Following New Mexico’s win over Bradley this weekend, the final iteration of the Missouri Valley-Mountain West challenge came to a fitting end: stalemate.
After two incarnations of the challenge, it’s finally over. The idea was for both the MW and the Missouri Valley conferences to use the challenge to get a quality non-conference game to help impress the selection committee come March. Some years, it delivered. Other times, the travel requirements were were gargantuan with very few tangible benefits.
There are rumors abound that the Mountain West will begin a new challenge, with similar goals in mind with the Atlantic 10 come the 2020-21 season.