Monday, March 7, 2016

Mark Ziegler pulls no punches

Mark Ziegler: "...SDSU has separated itself in recent years from the Mountain West pack, but one of the conference’s strengths was always its equality at the top. Look at the one-bid leagues across the county. Many of them have a single dominant program and a bunch of pretenders. With BYU and Utah long gone, UNLV and New Mexico are the only other true “basketball schools” able to devote the resources required to raise the conference’s national profile.

Both are train wrecks. The Rebels have been reduced to an interim coach, five scholarship players and a guy who was working the front desk at the Wynn hotel. The Lobos are 3-13 over the last two Februarys and have a head coach on skating on melting ice amid whispers of wholesale transfers. UNLV could miss the postseason for a third straight year, New Mexico for a second straight.

Most schools in the Mountain West don’t have the history or pedigree or money or fan base or arenas to compete at a high level in men’s basketball. Three currently do. And only one currently is..."

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