John Scott

@byu_church @WCCSG_ Bro look at the question again….

@WCCSG_ It would have to be North Dakota State given they play in a small dome. Few people show up to watch the New Mexico teams, same problem at San Jose St, Nevada, and UNLV. Northern Illinois draws poorly, so let’s go with Texas State as runner up

Who has the loudest football Stadium in the new Mountain West? 🏈

@RyanDBerryman @NITMBB RB, as a season ticket holder & Pit West pass holder I want to thank you for moving mountains to be able to host the game tonight. Pit was awesome as always and the seniors deserved this send off. Great work, thanks RB.

What a thrill! I am so proud of our student-athletes, coaches, and staff for their efforts to keep this special season going. @NITMBB Final 4, here we come! 🐺 #GoLobos

@eequeteesher505 @cervezalobo Two things: 1. He could have left after yr #2 and stayed to deliver a MW title, & an NCAA win all while being the MVP. 2. Never begrudge a 22 year old man from accepting the opportunity to earn $3M. System sucks but don’t blame the kid for doing what any reasonable man would do

@cervezalobo I hate to be a negative Nancy, but he did leave us. It’s not like he stayed his whole career or anything. There are so many Lobo guards throughout history that played their entire career and played better than Dent. Great player and person, but a Lobo Legend is a stretch.

Lobo royalty Donny Dent in The Pit tonight.

@dlishhhh @skolrays @jerebearlanger @ryanhammer09 That’s more of a creation of all the other MW schools than a real reason coaches leave. There hasn’t been a single coach (that hasn’t been fired) that left to go to a parallel opportunity or a downgrade job wise simply because ABQ sucks.

@Tacoeldosscotty @skolrays @jerebearlanger @ryanhammer09 I’m just saying Albuquerque is a contributing factor to why coaches leave.

If I’m Utah State, some of the names I like… Bob Richey (Furman) Eric Olen (New Mexico) ———————————— Russell Turner (UC Irvine) Takayo Siddle (UNCW) Chris Victor (Seattle) Flynn Clayman (High Point) Eran Ganot (Hawaii) Jeremy Shulman (UT Martin)

@dlishhhh @skolrays @jerebearlanger @ryanhammer09 Olen will eventually leave because his career trajectory will take him to a P5 school. He won’t leave b/c ABQ sucks. He, like most UNM coaches, lives in Tanoan which is extremely exclusive. Some P5 will offer to triple his salary and provide 5X the NIL. That’s why he’ll leave.

@Tacoeldosscotty @skolrays @jerebearlanger @ryanhammer09 Yes, there’s a reason that state is solely used for blowing stuff up. Olen will be outta there soon

@dlishhhh @skolrays @jerebearlanger @ryanhammer09 Derek, serious question, have you ever been to Albuquerque in your life? If you have, tell me all you can about Tanoan…

@skolrays @jerebearlanger @ryanhammer09 Oh no Logan isn’t a super desirable place to live either. But better than Albuquerque

@ryanhammer09 @skolrays More PAC12 delusion. The PAC is a mid major with one sure fire bid in Gonzaga every year and then possibly 1-2 additional bids depending on the year. Does anybody ever ask why coaches find it so easy to leave Logan?

@skolrays Not sure tbh. Usu going to pac 12 UNM not so I think it’s absolutely a possibility

@ryanhammer09 Eric Olen is not leaving New Mexico for Utah State. Utah State is not an upgrade from UNM

@AggieButthead Eric Olen is not leaving New Mexico for Utah State.

Get Eric Olen Starting lineup of: Jake Hall Mason Falslev P5 transfer wing Karson Templin Tomislav Buljan That team goes further next year than we did this year 👀👀👀👀👀👀 #AggiesAllTheWay

@MeserveRic67130 @CSURamT a city (San Diego) and an arena (Viejas) that they played in during MW play 3 weeks ago instead of being sent to Buffalo was a nice perk. I wish UNM & SDSU would have made it but their #’s didn’t support it. The seed ceiling for USU might have been a 7.

@MeserveRic67130 @CSURamT Every bracketology available to man had USU as an 8 or 9 seed for just about the entire last month of the season. Their bracket projection average over more than 100 brackets in the final week was 8.45 so a 9 seed wasn’t so far off. Throw in that they got to play in (cont)

If Utah State was a 5 or 6 seed like they probably should have been, they are headed to the Sweet 16 & maybe even Elite 8. They got a tough draw and were way better than it, as has been typical of MW teams over the years. Looking forward to new PAC12 where it is a top 5 MBB conf.

@CSURamT @B_Rog505 Dude, there are going to be 56 conference games in the PAC next year. That means there are 56 losses to spread around the 8 teams. FSU, OSU, & WSU will absorb a portion of those but a PAC team with 5,6,7 conf losses is going to be on the bubble every time.

@B_Rog505 @Tacoeldosscotty There will always be an East Coast and Elitist 4 bias that impacts the bids and seeding, but at least the fat at the bottom is trimmed, and the ceiling is higher in the PAC12, so that can only help by comparison.

@CSURamT @AdamDroge Exactly my point, the PAC will have slightly better overall numbers but not enough to make the 2nd or 3rd place team any higher than a 7,8,9 seed and that’s assuming the top team is Gonzaga with their standard 2,3,4 seed. PAC is not going to get P4 (not Big East) seeding

@Tacoeldosscotty @AdamDroge 5 year averages in the NET: Wazzu - 76.2 Oregon St - 162.0 Texas St - 166.6 Fresno St - 168.4 By comparison to the Big East, Wazzu's 5 year average is comparable to Seton Hall. OSU, Texas St, and Fresno St all have higher Net Rankings than Georgetown and Depaul.

@MeserveRic67130 @CSURamT Seeding has NOTHING to do with previous tourney results. Seeding has NOTHING to do with previous tourney results. Seeding has NOTHING to do with previous tourney results. Seeding has NOTHING to do with previous tourney results. Seeding has NOTHING to do with previous…

@CSURamT The MW needed teams other than SDSU to get out of the 1st round to be considered for better seeding. The PAC will need teams not named Gonzaga or SDSU to do the same if they want to be considered a top 5 MBB conference.

@CSURamT @AdamDroge Talk to me about the average NET rankings of Fresno St, Texas St, Washington St, and Oregon State over the last three years…. Try doing it without excuses for WSU & OSU since they played in a three bid league this year. I’ll wait…

@AdamDroge The average NCAA Net over the last 5 years for AF (260), SJSU (219), Wyo 110, UNLV (91), UNM (65), Nevada (61) is all lower than 4 of the 5 members leaving the MW for the PAC12.

@CSURamT @B_Rog505 Now tell me outside of UCONN & St John’s, how did the Big East do in terms of bids & seeds the last few years? Truth is, being the 5th or 6th best conf in this era of BB is essentially the exact same. PAC will get 2-3 bids on average & outside of GU & SDSU, seeds will be low

@B_Rog505 NCAA NET metrics averaged out over the last 5 years have them better than the Big East.

@SCOTTLAKE0 MW will be a two bid league in most years. UNM, Nev, & GCU will always be close to the bubble. If UNLV learns how to not screw themselves with bad non conference losses they will be in the mix too. Hawaii will be decent as will Wyoming so I guess we’ll see

Our time of paying child support to the rest of the MW is almost up and they know it!!!

@PhilipTortora Try living in the mountain & pacific time zones. Many of our regular season games start at 9:00 or later to meet TV windows on the east coast These are college kids, if they weren’t hooping at that time they would be home playing their X-Box until 2:00am Fans are the victims

No NCAA sanctioned sporting events should start after 9:00 pm local time. The UConn-Furman game having to tip off close to 10:30 pm Eastern is absolutely absurd and not fair to the student-athletes on either team.

@Bigmacmurph I was there, that game was bad for sure 36-13 discrepancy for USU in FTAs in the USU/Nova game was a bit much IMO. I’m simply suggesting that all the USU fans complimenting today’s refs is not surprising given those numbers Yes Nova shot a ton of 3’s but 2pt FGAs were 35-33 USU

@Tacoeldosscotty A total of 49 free throws were taken. Compare that with the 86 taken during the Nevada vs GCU quarterfinal in the Mountain West tournament this year, or the 62 that occurred in the USU vs New Mexico game at the end of the regular season.

Utah State probably had one of the highest foul rates in the country coming into the NCAA tournament and suddenly they barely get called for fouls. I think that is very telling on the quality of reffing in the Mountain West.