Each week you can make a case for a team in the Mountain West to win the conference tournament, and you see a performance that makes you hesitant about another top team, or the team that you thought might win the conference last week.
There is no question that the conference is as deep as it’s ever been, meaning any team could win on any given night, or any team could lose on any night. But the top teams have slightly separated themselves from the rest of the conference. There are five teams that could legitimately win the conference tournament and make the NCAA Tournament as at-larges, one of those teams was picked to finish in eighth place in the preseason.