The past two years of Mountain West basketball has been pretty very bad on the national scene. There have been only one NCAA Tournament team each of the past two seasons, both loses.
Perhaps the tide is turning and the conference can get multiple teams in for the first time since the 2015 Big Dance when it was Wyoming, San Diego State and Boise State.
ESPN’s Joe Lunardi has published a way-too-early field of 68 and he has two (!) Mountain West team in his initial projected field. He has Nevada in the actual field of 64 as a 12 seed against No.