Call it the biggest Mountain West women’s basketball matchup of 2022 — so far anyway.
Not quite a full week into conference play, just four teams remain unbeaten in MWC play. Two of them, UNLV (10-3, 2-0) and New Mexico (10-4, 1-0), square off Monday night at the Pit.
Early records aside, it stacks up as a significant battle in the league race. UNM, the defending regular-season Mountain West champ, was picked to finish second this season. UNLV, which finished second in 2020-21, was picked to finish third this time around.
The Lobos and Rebels also rank as the MWC’s top two scoring teams, with UNLV averaging three-tenths of a point more than UNM at 74.