All you need to know about the Mountain West, and then some
Aztecs bid adios to Laramie, and it’s 7,220 foot elevation in a convincing win over Wyoming. San Diego State put together a complete game beatdown against Wyoming in their final trip to Laramie. Most teams struggle in the rarified thin air of Laramie, but the Aztecs showed no signs they were oxygen deprived as they […]
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Following the game, let’s look at how each player changed their stock. Keep in mind that information can be hard to come by for players, depending on their performance or their position. If anyone else can find info, please post in the comments. For starters, there were challenges stemming from the Hula Bowl this year […]
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NCAA changes college basketball transfer process with later portal dates, shorter window It’s the topic that never goes away: the transfer portal. Once again, the rules seem to be changing on that front, in this case for college basketball. These windows thankfully seem to be shrinking but expect chaos during that period. The hoops scores […]
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courtesy of UNM Athletics The Pit Remains a Fortress as Lobos Pull Away from GCU 87-64 Mountain West Connection – Roger A. Holien Albuquerque, N.M. — For the second time this week, New Mexico showed why The Pit is one of the toughest places to play in college hoops, breaking open in the second half […]
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Welcome back to the transfer portal team of the week! This is our first true weekly edition of the basketball season, with the top 15 transfers of the week being honored. The format will be a little different than the football counterpart, with only one player being in the spotlight each week. The full “Team […]
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With the 2025 Mountain West football season in the books, that means that the college football season is officially over. Like every year, it all went by too quickly. Now, bowl games are over, and every team has finished their season until next August. With things finalized, let’s review the year with final season grades. […]
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It’s Wednesday, and we are up and running! Keep up with all the basketball news, and we will continue to provide lots of coverage around the transfer portal! See what is coming your way today on our site and around the internet. Football coaches vote unanimously to expand redshirt rule. College football leaders rarely agree […]
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Welcome back everyone to the Hike’s Peak podcast, thank you for coming back to the mountain! We’re finally switching over to basketball, as Mountain West play is kicking into high gear. It’s been a few weeks since we last discussed the contenders that were emerging, so let’s now go over who’s hot and who’s not? […]
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Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the NCAA. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Mountain West fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys. Please take our survey
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The 2025 season is over and we are entering a new era of college football on the west coast with the PAC 12 rebuilding itself with five teams from the Mountain West. Meanwhile, the Mountain West reloaded with the additions of UTEP and Northern Illinois. Over the next few weeks, we are going to take […]
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UH Athletics could be getting $4.1 million in NIL funding The never-ending race for financial support in college athletics continues. Hawaii is looking to the state government for help. In a pleasant surprise, Hawaii football retained the services of Micah Alejado this portal cycle. Hawaii wants to keep that NIL momentum going. The Aggies are […]
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If you missed the latest episode of the Hike’s Peak podcast, we talked to New Mexico star linebacker Jaxton Eck about his historic first season in Albuquerque. Don’t worry if you haven’t gotten to it yet, because the video version has just been uploaded! You can find that below. Graduating from Brookings High School in […]
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Happy Monday, everyone! We are approaching the two-month mark until the Mountain West men’s basketball tournament and Selection Sunday! Time flies — opening night felt like it was yesterday! Anyway, what do our power rankings look like for this week after another week of exciting action?! Let’s dive into it! 1. Utah State Utah State […]
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It’s another week of the Mountain West Recruiting Roundup. The portal has only been open for ten days, but Mountain West teams have packed about a month’s worth of action into the past week, as can be seen below. And as discussed last week, we know that not all transfer players even report offers or […]
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It’s Monday, and it was another great weekend of basketball! Plus, transfer portal updates are happening constantly. News will continue to come your way, and we are here for it all. Check out our original coverage and what we can find from the World Wide Web below. Aggies destroy Broncos Utah State opened the game […]
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The second full week of conference play is behind us and a clear leader has emerged for the conference championship. With that being said, there have been a number of outstanding performances and the race for postseason honors appears to be a tight one. Let’s take a look at which players stood out from this […]
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The Fresno State Bulldogs ended this week with a split in their contests, beating San Jose State 70-55 on Wednesday, and dropped a 71-52 decision to San Diego State on Saturday. In Wednesday’s contest, in which the Bulldogs ended a six-game losing streak, DeShawn Gory ended with a double-double in scoring 16 points and grabbing […]
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After a heartbreaker at home to San Diego State, Nevada needed a win against a Wyoming program that is known to give the Pack trouble. The Cowboys certainly kept that going, being pesky and keeping it close for most of the game, but a career night by Corey Camper and a combined 51 points between […]
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This post is brought to you by FanDuel, proud partner of SBNation. Collins is currently the top MBB player The majority of fans think MJ Collins of Utah State has looked like the best player in the Mountain West this season. And for good reason, as he’s been playing at a high level for the top […]
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Happy Friday, everyone! As we continue forward with the Mountain West men’s basketball season, we will be updating the conference’s bracketology outlook as we approach the big dance in March! Let’s dive into this week’s update! At Large Candidates: Utah State: NET: 16 KenPom: 26 Lunardi: No. 7 seed Bracket Matrix (out of 58 brackets; Jan. 7): […]
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College athletics, once grounded in loyalty, growth, and tradition, now seems more like free agency without guidelines. It is getting to where there have to be more regulations or guidelines for it to survive. College sports are changing at breakneck speed, and not everyone believes it’s for the better. As the transfer portal and NIL […]
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The Broncos take a big dip in the NET Rankings after their loss to Grand Canyon 24 Mountain West players will be in the NFL playoffs Wyoming and Boise State lead the way with five players each. Fresno State isn’t far behind with four players participating in the playoffs. The Broncos flip a Nevada linebacker […]
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Through 16 games, the Boise State Broncos have maintained their status quo on the defensive end of the floor. They have the No. 26-ranked defensive effciency with the nation’s second-highest defensive rebound rate (77.1). While they don’t typically force a ton of turnovers, Leon Rice’s squads have typically been among the sound units defensively in […]
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Every year, the NCAA Selection Committee faces the monumental task of seeding the NCAA Tournament, a decision heavily influenced by complex ranking systems. But what exactly are these systems, and how do they determine a team’s fate? For decades, the NCAA relied on the RPI, but starting in the 2019 season, a new contender emerged: […]
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The 2025 college football season is over, but all-star bowls will be occurring over the next few weeks. The most prominent of these bowls are the Hula Bowl, the American Bowl, the East-West Shrine Game, and the Senior Bowl. This post will focus on the Hula Bowl. These events are used primarily as camps with […]
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