The Mountain West was one of the most competitive conferences in the country this season, but its teams were seeded lower than expected in the NCAA men’s tournament.
Isaiah Stevens and Colorado State will face Virginia in an opening-round NCAA tournament game Tuesday night in Dayton, Ohio. LAS VEGAS — An eccentric land with a 12-member committee in a meeting room auditing basketball CVs for a Selection Sunday often supplies the phenomenon of aggrievedwent from a hothouse of a season to a madhouse of a conference tournament to a funhouse of six bids to, oh no, a bummer at the seedings of those bids.
The committee hurled two of the teams — Boise State and Colorado State — into the annual four-team holding pen in Dayton. It placed tournament champion New Mexico as a No. 11, regular season runner-up Nevada as a No. 10 and regular season champion Utah State as a No. 8. San Diego State , the kingpin program thatIt told of the untold fights they had all winter that the Nos.
While bracketologists around the land joined the chorus of surprise at the seedings, the Mountain West had become one of those conferences with teams sick enough of each other that they might benefit from seeing somebody else.
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