Each week, RGJ sports writer Chris Murray will rank the Mountain West basketball teams. Here are this week’s rankings, with each team’s record and a comment. All records and rankings based on the games completed by Monday night.
1. Nevada
Rank last week: 1
Record: 11-3
Comment: You could argue for dropping Nevada to the second slot after its loss to San Francisco, but the Wolf Pack has the MW’s lone top-25 RPI victory, its four top-100 RPI wins pace the conference and the team ranks first in the MW in RPI, KenPom and the Sagarin Ratings and played the league's most difficult non-conference strength of schedule.