Scheduling and Stew Morrill

Stew Morrill entertained the media, Wednesday at Tucson, with his remarks on scheduling — a sore spot with the Aggie coach.

“Scheduling?” he said when asked about it by KUTV’s David James. “Wow. That never comes up at all, David.”

Morrill went on to say that playing top 25 teams is fine if you win — an unlikely occurrence on the road. But he said those same top 25 teams won’t come to Logan.

“So we’ve had two at-large berths in the last few years,” he said of the NCAA tourney. “We’ve won at times. Everybody has a right to criticize what we’re doing, but it hasn’t been too bad in terms of getting us to the NCAA Tournament.

“I’m not trying to be stubborn or be a jerk, but I’m going to continue to do what I think is best for our program.”

Morrill noted that he did play at Georgetown this year — a loss — and will continue to try to schedule games against major non-conference teams.

“So you always keep an open mind as to what you will do scheduling-wise. Will I do that again? Sure. Will I do it five times and none of them come to our place? No. that is stupid. So that’s flat stupid to do that. Some of you don’t believe that; that’s OK. I don’t know how to write for your paper, either.”

Meanwhile, Aggie star Tai Wesley said he was over the initial frustration over a 12 seed.

“Tai,” one writer asked, “you are probably one of the most visibly upset guys on Sunday. Have you been able to block that off and move on?”

Replied Wesley: “Yeah, um, you know, like Pooh (Williams) said, we’re here. We’re in the NCAA Tournament. We have a great opportunity before us to make some national noise and get us some attention, and even prove some guys wrong.

“So you know, why not take advantage of this opportunity that we’ve been given and go prove them wrong. And go show the nation what Utah State basketball is all about.”