While the Mountain West has been lauded as being close to a major basketball conference, one thing has held the league back and that is some of the member institutions are not scheduling tough non-conference games. Even good teams are not always scheduling up.
During Mountain West media days in Las Vegas, commissioner Craig Thompson may have a solution to punish teams who keep scheduling low-major teams or even non-Division I competitions, and that is to fine schools for the lack of scheduling.
"It's been the last couple of years we haven't been able to schedule the way we need to," Thompson said during his session with the media.