And yet they still had us as #5 in the Big 12. Is the league really that down? 5th place is usually in the tournament easily.
The Big 12 is definitely down this year -- but only slightly. Finding a way to compare that across seasons can be tricky, but the quickest one that I know says...
The SRS rating is definitely down from the mountaintop of 2016-2017.
The SOS rating might look low, but I think that is misleading right now because everybody is still working through the cupcake section of the schedule.
That will come up over the next few months.
It appears the conference is down from its zenith but still pretty good, though, but that might just be a few great teams at the top (e.g., Kansas, WVU, maybe TTU) pulling it up and everybody else being kind of mediocre. Nonetheless, it is still about as good as it was last year, which managed to get six teams into the NCAA tournament.
2007 was the last year the conference only had four in the NCAA tournament.