Each week, RGJ sports writer Chris Murray will rank the Mountain West basketball teams. Here are this week's rankings, with each team's overall record, next opponent and a comment. All records and rankings based on the games completed by Monday.
Comment: This is the fifth year I've done Mountain West power rankings in football and basketball and marks the first time Nevada has topped one of these rankings. The Wolf Pack took care of business in the Mountain West-Missouri Valley Challenge by drilling Bradley. While the Braves aren't very good, Nevada showed excellent maturity in that game, which came on the back end of a ton of recent travel.