Recap: BYU 80, SDSU 67

Click on the post title for our Zach Bloxham's recap of Saturday's heavyweight bout of MWC contenders, posted on the Dash Fans Network.

St. Mary's schedules home game with Weber State

St. Mary's and Weber State have agreed to a game on March 11 at 8 p.m. MT to give both teams an opportunity to stay fine-tuned before heading into post-season play.  The West Coast Conference concludes its conference tournament on Monday, March 7th, while the Big Sky plays its championship game on Wed., March 9th.  With full NCAA tournament play starting on March 17th, this would ensure neither team goes longer than 6 days between games before hitting tournament play.  The game is interesting for Weber State, however, as if the Wildcats manage to play their way into the NCAA tournament, they could end up playing in a play-in game as early as March 15th, giving them little time to rest.

**UPDATE**. . .

Western Recap of BracketBuster Weekend

A WAC team makes a big statement, a slew of other WAC and Big Sky teams play a bunch of meaningless games, and the MWC keeps plowing ahead in conference matchups:

TCU completes schedule, gets October showdown vs. BYU at Cowboys Stadium

The TCU Horned Frogs finalized their 2011 schedule, a decent accomplishment considering losing a conference game due to the departures of BYU and Utah, and also getting dropped by Texas Tech.

TCU opens at Baylor, and hosts SMU on Oct. 1, games that were already scheduled for a while.  The Frogs were able to add home games against Louisiana-Monroe from the Sun Belt and FCS opponent Portland State.

The headliner is a Friday night matchup with BYU in Cowboys Stadium on ESPN2 at the end of October.  TCU has owned BYU in their last 3 meetings to the tune of 101-17 (2 in DFW, 1 in Provo).  The matchup has added flavor after TCU coach Gary Patterson's remarks months ago when BYU declared independence, saying the Cougars should "be careful what they wish for."  Since that time, TCU accepted an invitation to the Big East.

Both TCU and BYU are 1-0 at Cowboys Stadium.

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A Mid-Major Fan's Rooting Guide

Conference tournament winners receive every conference's automatic bid, except for the Ivy League, who doesn't have a conference tourney.  Those smart kids.  In other conferences, you can beat every team twice and go undefeated, but still must beat 2 or 3 teams a third time to claim the auto-bid. Because of the ridiculousness of this reality, sometimes, the wrong teams end up in the NCAA tournament.

If you, like us at The Upset, are big fans of upsets and Cinderella stories, there are some run-away leaders around the nation who you should be rooting for to win their conferences, which would make the mid-major pool as strong as possible when March rolls around.

Down the Stretch: BIG SKY

We at The Upset haven't spent much time on the Big Sky, but as basketball comes around the final turn before March Madness, we will have our eyes on the Big Sky Conference.  Here's what's coming up down the stretch:

Down the Stretch: WAC

Here's what's coming in the last three weeks of the WAC:

Down the Stretch: MWC

With three weeks left in the regular season, we take a look at what is coming down the stretch in the Mountain West Conference:

Heath Schroyer fired at Wyoming

Photo - Ben Woloszyn

Wyoming has officially fired men's basketball coach Heath Schroyer.  Schroyer's overall record at Wyoming was 49-68, going 16-41 in MWC conference play.

According to SportsByBrooks.com, an early breaker of the firing, BYU assistant Dave Rice and South Florida assistant Jeremy Cox are Wyoming's early targets as Schroyer's replacement. Wyoming assistant Fred Langley has been named the Cowboys' interim head coach.

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Signing Day Links for MWC & WAC

Below is your one-stop-shop for MWC and WAC signing day lists:

MWC	WAC
Air Force	Boise State
BYU	Fresno State
Colorado State	Hawaii
New Mexico	Idaho
San Diego State	Louisiana Tech
TCU	Nevada
UNLV	New Mexico State
Utah	San Jose State
Wyoming	Utah State

Majestic Realty presents plans for UNLV stadium

Majestic Realty and its partners presented their plan for massive campus renovations for UNLV, plans that include a new indoor events stadium.

The firm has launched UNLVnow.com, which has artist renderings and details all the plans.