With its most difficult regular season games behind it, Utah State begins a four-game finale to conference play where it’ll face the bottom three teams in the conference. Tonight, that means Fresno State, a team on a three-game losing streak. Since the Aggies hold a firm grip on first place in the standings, they’re in great position to end up with at least a share of the regular season Mountain West title. But the work still needs to be done and done well. One only need look three days into the past to find an example of a catastrophic loss, as New Mexico allowed itself to be defeated at home by last-place Air Force. Such a loss would upend USU’s hopes of a full share of the conference title and potentially put getting a share of the title in jeopardy. The Bulldogs’ most recent loss in their three-game skid was a 32-point home shellacking at the hands of San Diego State. FSU scored a season-low 41 points. But that’s not something USU head coach Danny Sprinkle wants to focus on and assume Tuesday’s contest will be an easy one. “We’re going to get their best shot,” Sprinkle said. “They didn’t

UNLV guard Luis Rodriguez (15) and guard Rob Whaley Jr. (5) celebrate after scoring against Colorado State during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Lucas Peltier) There’s two weeks left in the Mountain West regular season so things are ramping up and the title race is getting ironed out. Movement can still happen should upsets crop up (we just saw that with New Mexico last weekend), so there are few assumptions that can be made. So, with things beginning to come to an end, let’s get started again with another installment of Mountain West Watch. Standings, AP Poll & Conference Tournament Seeds Here’s the standings as they sit today, along with AP Poll ranks, if applicable (parenthesis for teams not in the top 25 itself, but receiving votes in the poll, the number being where they’d rank if you extended beyond 25th). I’ve left in ties in previous standings but this is how the seedings would sit if the tournament started today. I’ve also taken the liberty of adding Barttorvik’s conference title odds, based off their advanced metrics, to these standings to give a picture of how things may