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Mountain West Tournament Diary: Quarterfinal Thursday

AMurawa — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 09:11:27 +0000

Game of the Day

On Monday, San Diego State’s Jamaal Franklin was named the Mountain West Player of the Year (nevermind the fact that we at RTC gave Drew Gordon the nod) after a blazing conclusion to the regular season. On the first day of postseason play in the conference, Franklin reminded everybody just how good he can be.

With the shot clock turned off and Boise State having run back to tie their quarterfinal game with the Mountain West regular season champion, the Aztecs called a timeout and set up a play that everybody in the Thomas & Mack Center knew [...]

Checking In On… The Mountain West Conference

AMurawa — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:00:05 +0000

Andrew Murawa is the RTC correspondent for the Mountain West and Pac-12 conferences.

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A Look Back

We have suspected since late November or so that the bottom half of this conference was pretty darn good, but we still figured that when push came to shove it would be UNLV, San Diego State, and New Mexico mostly dominating the other five teams in the league. And yet, last Saturday we saw the Aztecs fall to an undersized Colorado State club, while this week it was UNLV’s turn, as they lost a tough roadie at Wyoming on Saturday night. Along the [...]

Checking In On… the Mountain West Conference

AMurawa — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:58:16 +0000

Andrew Murawa is the RTC correspondent for the Mountain West and Pac-12 conferences.

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A Look Back

It was a week of upsets and near upsets in the Mountain West, a week that may ultimately turn out to be good for the conference. The notable upset came Saturday as Colorado State handed San Diego State its first conference loss of the season, while UNLV twice was taken to overtime on the road against the two teams who are currently seventh and eighth in the league, Air Force and Boise State. But, when all is said and done, we wind up [...]

Checking In On… the Mountain West Conference

Brian Goodman — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 23:39:05 +0000

Andrew Murawa is the RTC correspondent for the Mountain West and Pac-12 conferences and a Pac-12 microsite writer.

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Coming into the season, New Mexico and UNLV were the clear favorites to be the class of the conference this season, with the other six teams in the conference were littered with question marks. After a little more than a week of the regular season, UNLV has more than lived up to expectations while New Mexico has already stumbled once (to in-state rival New Mexico [...]