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Mountain West basketball tournaments cut to 8, remain in Las Vegas

The 11-team Mountain West will only include the top eight teams in its men's and women's conference tournaments starting in 2017, the league announced Friday.

The conference's Board of Directors approved the recommendation from its Competition, Ethics and Sportsmanship Committee.

"The decision by the Board to feature the top eight men's and women's teams in the MW Basketball Championships is consistent with a broader Mountain West Conference initiative emphasizing performance-based competitive excellence," MW commissioner Craig Thompson said in a release. "Similar approaches are being implemented in other MW championships based upon the best interests of those particular sports.