This is a nice game for us. NDSU is a good mid-major program. They went 27-8 last year and one of their loses was to at Davis 80-68. That was a good win for us early in the season. The big difference in the game was that the Bison shot a miserable 3-27 from beyond the arc compared to us going 8-16. Connor Sevilla had his one of his best games as an Aggie shooting 8 of 20 overall from the field including 6-7 from 3 and 4-4 from the line for 26 points.

If Sevilla can stay healthy this year he could have a great, final season for us but he'll also have to contend with the bigger players in the MW guarding him. He got off to a hot start last season but was slowed down by injuries later in the season and Big West teams started focusing on taking him out of the game and playing him very physical. I imagine that the MW teams may try and defend him like that this season also.

Schedule so far that we know:

vs Incarnate Word on Nov 11
at Sac State on Nov 15 at 5 pm
vs Alabama State on Nov 17
at North Dakota State on Dec 3
vs Cal Baptist on Dec 14
vs Idaho State on Dec 17 at 6 pm

Agree on the demand for posts. Don’t agree on the roster. You win with age and experience. The inbound guys have neither and the international players always struggle on the defensive end with physical play. The inability to bring in anyone that has had success at any level of college basketball is alarming and points to some reputation/culture issues (and a lack of money). I don’t see this group as an upgrade from last year and the comp has gone up a notch.

CBSSN and FS2 are in a lot of households but almost nobody tunes in to those channels. And with how they stack events you usually lose half the game to the truck race or frisbee contest that went long prior to tip. This is a downgrade from ESPN+ in a lot of respects.

I’d be fine with this group + Wilson and cooper. But truly not feeling hopeful with the step up in play.

Gut says we have a mediocre BW roster about to enter MW play.

Are we full now or is there any room for additions?

Feels like there might be room for another, maybe a walk-on. Clearly a lot of unknowns with this group.

Here are the basketball tournament brackets and schedule:

Mountain West Announces 2027 Credit Union 1 Men's & Women's Basketball Championships Brackets

Seeding for the postseason championship is determined by the regular season with the top six seeds receiving a bye into the quarterfinals on the second day of competition.

The updated bracket will begin the Conference tournament with the No. 7 seed playing the No. 10 seed and the No. 8 seed matching up with the No. 9 seed in the first-round games. The quarterfinals feature the No. 1 seed against the winner of game one, the No. 4 seed versus the No. 5 seed, the No. 3 seed playing the No. 6 seed and the No. 2 seed facing off with the winner of game two.

https://themw.com/news/2026/7/23/mountain-west-announces-2027-credit-union-1-mens-womens-basketball-championships-brackets.aspx

I always liked the MWC format over the Anaheim-era Big West format (all neutral* site, including byes on both Men's and Women's compared to no byes for Men's). Glad they're keeping it very similar so that Aggie fans can get minimum two games in Vegas.

*not neutral for UNLV but at least for everyone else

I believe Grand Canyon brings a strong contingent.

I missed this part. Women's tournament is from March 7 to 10, and Men's tournament is from March 10 to 13.

so, unless women get to finals (or semi), there’s no overlap. That’s unfortunate- I know some of our fans in the past did double duty in Henderson.

Yeah that's a bit disappointing. We really enjoyed the full basketball days with multiple Aggie games. Oh well...

I'm well aware we're in the Mountain West, but I guarantee I'm going to go to the Big West website out of habit at least 4 times during the season when I want to look at where we rank in conference.

i figure it will take 1/2 the season to not select 'Big West' when i check the scores on the ESPN website!

that’s gonna be my biggest thing lol

Was in town today and saw they covered the Edward’s family athletic center in Mountain West Logos on the windows

To be competitive at the top of Div I basketball requires a player payroll of $10 million according to The Athletic this morning.

Remind me how this serves education. What’s the number to be a competitive mid-major team? $2 million? And there’s no accountability for all this money.