The Mountain West was part of a 6-conference western referee consortium that fell apart when the Pac-12 disintegrated
You might be seeing some new officiating faces at Viejas Arena next season. The Mountain West is finalizing a deal to join the Big Ten’s basketball officiating consortium, several sources inside and outside the conference confirmed. The idea is to maximize trips west by referees with USC, UCLA, Oregon and Washington moving to the Big Ten in 2024-25. The Mountain West was previously part of the Western Basketball Officiating Consortium with the Pac-12, WCC, Big West, Big Sky and WAC.
was the lone dissenting vote, arguing that adding two conference games further limits the ability to build a nonconference resume worthy of an NCAA Tournament at-large bid. The other schools say they struggle finding nonconference games and prefer a balanced Mountain West schedule, where everyone plays everyone else twice.
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