USU names Craig Smith as head coach basketball coach

Utah State will introduce South Dakota’s Craig Smith as the school’s basketball coach Tuesday morning in Logan. USU announced Monday that Smith was athletic director John Hartwell’s choice to replace Tim Duryea, after Smith visited the campus Sunday. Smith is not the kind of big-name hire that some may have anticipated when Hartwell told KVNU Radio that fans would be “blown away” by the level of interest in the job. His work in four seasons at South Dakota, however,