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“MOUNTAIN WEST HOOPS-WORTH WATCHING”
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Our lives have been swamped by the up and down nights we have had to live thru at San Diego State.
Fans have missed how wild the entire MWC season has been, and the fact there have been 7-pretty good basketball teams, taking time knocking each other off all year long.
Entering this week’s Conference tourney, anyone could have won, and that’s why we had upsets.
The Aztecs had too many athletes, too much defense, too much fire in their gut, and jumped over Colorado State, in posting a win in a must win game.
it was Miles Byrd, it was Magoon Gwath, it was Pharaoh Compton and it was a level of intensity we have not seen in a long while. SDSU pushed the tempo, attacked the paint, and gave the Rams no breathing room to run their offense in what was a pretty strong 40-minutes of hell they created.
It wasn’t perfect as we watched a 16-point lead drop to seven…and watched SDSU go (22-42) at the free throw line. And the Rams hit 13-3s to comeback into the game. But they had to win and they did win…but.
But it only counts for one win, so we see if they can duplicate it Friday night against New Mexico.
There were surprises though. Grand Canyon was not playing at home, and GCU is now home for good, losing their opening round game to Nevada-Reno, letting the Wolfpack score 50-points in 20-minutes in the second half.
You need to figure how Boise State could lose to an (8-23) woe-begone San Jose State team, but they did.
Eric Olen has done such a fantastic job in year one at New Mexico with all these players he hauled into the Pit to continue the tradition in Loboland.
Utah State is really good and really explosive, led by Mason Falsev. Just ask UNLV, who have alot of young players with their future infront of them.. Sadly Jarrad Calhoun may be leaving USU for the Kansas State job.
Wyoming is getting better and better under a dynamic coach and recruiter in Sundance Wicks too.
Dynamic players, transfers, some recruits from Europe. The final year of the old MWC as we knew it, and big games still to be played Friday-Saturday. You’d think a couple of these teams deserve to hear their names mentioned on Selection Sunday.
And speaking of hoops, UCLA on a heater, pushing (22-10) and playing well since Mick Cronin’s meltdown.
Coming home, in a bit of a dark cloud, Eric Musselman’s season crashed and burned at the end, a combo of bad injuries and bad attitudes, and an 8-game losing streak stabled to the roster and another non-March Madness season for the Trojans.
And of course, the shocker of the day, Miami of Ohio’s (31-0) season crashes with a loss in the Mid American Conference tourney, a first round loss to U-Mass. No Quad 1-wins, the 346th ranked schedule. Alot of people don’t think they deserve to even be a play in team in Dayton next week.
It’s wild. It’s March Madness.
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