The Colorado State women’s basketball team will be the favorite to win the Mountain West until the Rams give us a reason to think otherwise.
The back-to-back conference champs were selected to finish first in the MW preseason poll after winning 23 games and going 15-3 in conference last season. The Rams are led in the quest for a three-peat by head coach Ryun Williams, the 2014 MW Coach of the Year.
“We don’t put a lot of stock into those preseason rankings,” Williams said in a press release from CSU Athletics. “This is an entirely different team with an entirely different identity; we are going to have to prove ourselves, so that’s our mentality.