First, Boise State announced they would accept an invitation to join the Mountain West Conference as early as the 2011-12 season.
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Hence the frantic leaps in recent months of lower-rung programs like San Diego State from the Mountain West Conference to the Big East.
The Mountain West Conference, judged one of the top two leagues in college basketball all season, fell to 1-3 so far this week.
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Currently, TCU, playing in the non-Bowl Championship Series Mountain West Conference, does not have an automatic bid but has a guaranteed at-large selection based on its No. 3 ranking.
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Outside of basketball, TWC SportsNet will are 12 live Mountain West Conference football games and more than 24 Mountain West basketball games, making Time Warner Cable SportsNet the exclusive regional home for Aztecs, Rebels and Bulldogs.
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As things stand for the current season, TCU and the Mountain West Conference will at least get a taste of a hefty BCS Bowl Game payout, but will likely be excluded from a chance to be National Champions despite their best efforts both on and off the field.
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Mary's (from the underexposed West Coast Conference), plus West Virginia and Washington (football schools).
Cramer, incidentally, would buy deep-in-the-money calls on Salesforce.com ahead of a West Coast conference on cloud computing.
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Ultimately, BYU decided to go independent in football and join the West Coast Conference in all other sports.
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With the caveat that any MAC, Mountain West, Conference USA, or independent ranked in the Top 12 would be given preference over a super-conference affiliated team ranked above them that did not win its conference championship game.
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The selection committee had its work cut out after five teams swapped the top ranking in The Associated Press poll, capped by West Coast Conference champion Gonzaga (30-2) moving to the lead spot for the first time in school history.
Thanks to a second-half surge Saturday night in the semifinals of the West Coast conference tournament, it'll step on the floor Monday night in the championship game of the event as the nation's No. 1 team for a second straight week.
While Gonzaga held the top spot in the AP Top 25 over the final weeks of the season, skeptics thought of the Bulldogs as a soft No. 1 seed that benefited from a relatively easy schedule in the West Coast Conference while other top contenders were getting banged around in the power conferences.
But when Texas and Oklahoma decided to stay put, as the conference added West Virginia and regionally-based TCU, and as new conference leadership realized that greater revenue sharing must be attained, this enabled the media market place to feel more secure about the long-term stability of the conference.
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That means the Mountain West, Sun Belt, Conference USA, the Mid-American and Western Athletic conferences must rank in the top 12 of the BCS poll to get the automatic bid.
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Depending upon the dirty dancing between West Virginia and the Big East Conference, Missouri may have to wait just a little bit before getting down and dirty in the SEC.
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Of course, when that happens may depend on the legal showdown between West Virginia and the Big East Conference centering around how long the Mountaineers must wait before they exit for the Big 12.
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Next Tuesday, companies wanting to get a slice of the police budget in Surrey and West Midlands will attend a bidding conference, with Peter Williams telling me he would be there to ensure that nothing was agreed "unless it delivers benefits to us".
West Virginia and Cincinnati have really carried the conference since and the Mountaineers are the only representatives of the Big East in the current BCS Poll.
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But Waugh was joined at the annual captains' conference by the skippers of the West Indies, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Bangladesh and New Zealand national teams.
The fact that the 2010 conference champion (either Connecticut or West Virginia) will have at least 3 losses and is not a sniff within the Top 15 does not sit well.
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Meanwhile on the election trail, Welsh Labour leader Carwyn Jones will lead his party's campaigning in Cardiff South and Penarth on Monday morning, beginning with a news conference, before moving to Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire, with a rally in Pembroke Dock in the afternoon.
Leading members of the Coalition will be holding a press conference at the National Press Club's West Room at 10:00 a.m.
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West was delivering the keynote address at a smart grid conference hosted by the consulting firm Utilitpoint in New Orleans this morning.
Chelsea have until midnight on Monday to sign the 24-year-old Brazilian, who has told a press conference that he is intent on moving to west London.
The conference is going with "East" and "West" instead and switching to a nine-game scheduling format after presidents and chancellors approved the moves on Sunday.
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The Buckeyes, on a roll after winning the conference tournament Sunday, are seeded second in the West, while Tom Izzo's Spartans are third in the Midwest.
"Germany and Italy are interested in binding Turkey closer to the West and Europe, " Mr Schroeder told a joint news conference with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
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