MWC strength compared to past years.

[Rebel1986]

I keep reading people saying that the MWC is down, but the truth is that this is the best year the MWC has had in a decade or more based on the overall record.

2017 - 2018 54.85% winning
2018 - 2019 51.11%
2019 - 2020 53.98%
2020 - 2021 53.71%
2021 - 2022 57.14%
2022 - 2023 58.27%
2023 - 2024 62.69% add in the final 80 games, and that percentage drops to 59.71%

Based on percentage winning, the MWC is stronger this year than in past years. Of course, you can take into consideration overall strength of schedule, but most likely that will be similar year to year.

In comparison the Pac12 has won 57.14% of their games and will be at 55.52% at the end of the season. Maybe that is why the Pac12 has three teams expected to get in, and one of those is in the last four.

 

[Rebel1986]

As a side note, ESPN currently (2-9-2024) has 5 teams from the MWC in the NCAA tournament, and has unr listed first four out.

Teams currently in include: Utah State (7), Boise State (9), SDSU (5), New Mexico (9), and CSU (6). Of course that will change over the last couple of days. They also have Boise State as the automatic qualifier which is not true anymore.