Weber State men’s basketball player Dillon Jones was named the Big Sky Conference player of the week for the third time this season and 11th of his career after two strong individual performances last week in Mountain West road games.

In an 84-71 victory Saturday at Wyoming, Jones totaled 17 points, 11 rebounds and seven assists on 6-of-13 shooting and a 4-of-4 effort at the foul line. He assisted and scored key baskets in the second half to keep WSU in the lead.

In a 72-55 loss at Nevada on Wednesday, Jones had 13 points, 12 rebounds, three assists and three steals.

Jones currently leads the Big Sky in scoring (18.7 points per game) and rebounding (10.9 per game). He’s again first nationally in defensive rebounding, both in per-game average (10.1) and by percentage (35.9%). Jones is also third in field-goal percentage (48.2%) and assists (3.9) in the Big Sky.

FOOTBALL TO PLAY COLORADO

Weber State football finished its 2026 schedule by signing a one-time game to play at Colorado, the school announced Tuesday.

WSU will travel to Colorado on Sept. 12, 2026. The game will be the first between the two schools.

The Wildcats are also set to host Northwestern State and play at Southern Utah that season in nonconference play.

WSU now has one power-conference FBS school on each schedule from 2024-30 except for the 2028 season (Washington 2024, Arizona 2025, Colorado 2026, BYU 2027, Utah 2029, BYU 2030).

MORE FOOTBALL ALL-AMERICANS

After senior offensive lineman Noah Atagi (first team) and senior linebacker Winston Reid (second team) were named FCS All-Americans by the Associated Press last week, two more teammates joined them on the STATS Perform All-America team, announced Tuesday.

While Atagi and Reid were named to the STATS All-America first team, senior cornerback Maxwell Anderson was named to the second team while outgoing junior kick returner Abraham Williams received third-team honors.

STATS Perform is the main media organization focused on FCS football that issues weekly and season-end awards.

OUTGOING TRANSFER UPDATES

While WSU is gathering a crop of committed high school seniors (which includes Northridge High linebacker Zach Smith), its outgoing transfers have mostly chosen their next destinations as the early signing period arrives Wednesday. All have landed on FBS teams.

BYU continues to pull in Weber State players, with sophomore linebacker Jack Kelly and soon-to-be-seventh-year cornerback Marque Collins reuniting with Jay Hill in Provo.

Punter Jack Burgess will sign with Texas Tech while sophomore receiver Treyshun Hurry has committed to San Jose State. Defensive end Okiki Olorunfunmi, who entered the transfer portal during the season after a season-ending arm injury, has committed to play for Bronco Mendenhall at New Mexico.

Kick returner Abraham Williams and walk-on quarterback Jakob Hollingshaus have yet to make their decisions on future schools known.

COMMISSIONER ARM WRESTLE COMING?

Basketball games for the first Big Sky-Summit Challenge arrive in early January and the leagues have announced a scoring system that will decide how to crown one conference a winner each season.

The interconference challenge will add points together for men’s and women’s basketball games. Any home team victory is worth one point and road victories are worth 1.5 points. The conference with the most points wins the challenge that season.

If the points are tied, then overall scoring margin will serve as the tiebreaker. If that does not break the tie, Big Sky Commissioner Tom Wistrcill and Summit League Commissioner Josh Fenton will stage an arm wrestle at the Final Four in April to decide the winner.

The Weber State men will host predicted Summit League champion South Dakota State on Wednesday, Jan. 3, then travel to Oral Roberts on Saturday, Jan. 6.

The Weber State women host Missouri-Kansas City on Jan. 6. The women play just one game because its other opponent, Western Illinois, left the Summit League after the challenge schedule was created.