LOGAN, Utah (AP) \u2014 Utah State has hired longtime Northern Iowa coach Ben Jacobson to be its men\u2019s basketball coach, the school announced Monday.<\/p>\n
Jacobson, who agreed to a five-year deal with the Aggies, succeeds Jerrod Calhoun, who left to take over at Cincinnati.<\/p>\n
Jacobson becomes the fifth head coach in seven seasons at Utah State. He takes over an Aggies program that has reached the NCAA Tournament in four straight seasons.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m thankful for the opportunity to join Utah State as it enters its next chapter in the Pac-12,\u201d Jacobson said in a news release. \u201cI\u2019m grateful to Cameron Walker for trusting me to lead such a historic program and to continue its tradition as one of the top men\u2019s basketball programs in the West.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jacobson spent 20 seasons at Northern Iowa and made five NCAA Tournament appearances with the Panthers \u2014 highlighted by a Sweet 16 appearance in 2010 as a No. 9 seed. He compiled a 397-259 record at Northern Iowa and had a school- record 31 wins in the 2014-15 season.<\/p>\n
Jacobson is the all-time leader in conference game victories (220) and conference tournament victories (24) in the Missouri Valley Conference.<\/p>\n
Calhoun guided the Aggies to a 55-15 record and two NCAA Tournament appearances over two seasons before leaving for Cincinnati, his alma mater.<\/p>\n
Utah State will move to the Pac-12 Conference from the Mountain West Conference, starting with the 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOGAN, Utah (AP) \u2014 Utah State has hired longtime Northern Iowa coach Ben Jacobson to be its men\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":688417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,37370,87023,7596,217,3734,86020,231,772,1544,29496,29494,87024,86721,422,87022],"class_list":["post-688416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-ben-jacobson","tag-cameron-walker","tag-cincinnati","tag-college-basketball","tag-iowa","tag-jerrod-calhoun","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaab","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-40786-ap-iowa-sports-only","tag-product-40816-ap-utah-sports-only","tag-utah","tag-utah-state-basketball-ben-jacobson"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116319458681213574","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}