Murray's MW rankings: Utah State rises, UNLV sinks, Nevada still at top

After a two-week break for the holiday season, the RGJ's Chris Murray, Duke Ritenhouse and Jim Krajewski discuss Nevada basketball, prep sports and the national cyclocross championships in Reno this week. Chris Murray/RGJ

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: 15-3, 4-0 MW

Comment: The Wolf Pack keeps stacking victories, although some of its Mountain West games have been closer than expected. After covering the spread in each of its first eight games this season, Nevada is…