Big 12 basketball looks deep, with four of the ten teams ranked in the Top 25 and three more receiving votes. To set the stage for the race ahead, here’s a look at each team, what they’ve accomplished and who they’re working with.
Kansas basketball has been so ruthlessly efficient over the years that it’s easy for them to become an afterthought. You know they’ll win the Big 12, be a high seed in the NCAA Tournament and a potential Final Four pick in your bracket, but the very efficiency that the Jayhawk program operates makes it easy to take them for granted—to assume that every KU team is basically the same.
Big 12 basketball has shaped up into a three-team race, with all three teams playing legitimate national powers. Baylor, Missouri and Kansas are the only teams with winning conference records after four games, and there’s head-to-head battles involving all three, starting tonight with Baylor’s visit to Lawrence to meet the Jayhawks (9:30 PM ET, ESPN). […]