2023-24 college basketball previews: Mountain West
Our perfect conference, please change nothing thank you
PREVIOUSLY: Intro: Parallax, Previews Part One, Previews Part Two, Previews Part Three, Previews Part Four, Previews Part Five.
Hello! This is Part Six of our multi-week conference preview series. Today’s previews cover the AAC, West Coast Conference, and Mountain West, which are ordered using KenPom’s conference rankings. These are all separate posts, because we are finally to the portion of these that are both pretty long and require their own address. This one is for the AAC, aka the American Athletic Conference. You know the one.
All of these conferences, barring a disaster, will get two teams in the 2024 NCAA Tournament. The problem is I cannot guarantee any of them get more than the two. There’s interesting-enough depth in each to where a third could emerge, but on opening night, it’s more likely than not that these are multi-bid conferences in a very specific sense.
I’ll even throw you a bone on these by giving you the order of finish:
Mountain West
Tier 1
San Diego State
New Mexico
Tier 2
Colorado State
UNLV
Boise State
Nevada
Tier 3
Fresno State
Utah State
Wyoming
San Jose State
Air Force
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Time to cook! Or whatever the kids say.