Robert Casey, Weber State Athletics
Is Beehive basketball therapeutic?
You may be sufficiently old to recollect a time when it wasn’t information if faculty basketball groups in Utah performed one another; not way back, the video games had been assumed and computerized.
However in 2025, it’s not, leaving sports activities followers to rejoice once they occur.
Another such recreation is now on the books. Weber State males’s basketball will journey to Utah State within the second week of the upcoming season, in line with a contract obtained by the Customary-Examiner.
The 2 colleges signed a deal final 12 months to play a pair of exhibition video games, with the primary on Oct. 18, 2024, in Logan. However the exhibition return recreation to Ogden this fall is difficult by the continued set up of a brand new geothermal heating and cooling system on the Dee Occasions Heart.
So as a substitute, WSU will journey to Logan once more, this time for a regular-season recreation, and get $85,000 from the Aggies for the pleasure. Weber State and Utah State final performed a regular-season recreation in 2022, a 75-72 WSU victory. Weber has received two of its final three video games in Logan.
That addition comes on the heels of the Wildcats lining up three future games with the University of Utah, breaking a run of 15 years for the reason that Utes signed a direct contract to play WSU. Weber State will play at Utah on Saturday, Nov. 8, and go to Utah State on Wednesday, Nov. 12.
Which means the Wildcats will play 4 of the opposite six Utah basketball groups this season. Utah Tech will play in Ogden to complete a home-and-home collection and WSU additionally performs at Utah Valley within the third recreation of a four-year contract. Common-season video games with BYU or Southern Utah don’t seem like within the playing cards for 2025.
WSU additionally has its video games within the Large Sky-Summit Problem assigned (residence to Oral Roberts, street at St. Thomas) and a return street recreation to UC Irvine on the 2025-26 slate.
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