Utah State suffered its first loss of the season on Thursday in a game that figures to be one of the more important non-conference games on the Aggie schedule. In the first true road game of the season, against a South Florida team ranked 78th in the NET, Utah State was buried 74-61.

"We got our ass kicked. I mean, let's call it like it is. That was an old-fashioned ass-kicking every step of the way," USU head coach Jerrod Calhoun said. "We were outclassed, all 30 of us that are on this trip from start to finish."

The first few minutes played out decently for the Aggies. They never led at any point in the game, but were within two points at the 14:25 mark of the first half with the score sitting at 11-9. But, from there, things went pretty quickly downhill. South Florida went on a 21-2 r

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