Last year, SDSU trailed by 27 against Syracuse a few hours after Utah State gave up a 24-4 run and suffered a double-digit loss against Texas Tech.īut after getting one, one, two, two and two teams in the 68-school field over the previous five tournaments, the Mountain West gets four shots this year: 6 seed Colorado State against Michigan, 8 seed Boise State against Memphis, 8 seed SDSU against Creighton and 12 seed Wyoming in a play-in game against Indiana. ![]() It has lost four straight by an average of 13.5 points and is 1-7 in the opening round since 2016, and only one of the losses was by less than nine points. ET), though, might require garnering respect in the only thing that really matters in college basketball, something the Mountain West has not done recently or, well, ever. Getting people to stay up late to watch your games (the semifinals of the conference tournament ended at 2:26 a.m. San Jose State coach Tim Miles said he texted his son that this is an “HM league.” But all week in Las Vegas, you kept hearing Mountain West coaches and administrators use the term “high major,” either by some weird coincidence or an internal PR campaign to rebrand itself - to speak it into existence. The Mountain West is generally grouped with what are called mid-majors, the tier just below the six power conferences in men’s basketball (football’s Power 5 plus the Big East) and above low-majors that are annually one-bid leagues in the NCAA Tournament. ![]() ![]() “Go out there, make some noise and continue to get everybody who maybe is not staying up to watch (us) on the East Coast to realize that this is high-level basketball being played here.”
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