Haliburton All-Big 12 Preseason

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Sigmapolis

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If I were going to predict a post player to make a Big 12 team, it would be Conditt. Media will like his flash plays and block numbers assuming he gets enough minutes. Jacobson and Young are good at what they do but their fundamental game won't show in counting numbers to get the required attention.

Better fundamentals.

But no dunking.

Is more fun to watch that way.
 

Dingus

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Haliburton Named To Preseason All-Big 12 Team

AMES, Iowa – Iowa State sophomore Tyrese Haliburton has been named to the five-man Preseason All-Big 12 team, which was voted on by the league’s head coaches and announced Wednesday.

Haliburton, an Oshkosh, Wisconsin native, ranked among the nation’s top freshmen in a number of categories last season. His all-around game has drawn rave reviews as he averaged 6.8 points, 3.6 assists, 3.4 rebounds and 1.5 steals last season. He became one of just four freshmen in college basketball since 1992-93 to record 125 assists, 50 steals and 30 blocks.

He also ranked second nationally with a 4.46 assist-to-turnover ratio, which included a school-record 17-assist game (Southern) in which he had just one turnover.

Preseason All-Big 12
Tristan Clark, Baylor
Tyrese Haliburton, Iowa State
Udoka Azubuike, Kansas
Devon Dotson, Kansas
Desmond Bane, TCU

Honorable Mention: Xavier Sneed (Kansas State), Kristian Doolittle (Oklahoma), Yor Anei (Oklahoma State), Matt Coleman (Texas), Chris Clarke (Texas Tech), Davide Moretti (Texas Tech), Jahmi’us Ramsey (Texas Tech), Derek Culver (West Virginia).

Preseason Player of the Year: Udoka Azubuike, Kansas
Preseason Newcomer of the Year: Chris Clarke, Texas Tech
Preseason Freshman of the Year: Oscar Tshiebwe, West Virginia
Seeing the thread title, I could not do a very good job of predicting this this year. At a glance, Big 12 seems to be lacking much for star power this year.
 

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I thought it was interesting listening to Prohm talk about Tyrese and the NBA at the Big 12 media day. Basically he said that he had handled things a bit differently this year and he met with Tyrese and his family before the season to discuss all of that and that should be the last time they discuss it during the year. Probably good to nip that in the bud early in the year.