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Conference Shuffle: UC Davis Joins Mountain West For Basketball, Baseball, Other Sports, But Not Football

Thomas & Mack Center hosting the Mountain West Conference tourney/ Photos for this story by J. Tyge O'Donnell of LVSportsBiz.com.

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By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer

LAS VEGAS, Nevada — UNLV will compete against a new team in the Mountain West Conference starting in 2026.

UC Davis is joining the Mountain West in two years.

UC Davis will join a sports conference that will include UNLV, Air Force Academy, Grand Canyon University, Hawai’i, Nevada, New Mexico, San Jose State, UTEP and Wyoming.

UNLV basketball coach Kevin Kruger

UC Davis will play sports like basketball and baseball in the Mountain West.

But UC Davis will not play football in the MWC. (UC Davis’ football team will continue to play in the Big Sky Conference).

The Mountain West Conference will undergo changes as schools such as Boise State, San Diego State, Colorado, Fresno State and Utah State will be joining the Pac-12 in 2026.

 

Alan Snel: Alan Snel brings decades of sports-business reporting experience to LVSportsBiz.com. Snel covered the business side of sports for the South Florida (Fort Lauderdale) Sun-Sentinel, the Tampa Tribune and Las Vegas Review-Journal. As a city hall beat reporter, Snel also covered stadium deals in Denver and Seattle. In 2000, Snel launched a sport-business website for FoxSports.com called FoxSportsBiz.com. After reporting sports-business for the RJ, Snel wrote hard-hitting stories on the Raiders stadium for the Desert Companion magazine in Las Vegas and The Nevada Independent. Snel is also one of the top bicycle advocates in the country.
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