Aggie sports have been extremely successful for many years, though this is often overlooked due to the recent futility of the football team.
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