Monday, March 5, 2018

Mountain West

The Mountain West begins conference tournament play on Wednesday from Las Vegas. Vegas, baby, where college basketball goes to play.

Nevada is the 1-seed and probably a safe at-large squad. They’re 19th in KenPom. Boise State is the 2-seed and New Mexico is the 3-seed. Fresno State is the 4-seed and San Diego State is the 5. San Diego State is coming off a win over Nevada on Saturday but was 0-2 against Fresno during the regular season. 

Boise State is the only other team that could potentially get an at-large bid but would need a lot of help. SDSU is 60th in KenPom and Fresno is 73rd. UNLV who finished 8-10 in league play and is the 8-seed is 101st in KenPom. They do own a win against Nevada.

Bubble teams will watch the Mountain West hoping no one steals a bid. My hunch is, someone steals a bid.

The Pick: Boise State

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