Just a few hours before the start of Daylight Saving Time, the Utah State Aggies managed to maintain some daylight between them and the rest of the Mountain West Conference and secure its first-ever outright Mountain West title by virtue of a hard-fought win over New Mexico Saturday night at the Spectrum. Coming into Saturday’s game, the Aggies (26-5, 14-4) had secured at least a share of the Mountain West title, but thanks to their fifth-straight victory, Utah State has the championship all to itself and will be the No. 1 seed next week in the Mountain West tournament in Las Vegas. “I really don’t have the words to describe this team,” said Sprinkle, who was hired away from Montana State and inherited zero points from last year’s USU squad.
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A series of slow-moving winter storms that wreaked havoc in Southern California and left 3 feet (91 centimeters) of snow in northern Arizona made its way Saturday into New Mexico, where a stretch of U.S. highway south of the Colorado line was closed and as much as a foot (30 cm) of snow was possible in some mountain areas.
A series of winter storms that wreaked havoc in Southern California early this week and left 3 feet of snow in northern Arizona continues to move east into New Mexico