This is ridiculous. How does a team with a 35 Rpi and 35th rated Strength of schedule not make the tourney. Maybe they didn’t win enough games? This team went 21-9 and came within a basket of winning the conference tournament against a team that ended up getting a 5 seed. The same team beat BYU a night before to reach the finals. BYU got in as an 8 seed but somehow San Diego St got left out in the cold.

The Mountain West is constantly overlooked on a national level but as the bowl season in football shows us, it shouldn’t be that way. Utah is seeded high at a 5 if you ask me. But how can you seed Utah at #5 and then have San Diego st not make it and get punished by having 2 losses to Utah? It makes no sense.

Meanwhile MInnesota gets in and Wisconsin gets in. People talk about Arizona and rightfully so but Minnesota doesn’t belong this year and they got a 10 seed and I’m not sure how. They beat Louisville but that was early and at home and if the same game were played today I’d bet my life on Louisville to win.

I feel bad for the Mountain West because in a year where they felt they could get 4 in, they only get the usual 2. If they have a good showing this year that may change for next year but who wants to wait a year for the right thing to happen. San Diego St won’t care about next year.

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