Mountain West Basketball: Top-5 2023 recruiting classes, by team

To cap off our week in Mountain West basketball recruiting, after we outlined the All-Mountain West 2023 recruiting team and dove into the top-7 recruits, we’re going to do rank the top-5 recruiting classes! Enough chitter chatter — let’s dive into it!

(All recruits listed came courtesy of On3 Rankings)

1. New Mexico

Notable recruits:

Tru Washington, G

Jadyn Toppin, F

Skinny: It’s not a big gap, but the Lobos have the best recruiting class of 2023 so far, in my view. They have a pair of top-4 recruits in Toppin and Washington, who I think is the conference’s best recruit in this class. Nobody knows how it will play out in the short- or long-term — Nevada lost their two three-star recruits from…