As of December 9th
Utah State is #37.
Aggies non-conference opponents
Houston is #14.
Arizona State is #29.
St. Mary's is #66.
BYU is #98.
UCI is #99.
Weber State is #152.
Utah Valley is #166.
UNI is #227.
Hartford is #243.
Montana State is #329.
Alabama State is #336.
MVST is #342.
Eastern Oregon is D2.
There are 353 teams in D1.

Mountain West in the Net rankings
Nevada is #6.
Utah State is #37.
Fresno State is #65.
San Diego State is #107.
UNLV is #158.
New Mexico is #168.
Boise State is #211.
Colorado State is #228.
Wyoming is #232.
Air Force is #245.
San Jose State is #299.

Our 1 game in-conference teams are Boise State (road) and UNLV (home).

Shaping up to be the Mountain Worst this year. Yikes.

If we can get Houston on the road, we will be in people's brackets as an at-large. The St. Mary's win is looking better and better. BYU was a top 100 team on the road and ASU is highly rated.

usu99 wrote: ↑

December 9th, 2018, 5:54 pm

Shaping up to be the Mountain Worst this year. Yikes.

I hope the conference will take a close look at the causes for the near-collapse of MWC basketball. It was just about seven months ago that Gonzaga was seriously considering a move to the MWC, but the WCC looks to be clearly stronger this year.

The WCC currently has an overall record of 70-32 while the MWC is at 55-43.

Here are a few more data points:
Teams with winning record:
MWC - 5 (of 11)
WCC - 9 (of 10)

Top 100 teams in NET rankings:
MWC - 3
WCC - 6

If you were to drop the bottom MWC team (SJSU), order them according to NET rankings and then pair up the remaining 10 teams in each conference in a MWC-WCC challenge, the NET rankings would say that all WCC teams would be favored except that #10 Air Force would be ahead of #10 Santa Clara.