Basketball Report for December 6

Big Sky Conference:

Big win for Montana and the Big Sky Conference; taking care of UCLA at Pauley Pavilion.  What does it mean in the end?  Probably not that much.  This is UCLA's 4th loss of the early season, and the Bruins do not figure to be in anyone's brackets right now.  The Big Sky is still going to be a one-bid league.  But congratulations all around.

Game of the Week: Weber State 65 Seattle 61
Player of the Week: Montana G Will Cherry

Power Rankings
1. Weber State
2. Northern Arizona
3. Montana
4. Portland State
5. Montana State
6. Northern Colorado
7. Idaho State
8. Eastern Washington
9. Sacramento State

WAC

Saturday was not a good day for the WAC, all of the power schools in the conference lost big time to nationally ranked teams.  Look for positives where you can find them.  Here are a couple.

Game of the week: Louisiana Tech 69 SMU 64
Player of the week: New Mexico State G Troy Gillenwater

Power Rankings:
1. Utah State
2. Louisiana Tech
3. Boise State
4. San Jose State
5. Idaho
6. Hawaii
7. Fresno State
8. New Mexico State
9. Nevada

Mountain West Conference

The MWC is looking like an easy 3-bid and possible a 4-bid league right now.  The conference has 3 undefeated teams and there 8 teams with winning records in the early season.  I thought seriously about putting UNLV ahead of BYU in the rankings this week, but I changed my mind.  The Rebels have not played anyone yet, but BYU did win at Creighton.  UNLV will likely not be tested before conference play.  

Player of the Week: San Diego State F Kawhi Leonard
Game of the Week: Air Force 57 Evansville 56

Power Rankings:
1. San Diego State
2. BYU
3.UNLV
4. New Mexico
5. Utah
6. Colorado State
7. Air Force
8. TCU
9. Wyoming