It doesn’t quite have the usual opening day feel, even in a sport that doesn’t exactly ever have much of an opening day feel.
Tuesday is the scheduled first day of the Mountain West men’s basketball conference schedule. But, once again, COVID, and more specifically this time around the omicron variant, is taking a bite out of the winter sport.
As of Monday evening, six of the league’s 11 members have at least one of their first two scheduled MWC games postponed due to two programs — No. 20 Colorado State and San Jose State — currently on pause due to covid cases in their programs.