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Pre-season

Recruiting classes

Preseason watchlists

Below is a table of notable preseason watch lists.

Preseason All-American teams

Preseason polls

Mountain West Media days

The Mountain West will conduct its 2022 Mountain West media days on October 20, 2022. The teams and representatives in respective order were as follows: * Mountain West Commissioner – Craig Thompson * Air Force – Joe Scott (HC) * Boise State –

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(HC) * Colorado State –

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(HC) * Fresno State –

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(HC) * Nevada –

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(HC) * New Mexico –

Richard Pitino Richard William Pitino (born September 16, 1982) is an American college basketball coach who is the head men's basketball coach at Xavier University. He was previously head coach at Minnesota from 2013 to 2021, and New Mexico from 2021 to 2025. ...

(HC) * San Diego State –

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(HC) * San Jose State –

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(HC) * UNLV – Kevin Kruger (HC) * Utah State –

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(HC) * Wyoming –

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Mountain West Preseason All-Conference

;First Team

Midseason watchlists

Below is a table of notable midseason watch lists.

Final watchlists

Below is a table of notable year end watch lists.

Regular season

The Schedule will be released in late October. All regular season conference games and conference tournament games would be broadcast nationally by ESPN Inc. family of networks including ABC, ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNU, FOX, FS1, CBS Sports, AltitudeTV, AT&T Sports Network, Cowboy Sports Network, Evoca, FloSports, NBC Bay Area, Nevada Sports Network, Mountain West Network, Pac-12 Network, SEC Network, WCC Network, YouTube Live and YurView

Early season tournaments

Records against other conferences

Records against non-conference foes for the 2022–23 season. Records shown for regular season only. Regular season Postseason

Record against ranked non-conference opponents

This is a list of games against ranked opponents only (rankings from the AP Poll): ''Team rankings are reflective of AP poll when the game was played, not current or final ranking''

Conference schedule

This table summarizes the head-to-head results between teams in conference play.

Points scored

''Through March 5, 2023''

Rankings

NVHead coaches

Coaching changes

Coaches

''Note:'' Stats shown are before the beginning of the season. Mountain West records are from time at current school. ''Notes:'' * Mountain West records, conference titles, etc. are from time at current school and are through the end the 2021–22 season. * NCAA tournament appearances are from time at current school only. * NCAA Final Fours and Championship include time at other schools.

Post season

Mountain West tournament

The conference tournament will be played in March 8−11, 2023 at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, NV. The top five teams will have a bye on the first day. Teams will be seeded by conference record, with ties broken by record between the tied teams followed by record against the regular-season champion, if necessary.

NCAA tournament

Four teams were selected to participate:

National Invitation Tournament

One team was selected to participate:

Awards and honors

Players of the Week

Throughout the regular season, the Mountain West offices honored two players based on performance by naming them player of the week and freshman of the week.

Totals per school

All-Americans

All-District

The

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(USBWA) named the following from the Mountain West to their All-District Teams: ;District VIII All-District Team ;District IX Player of the Year All-District Team

Mountain West season awards

The Mountain West presents two separate sets of major awards—one voted on by conference coaches and the other by media.

All-MWC

;First Team * ‡ Mountain West Player of the Year * ††† three-time All-Mountain West First Team honoree * †† two-time All-Mountain West First Team honoree * † two-time All-Mountain West honoree ;Second Team ;Third Team ;Honorable Mention: ;Isaiah Hill, Sr., G, Fresno State
Max Shulga, Jr., G, Utah State

All-Freshman Team

† Mountain West Player of the Year ‡ Mountain West Freshman of the Year ;Honorable Mention

All-Defensive Team

*† Mountain West Player of the Year *‡ Mountain West Defensive Player of the Year *†† two-time Mountain West All-Defensive Team honoree ;Honorable Mention