MWC Title All But in the Trophy Case
It's going to be awfully hard to stop the Utes, now.
That impressive victory over UNLV last night all but assures at least a share of the Mountain West Conference title, unless the Utes shock everybody by losing their last three games. Even if the 20-7 Utes simply win their only remaining home game against TCU in the regular-season finale, both Brigham Young and New Mexico would have to win the rest of their games to simply draw even, and force a tie-breaker for the No. 1 seed at the league tournament.
Yet if the Utes can beat either the Cougars or Lobos on the road in the next five days, they will secure the top seed in the tournament even without a home win against TCU -- since that would give them the tie-breaking edge against either team, in all but one potential scenario.
And that would be a nice advantage.
The top seed gets to play at noon on the first day of the tournament, against one of the two worst teams in the league, probably either Colorado State or Air Force. Then, it would enjoy the most rest between games of any team in the field, the rest of the way.
At any rate, my colleague noted today the big role the seniors have played in the increasingly amazing season, while the Rebels have shifted their focus to winning three games in three days at the league tournament in order to reach the NCAA Tournament.
That impressive victory over UNLV last night all but assures at least a share of the Mountain West Conference title, unless the Utes shock everybody by losing their last three games. Even if the 20-7 Utes simply win their only remaining home game against TCU in the regular-season finale, both Brigham Young and New Mexico would have to win the rest of their games to simply draw even, and force a tie-breaker for the No. 1 seed at the league tournament.
Yet if the Utes can beat either the Cougars or Lobos on the road in the next five days, they will secure the top seed in the tournament even without a home win against TCU -- since that would give them the tie-breaking edge against either team, in all but one potential scenario.
And that would be a nice advantage.
The top seed gets to play at noon on the first day of the tournament, against one of the two worst teams in the league, probably either Colorado State or Air Force. Then, it would enjoy the most rest between games of any team in the field, the rest of the way.
At any rate, my colleague noted today the big role the seniors have played in the increasingly amazing season, while the Rebels have shifted their focus to winning three games in three days at the league tournament in order to reach the NCAA Tournament.
posted by www.sltrib.com @ 9:51 AM |
4 Comments:
I would love to see the Utes get one of two on this upcoming road trip and take home an outright conference championship.
I see Mark Schlabach of ESPN says the Utes are now a lock for the NCAA tourneyment. Still going in with more momentum can't hurts.
http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/
Hey, about time for Schlabach to join the party! We've been saying that for WEEKS now ... :-)
Michael
Still trying to figure out how the Utes don't rank above the Zags and Tigers.
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