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Mountain West Conference Preview
Posted: Thursday October 24, 2002 4:18 PM
Updated: Tuesday November 19, 2002 1:52 PM
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The following preview is provided by Blue Ribbon. For the most thorough preview available of the upcoming season, order the 2002-03 Blue Ribbon College Basketball Yearbook, on sale now at 1-800-775-2518.
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Blue Ribbon Forecast |
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Team |
'01-02 Conf.
Rec. (Overall) |
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Wyoming |
11-3 (21-8) |
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Utah |
10-4 (21-8) |
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UNLV |
9-5 (20-10) |
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BYU |
7-7 (17-11) |
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San Diego State |
7-7 (21-11) |
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Colorado State |
3-11 (12-18) |
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New Mexico |
6-8 (16-13) |
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Air Force |
3-11 (9-19) |
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G: Ruben Douglas
SR, New Mexico
F: Dalron Johnson
SR, UNLV
F: Marcus Bailey
SR, Wyoming
F: Britton Johnson
SR, Utah
C: Uche Nsonwu-Amade
SR, Wyoming
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Marcus Bailey
SR, Wyoming
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Demetrius Hunter
JR, UNLV
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1. UNLV
2. Wyoming
3. San Diego State
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1. Wyoming
2. Utah
3. UNLV
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| 2002-03 Conference Tournament |
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March 13-15, Thomas & Mack Center, Las Vegas, NV
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Postseason Record
3-6 (.333)
NCAA
Wyoming (Second round)
Utah
San Diego State
NIT
BYU (Second round)
UNLV (Second round)
New Mexico
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- Last year Wyoming became the first team in MWC history to win 11 league games and the first to win five road games.
- Seventy-five percent of the league (6-of-8 teams) participated in postseason play and the league earned three NCAA bids for the first time in its brief history.
- The MWC went 77-41 in non-conference action, including postseason play.
- The 77 non-conference wins were an all-time high.
- The league had a record nine overtime games last season and every team played at least one extra session game. UNLV went 3-1 in OT.
- You want competitiveness? Thirty-eight of the MWC's 56 regular-season conference games were decided by 10 points or fewer, 28 by seven or fewer and 21 by five points or fewer.
- BYU enters the season with a nation's best 36-game home winning streak.
- The Cougars' last loss at the Marriott Center was a 78-74 setback against New Mexico on Feb. 17, 2000.
- Eight of the 10 players voted first or second team All-MWC last season return.
- Ritchie McKay, who took over at New Mexico for the departed Fran Fraschilla, is the league's only new coach and even he isn't that new. McKay was Colorado State's head coach during the 1998-1999 and 1999-2000 seasons.
- Colorado State and Air Force are the only teams not to have won a MWC Tournament game.
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