"Las Vegas is a great site for the Mountain West tournament — that has been proven out," Duryea said. "The issue the coaches have had isn't so much that it's in Vegas, but that it's at the Thomas & Mack [Center]. We would like to see a venue change, either to the MGM or to the new arena. It would make it a little less biased toward UNLV. That's the issue the coaches have had."
Duryea is "disappointed" the Mountain West wants to drop three teams from qualifying for the tournament.
"The issue with only eight teams going … is not something that the coaches are in favor of and never will be," he said.