When the Boise State men’s basketball team joined the Mountain West Conference in 2011, the league regularly sent multiple representatives to the NCAA Tournament.
The Broncos were among five Mountain West teams to qualify for the tournament in 2013 and were one of three to go in 2015.
But the past two seasons, the conference has sent only the Mountain West Tournament champion to the field of 68, a disappointing trend the league’s presidents tried to address this summer by mandating stronger nonconference schedules for member schools.
The hope is that the conference will return to being a multi-bid league this spring.