Sure, we remember how unceremonious the 2021-22 men’s basketball season resulted for the Mountain West collectively.
The conference had as promising of a regular season as possible. It sent four teams to the NCAA Tournament — the most since sending five in 2012-13 — carried potential to not only improve its NCAA Tourney misfortune, but improved it financially.
It did neither. The Mountain West, who are now 22-55 in NCAA Tournament affairs, couldn’t to secure any additional units — which, last season, ended up being north of a $330K payment — after bottoming out at 0-4.