Get To Know a College Basketball Mid-Major: Mountain West

You know all about the Power 5 conferences in college basketball. You hear about those more than any other, and those groups often dominate the March Madness conversation. There are 26 other conferences out there, however, and our goal is to get you up to speed on the teams, players and fights in the standings to know before the conference tournaments, Selection Sunday and the official start of March Madness. It’s time for you to get to know a mid-major: this time, it’s the Mountain West. The Mountain West formed in 1998, with all eight of its original members coming over from the Western Athletic Conference as part of a larger NCAA realignment happening at the time. It has 12 teams now —...