Mountain West Conference 2008-09 Preview
by Brad Best

Things are looking up in the Mountain West Conference. With only a handful of premier players moving on to either the next level or the rest of their lives, the conference as a whole is set up for even greater success.
The UNLV Runnin’ Rebels are the consensus favorite [...]

Mountain West Notebook
by Brad Best

The Mountain West Conference men’s basketball teams have collectively hit a bumpy patch in the road that has brought many teams down from their early season peaks and into the valley where pre-season expectations were formed.
Take Saturday, December 8 as an example. BYU and Utah each had opportunities to beat [...]

Mountain West Notebook
by Brad Best

The Mountain West Conference men’s basketball is off to a solid start in early non-conference play, with a combined record of 36-10. Going into Saturday, five teams were undefeated, but that got trimmed to two teams as BYU, San Diego State and Air Force each lost for the first time. [...]

Mountain West Conference 2007-08 Preview
by Brad Best

The Mountain West will look a lot like the Wild West as competition for the conference crown is wide open. With many of the proven scorers in the conference gone and with more than half of the teams adjusting to new coaches, the Mountain West is up for [...]

Mountain West Conference Notebook
by Brad Best

No matter whom you asked – coaches, players, the media – everyone was saying that the Mountain West Conference would be tougher this season, both in and out of conference. So far, that prediction is proving true, at least in non-conference play. Collectively, the conference’s teams are off to [...]

Mountain West Conference 2006-07 Preview
by Brad Best

With most of the top talent returning for another helping of collegiate competition, this looks to be a resurgent year for men’s basketball in the Mountain West Conference. Quality freshman recruits, impressive transfers and upperclassman leadership should add up to some real conference shootouts and well-fought battles on [...]

Mountain West Conference Notebook
by John Eisel

1. San Diego State (10-6, 3-1) (LW: 5)
Comment: Yes, I know Air Force beat them, but it was by three on the road. This is a different San Diego State team than at the beginning of the season.

Last week’s results: Won at Utah 72-67, beat UNLV 83-67.

What we liked: [...]

Mountain West Conference Notebook
by John Eisel

1. Air Force (14-1, 2-0) (LW: 2)
Comment: When do you think the Zoomies will get the credit they deserve?
Last week’s results: Beat BYU 75-59, beat SDSU 65-62.
What we liked: On national television, Air Force beat up a pretty good BYU team. Someone has to have seen it, right?
What we [...]

Mountain West Conference Notebook
by John Eisel

Mountain West Power Poll

1. Colorado State (11-2)
Preseason ranking: 9
Best win: 83-82 vs. Colorado. It’s the Buffs’ only loss this season and it’s always nice to beat the in-state rival.
Worst loss: 71-67 at Kansas State. The Wildcats are 8-1 right now.
Comment: The Rams have had good big men inside for [...]

Mountain West Conference 2005-06 Preview
by John Eisel

Here’s the bad news for Mountain West Conference fans: Most likely, your team is down this year.

The good news? So is everybody else.

The conference lost two of its best players ever as Utah’s Andrew Bogut and New Mexico’s Danny Granger were both picked in the first round of [...]

Mountain West Conference 2004-05 Recap
by John Eisel

2005 was the year of the Utah Utes in the Mountain West Conference.

After Alex Smith led the football Utes to an undefeated season, a blow out win in a BCS bowl and a No. 4 ranking at the end of the season, Andrew Bogut took the basketball to [...]

Mountain West Conference Tournament Preview
by John Eisel

I don’t understand the reasoning behind the time schedule for the first round of the Mountain West Conference Tournament, in terms of both exposure and ticket sales.

Wyoming will have the most fans buying tickets for the games, yet the conference has them playing at 2:30 p.m.? Considering the [...]

Mountain West Conference Notebook
by John Eisel

Mountain West Conference Power Poll

1. Utah (22-3, 10-0 MWC)
It almost seems pointless continuing. It’s Utah and then everybody else. Hopefully they can actually win an NCAA Tournament game- they’d be only the third in conference history. That’s not good.

2. New Mexico (18-6, 5-4)
Since the Lobos’ preseason schedule was [...]

Mountain West Conference 2003-04 Recap
by John Eisel

Mountain West Conference Power Poll
1. Utah (17-3, 5-0)
2. Air Force (12-7, 3-1)
3. San Diego State (9-8, 3-1)
4. UNLV (9-7, 2-2)
5. Wyoming (10-8, 2-3)
6. New Mexico (14-5, 1-3)
7. Colorado State (9-9, 1-4)
8. BYU (7-13, 1-4)

Every Mountain West Conference team is playing for March in the Pepsi Center, except for [...]

Mountain West Conference Power Poll
by John Eisel

Wow, what an eventful week.

UNM’s Danny Granger hurts his knee against Wyoming, got surgery, will be back.
SDSU’s Wesley Stokes doesn’t take care of his grades, won’t be back.
Colorado State’s Dwight Boatner leaves school. He’ll be back, just not with CSU.
And then there are the games, where Utah pounded [...]

Mountain West Conference 2003-04 Recap
by John Eisel

Mountain West Conference Early Season Power Poll
1. New Mexico (10-1) Preseason Rank: 4

We find out what the Lobos are all about against the Demon Deacons.

What we liked: They’re beating the teams they’re supposed to beat, and soundly.
What we didn’t like: They were considerable favorites in all of their [...]

Mountain West Conference Preview
by John Eisel

When the results came out from the coaches and media preseason poll and the top three teams all have new coaches this season, things had to be taken with a grain of salt.
UNLV, Utah and reigning regular season champion Air Force all brought back too much talent from good [...]

Mountain West Conference 2004 Offseason News Recap
by John Eisel

Late Night with the MWC: The Mountain West Conference announced they were unable to leave their ESPN “Big Monday” contractual obligation, keeping the conference showcase late at night (midnight-2 AM Eastern). The conference, which wanted to explore a Wednesday or Thursday televised conference game of the [...]

Mountain West Conference 2003-04 Recap
by Keith Irizarry

Coming into this season, you would have had to have been Madam Cleo if you saw Air Force storming to the forefront of the Mountain West Conference. The Falcons won the regular season title with a 22-7 overall record and a 12-2 [...]

Mountain West Conference Finals Recap

Recap by Keith Irizarry

(3) Utah 73, (4) UNLV 70
With 1.8 seconds left, Nick Jacobson did what all of his teammates knew he would: hit a game winning three-pointer. There was no doubt in their minds that he had it in him. Jacobson has been the team [...]

Mountain West Conference Semifinals Recap

Recap by Keith Irizarry

Huff…Huff…Puff…and I’ll blow your house down. Sound familiar? Right, it should, because the MWC should have never been built out of hay. Coming into the conference tournament, it was believed that there were 2 “locks.” Oh yeah, don’t forget this conference is [...]

Mountain West Conference Finals Preview

Preview by Keith Irizarry

(4) UNLV vs. (3) Utah
It will be Utah and UNLV. Two teams with big names, but whom have had a rough go of it at times this season. This will be the third consecutive trip to the MWC Final for the Rebs (they [...]