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College Baseball Tournament Projections: May 13th. Oregon State, San Diego State, Gonzaga appear to be in good shape.
Mountain West (and beyond) NCAA baseball tournament projections will be new every week leading up to the College World Series. This seems like the natural step to continue our baseball coverage, and mirrors the bowl projections and bracketology we do with our football and basketball coverage, respectively. For those who aren’t familiar, 64 teams make […]
Spartan promise, plateau or one last push? SJSU baseball’s 2026 season nears a defining final weekend
If 2026 San Jose State baseball has felt like a season of almosts, that’s because it largely has been. Coming off a 2025 campaign that restored postseason belief and reinforced Brad Sanfilippo’s culture of competitiveness, the Spartans entered this spring carrying cautious optimism but realistic Mountain West limitations. Our own MW Connection team’s preseason outlook […]
Is the sun setting on conference championships?
Way back in 1992, the SEC played the first conference championship game. Every few years, another conference would add one, and all major conferences have held them since 2018. In fact, as some may remember, conferences that weren’t hosting a championship game were looked down upon for their lack of schedule, and a few conferences […]
Mountaintop View 5-13-26
Evansville’s Connor Turnbull has transferred to Utah State UNM Football roster now down to 94 In some roster moves on Tuesday, the New Mexico Lobos are entering the summer with 94 players on their roster, down from the previous week. Gage Brook embracing new role Wyoming’s Gage Brook asked to move from quarterback to tight […]
From Spartan beginnings, remembering Memphis Grizzlies Brandon Clarke’s rise from SJSU
The sudden loss of NBA player Brandon Clarke at the age of 29 immediately shifted the conversation from basketball production to something larger: how a basketball career unfolds, how quickly it can change and how incomplete public stories often are. The Memphis Grizzlies, the NBA, and Clarke’s representatives confirmed his death with no official cause […]
Transfer Spotlight Special Part TWO! Top 12 Forwards/Big Men entering the MW/PAC! Scouting reports, projections, & our highest rated prospect EVER! HP Ep. #154 OUT NOW!
Welcome back everyone, to the Hike’s Peak Podcast, thank you for coming back to the mountain! Last week, we went over the top 12 incoming transfer guards entering the Mountain West and PAC 12, and this time around, we’re talking about the forwards and big men. Like part one, this episode will have players coming […]
The Good, the Bad, the Ugly: Offensive Line
We have reached the point in the off-season where spring football has concluded and fans are starting to have a better understanding of what their team’s depth chart may look like. With that, we are going to start looking at specific position groups across the PAC 12 and Mountain West. With our coverage shifting to […]
Mountaintop View 5-12-26
McFeely: Opponents matter in college football and Bison got an upgrade Mike McFeely of The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead writes an opinion piece on North Dakota State football (free account required to read). NDSU’s abrupt FCS exit for the Mountain West surely created some mixed feelings amongst fans, but McFeely makes it clear: the upgrade in […]
“Blue turf in my bathroom?”: How memorabilia fits in the financial world of college sports
Boise State University took the phrase “cutting a rug” to new heights this past week, selling their football dance floor of iconic blue turf online as they prepare for a new field surface to be installed in June. An auction that appeared as clever fan service for the Bronco community quickly cranked up the dial, […]
Mountain West Connection Baseball Power Rankings: Week 13
With two weeks left in the season, all of the Mountain West had some sort of playoff implications play out. UNLV and GCU made it interesting with San Jose State, as all three programs are within a game of each other after their series against Fresno State, New Mexico and San Diego State and are […]
MWCConnection Recruiting Roundup 5-11-26. Pac-12 May Team Rankings.
It’s another week of the Recruiting Roundup. As we get into May, official visits will begin by the end of the month and continue into June. Teams are continuing to load up on June OVs, which will make for a huge recrutiing month. Stay tuned for that. This week, teams were busy during the evaluation […]
Could the MWC become streaming only soon?
The adage has all but turned old now. You know the one, “streaming is the future of television.” Yeah, that one. Some embrace the idea of cutting the cord. Some complain that it is turning into cable all over again. Needing to subscribe to multiple streaming services just to watch what they want. For sports […]
Mountaintop View 5-11-26. Football Playoff Expansion, New Mexico Preview, Softball Champs, March Madness, Golf Awards
It’s Monday, and college baseball and softball are getting closer to tournament time. Also, there is always football news happening. But our coverage is still going strong. Check out our original coverage and what we can find from the World Wide Web below. Which is worse: CFP or March Madness expansion? The Athletic tackles this […]
GCU Softball Chosen as #3 Seed in Lincoln Regional, Nevada In First Four Out
The GCU Lopes and Nevada Wolf Pack learned their NCAA Tournament fates today. The conference champion Lopes will head to Lincoln, Nebraska as what amounts to a regional 9-seed, facing #8-seeded Louisville in the first round. Meanwhile, the Wolf Pack’s horrific weekend somehow got even worse, missing the tournament as expected, but doing so as […]
AZTEC BASKETBALL FILLS ROSTER, PREPARES FOR NEW LEAGUE PLAY
San Diego State basketball making additions to roster after departures Aztec Coach Dutcher taps into European market for experience There’s never any rest for a full time college coach. Maneuvering recruiting, the TP (Transfer Portal), NIL and any other myriad assortment of responsibilities, a coach’s job can be 24/7/365. Enter Brian Dutcher, who like a […]
Lopes and Dreams: GCU Claims 2026 MW Softball Title, Overcomes Nine-Run Deficit to Beat Nevada, 11-10, In Extras
Grand Canyon defeated Nevada in the first game of the MW Championship Series, forcing a decisive, winner-takes-all affair to determine who would take home the conference title, and with it, the autobid into the NCAA Tournament. GCU was essentially locked in regardless, but Nevada would need to take this one home to extend their season. […]
Vickers Dominates Nevada, GCU Forces Game 2 with 3-0 Win
After all the buildup and months of trials and tribulations, we have finally reached the Mountain West Softball Championship. Appropriately, this ended up being a matchup between the two best teams in the conference all year, and two teams that will remain in the Mountain West in 2027: Grand Canyon and Nevada. The former, in […]
Mountain West Reacts Results: Softball Tournament, Baseball Champions.
This post is brought to you by FanDuel, proud partner of SBNation. Grand Canyon tourney champs? The Lopes softball team has had a great first year in the Mountain West, taking home the regular-season championship. They are now hoping to win the tournament championship, too, and are in great shape so far. Fans believe they will […]
Lopes Survive Lobos Again, 11-7, Advance to MW Championship
The final game of the third day of the 2026 Mountain West Softball Tournament was a rematch of the first game yesterday: 4-seeded New Mexico against 1-seeded GCU. The Lobos went into this game looking for redemption in the worst way, having lost their first game to the Lopes with a blown four-run lead in […]
New Mexico Shuts Out UNLV 5-0, Advances Into Rematch With Top-Seeded GCU
The second game of day two of the 2026 MW Softball Tournament was delayed due to the length of the previous game between Nevada and GCU. The teams that each of those teams defeated in Round 2: UNLV and New Mexico, respectively, began playing after them in the first elimination game of the loser’s bracket. […]
Offense, McLean Unstoppable: Nevada Downs GCU 14-10
Day three of the 2026 Mountain West Softball Tournament kicked off with the winner’s bracket final matchup between tournament host Nevada and regular-season champion Grand Canyon. Nevada was the lone team to defeat GCU in a regular-season series, which was surely on the minds of both teams entering this game. This game quickly revealed itself […]
Weekend Walkup: Falcons versus Cougars, Aztecs versus Spartans & more in the penultimate regular season weekend
Each week, we here at Mountain West Connection will briefly preview every series going on in the conference, detailing how each team is going into the series and a key item to note that we feel will dictate the winner. Afterwards, if there are any non-conference series going on, we will go through each series […]
How do these 2 players improve stock at NBA G-League combine?
We don’t dip our toes into the NBA waters very often, but we’re less than two months away from the 2026 NBA Draft! Once again, there are multiple former Mountain West players testing their waters, specifically in the G-League combine, which will begin Friday and last through Sunday in Chicago, Ill. What do these two […]
Friday Five: Top 5 Pac-12 Football Head Coaches
Hello again, Group of Six western football fans. The month of May presses on. Spring ball is finished, summer workouts haven’t started yet. This is the quiet month of the college football calendar. The Mountain West is set to split this summer with the “departing five” leaving to create the reformed Pac-12. The Mountain West […]
Mountaintop View 5-8-26: NCAA Tournament Expansion and How It Will Look, Bowl Projections, Boise State Basketball
The NCAA Tournament is officially expanding to 76 teams Boise State Basketball gets a big non-conference game CBS Sports has some interesting bowl projections NDSU to the Playoff? UNLV and Boise State in the Pointsettia Bowl? Stay tuned for more coverage from Mountain West Connection!
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