Starting in 2017, the Mountain West basketball tournaments for both the men and women’s side will move from 11 teams down to only eight, excluding three teams per year.
Back in December, Wyoming Cowboys head coach Larry Shyatt was reprimanded for his public comments on the decision, saying, “I’m very disappointed, but it is what it is,” Shyatt said. “We knew months ago, even though there is a so-called search, we knew it was all about money. We knew many, many months ago it was going to end up back at Thomas & Mack. We, simply put, do not have the money to do certain things.