Steve Fischer

The Mountain West Conference had one of the more exciting championship races this season, with three of the league’s eight teams staying in it to the bitter end. They have one of the more exciting tournaments ahead, as a fourth team has a shot at making it to the NCAA Tournament. Whether this is excitement based on shared mediocrity or that there’s a lot of darkhorses in this field won’t be known until late next Friday night when the NCAA’s first round wraps up. TheSportsNotebook looks back and looks ahead in the Mountain West…