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Checking in on… the MWC

Brian Goodman — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 19:00:21 +0000

Andrew Murawa is the RTC correspondent for the Mountain West and Pac-10 Conferences.

A Look Back

The Mountain West goes national – at least for a night. On Wednesday, the much-anticipated MWC clash between BYU and San Diego State took the nation by storm, and Jimmer Fredette and the Cougars certainly did not disappoint. After a pretty standard first eight minutes, during which Fredette “only” had five points, he exploded for BYU’s final 15 points of the first half, then picked up right where he left off after the break, scoring nine of the first 12 [...]

Checking in on… the Mountain West

Brian Goodman — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 21:00:08 +0000

Andrew Murawa is the RTC correspondent for the Mountain West and Pac-10 conferences.

A Look Back

While the top of the conference was business as usual, with BYU and San Diego State both taking care of things on their way towards Wednesday’s collision, there was quite a bit of shakeup in the middle of the conference. Colorado State handled UNLV at the Thomas & Mack with ease on Wednesday, before falling in a fairly close battle with BYU on Saturday. UNLV bounced back from their loss to squeak one out over New Mexico on Saturday, while the [...]

Checking in on… the MWC

Brian Goodman — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 21:46:43 +0000

Andrew Murawa is the RTC correspondent for the Mountain West and Pac-10 conferences.

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A Look Back

With the first week of conference play in the books, we’ve already had a big battle between a couple of the favorites, an upset of a team hoping to make its case for inclusion in the NCAA Tournament field and quite a few other interesting battles around the conference. The big statement of the week was BYU’s trip to UNLV on Wednesday night, where the Cougars came away with their first win in their [...]

Checking in on… the Mountain West

Brian Goodman — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 22:39:46 +0000

Andrew Murawa is the RTC correspondent for the Mountain West and Pac-10 Conferences.

A Look Back

As we turn the corner on the non-conference portion of the college basketball season and head into conference play, we’re going to spend this week’s Mountain West check-in summing up what the teams around the conference have done so far and what we can expect from them here on out. As a whole, it has been a successful run through non-conference play for the MWC’s member institutions. San Diego State remains undefeated and is a top-10 team nationally. BYU has [...]

Checking in on… the Mountain West

Brian Goodman — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 05:58:08 +0000

Andrew Murawa is the RTC correspondent for the Mountain West and Pac-10 conferences

A Look Back

This week was about as good of a week as the Mountain West can expect to have. Not only did member institutions glide through the MWC/MVC Challenge on their way to an 8-1 victory, but of the 18 games played involving MWC teams this week, the MWC posted a 16-2 record, with only a hard-fought TCU loss to Northern Iowa and an entirely predictable embarrassing Wyoming loss to South Dakota on the negative side of the ledger. As a whole, the [...]

Checking in on… the MWC

Brian Goodman — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 20:29:40 +0000

Andrew Murawa is the RTC correspondent for the Mountain West and Pac-10 conferences.

A Look Back

After a strong early start to the season for the Mountain West as a whole, the wheat has begun to separate from the chaff. Utah and Colorado State gave the first hint this week that they may be pretenders rather than contenders, while BYU and UNLV posted early-season tournament wins, proving their qualifications for being considered among the favorites in the conference. While it was BYU and San Diego State who were considered 1 and 1-A (not necessarily in that order) coming into the [...]

Checking in on… the Mountain West

rtmsf — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:51:43 +0000

Andrew Murawa is the RTC correspondent for the Mountain West Conference.

Standings (as of 2/4)

BYU 22-2 7-1 New Mexico 20-3 6-2 UNLV 18-4 6-2 San Diego State 16-6 5-3 Colorado State 13-9 4-4 Utah 10-12 3-5 TCU 10-13 2-6 Wyoming 9-13 2-6 Air Force 9-12 1-7

Superlatives

Team of the Week. BYU. Of the big three in the MWC, the Cougars were the only ones to play twice this week. They won both impressively over teams from the bottom half of the conference, but the biggest reason Dave Rose’s club gets this spot is they lead the conference at the turn. Everybody has played [...]

Checking in on… the Mountain West

jstevrtc — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:50:45 +0000

Andrew Murawa is the RTC correspondent for the Mountain West Conference.

Standings (as of 12/16):

New Mexico 11-0 UNLV 8-1 BYU 8-1 San Diego State 8-2 Colorado State 7-3 Air Force 5-3 TCU 5-5 Utah 5-5 Wyoming 5-5

Superlatives:

Team of the Week. New Mexico – As the lone remaining undefeated team in the Mountain West, this one is a no-brainer. The Lobos combined a hard-fought semi-neutral site win over Texas A&M in Houston with an absolute blowout of Northern Arizona yesterday to improve their record to 11-0, and, especially against Northern Arizona, were the epitome of a team, with all ten [...]