So I took a three month hiatus - It's allowed me to center myself and dedicate my efforts to watching new fall TV series, examine how crazy good the Lakers will be this year and reliably predict how the Mountain West Conference will play out. Even though team have played a few games, I think I throw my predictions out there. Without further ado, here it is:
You gotta have BYU, Utah and UNLV a small notch above everyone else. BYU returns too many good players in Tavernari and Jimmer Fredette (which sounds like a complication of the swine flu virus) and Utah has some talent back as well. UNLV has the most new faces to assimilate but if Jasper and Stanback are only 70 percent as good as advertised, they'll be as good as they were last year. From the first couple of games, you can tell that this is as athletic as the Rebs have been in years, definitely since Bayno was run out of town. On the second deck, just a tiny notch below is San Diego St and New Mexico. Both these teams make me nervous. This is Alford's third year, which should be his breakout year and I really think they might make a run in February and March to get in. If they can get some quality wins out of conference, watch out for them. The Aztecs are as usual, very talented but they lose much of their experience and leadership that got them within a game of the dance last year. TCU probably belongs in this category as well and they have some players that made some noise last year still here. Colorado State and Air Force have pretty low expectations. Either team will be lucky to win a league game on the road. Wyoming is the X factor and will ruin some teams hope to dance.
I really hope the conference can win some good games out of conference this year so that when they beat each other up in league play, the league doesn't take the RPI hit that it did last year when only BYU and Utah got in.
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