There’s more than one way to win a conference title.
A case in point was last season’s Mountain West women’s basketball chase, during which the University of New Mexico rode high-octane offense to a regular-season title.
Grinding, efficient Wyoming then captured the league’s postseason tournament crown and its automatic NCAA berth.
The Lobos and Cowgirls never squared off during the COVID-impacted 2020-21 season, but they’re scheduled to meet Thursday in Laramie. The teams have little in common stylistically, but both are perennial conference contenders and have a history of playing close, hard-fought games.
“We haven’t seen them in a couple of years but they haven’t changed much,” UNM coach Mike Bradbury said of the Cowgirls.