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Big 12 Standings
Baylor 8-2
TCU 8-2
West Virginia 8-3
Texas Tech 8-3
Oklahoma State 7-3

Baylor: vs TCU (2/12), at Tech (2/18), at TCU (3/1)
TCU: at Baylor (2/12), vs WVU (2/15), vs Baylor (3/1)
West Virginia: at TCU (2/15), vs OSU (2/21)
Texas Tech: at OSU (2/14), vs Baylor (2/18)
Oklahoma State: vs Tech (2/14), at WVU (2/21)
 
The cream always rises. Texas, UConn, LSU and UCLA show their stuff in good fashion. Meanwhile the Big 12 is chaos.

The polls should be interesting tomorrow. Trouble is who do you move up in place of the teams that had losses, and there are lots of losses!

Guess WVU and TT move up a few spots for winning at home against somewhat overrated opponents. I thought losses would have tossed both out. TCU and Baylor should fall, Baylor is like a #21 or so and TCU seems like a lower level Top 16.

It's about time Maryland dropped bigly, they have lost 5 of their last 6. The voters and the computer love them but they are in a five-way tie for 10th place in the Big Ten at 5-6 and there is no way they should anywhere near ranked #16. Don't see a big bounce back for the, they still have Michigan State, Michigan, Ohio State and Nebraska on the road.

Michigan should move up a spot or two. I thought hey (and MSU to) looked pretty damn good on Sunday. Iowa probably drops a few.
 
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Current Big 12 standings. It's any of the top 4's to win or lose. Maybe OSU to? Would be funny if we get a 3-way tie but it's not really that improbable.

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Wow Tech won and no tech starter had double figures.
Here’s the stunner…TCU only had FIVE total free throws. The weekend must have been a foul free zone for the Big 12…and then you look at the Baylor game…they shot 32 and still lost because they were 14/47 from the field. WVU took TWENTY THREE more shots than Baylor.
 
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Here’s the stunner…TCU only had FIVE total free throws. The weekend must have been a foul free zone for the Big 12…and then you look at the Baylor game…they shot 32 and still lost because they were 14/47 from the field. WVU took TWENTY THREE more shots than Baylor.
If anything the referees were even worse in the WV - BU game than they were a few days ago in the TCU - KU game. They sure spent a lot of time over at the monitors trying to figure out what they screwed up. The last 6 seconds of the TCU - KU game in Ft Worth was total absurdity.
 
So how is it that teams like Washington and North Carolina are ranked and they don’t have any stronger wins than ISU and some really bad losses just like ISU? I’m not clamoring for ISU to be ranked, but there isn’t much difference between these teams.
 
So how is it that teams like Washington and North Carolina are ranked and they don’t have any stronger wins than ISU and some really bad losses just like ISU? I’m not clamoring for ISU to be ranked, but there isn’t much difference between these teams.

As much to do with who would you elevate over them versus dropping them out. The 20-35 group isn't loaded with teams with good resumes.
 
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So how is it that teams like Washington and North Carolina are ranked and they don’t have any stronger wins than ISU and some really bad losses just like ISU? I’m not clamoring for ISU to be ranked, but there isn’t much difference between these teams.

It's the difference between all 5 losses happening consecutively vs. scattering your 5 losses out over the entirety of the season to date.
 
Mac D players for 2026. Texas and Kentucky with three each. Only one player for the Big 12.


I wonder how often Mc AA’s actually pan out as superstars versus just being another “good” player? For example, the percentage that become college all Americans versus “just” all conference players.
 
I wonder how often Mc AA’s actually pan out as superstars versus just being another “good” player? For example, the percentage that become college all Americans versus “just” all conference players.

Made me take a quick look (not a deep dive) at last years 15 (1st, 2nd, 3rd team) AP All-Americans and most were in the McDonald's game. Only Crooks, Morrow, Miles and Amoore were not. And Amoore is not from the USA so won't have been eligible anyway so really only the other three.

Just by numbers not all D-Macs can be an AP All-American (there are 24 each year so 96 +/- on rosters in any given year) but most top All-Americans were D-Macs. With almost 100 on rosters they aren't all going to end up as big stars.

Last years D-Mac included two Big 12 freshman. Jaliya Davis was injured first half of the season and averaging almost 21 ppg in 13 games. She's been freshman of the week 4 weeks running and will get Freshman of the Year. A big recruit win for Kansas. Jordan Speiser for KSU seems less of instant success, only started a few games but is averaging 9 ppg as a freshman which most teams will take.

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Made me take a quick look (not a deep dive) at last years 15 (1st, 2nd, 3rd team) AP All-Americans and most were in the McDonald's game. Only Crooks, Morrow, Miles and Amoore were not. And Amoore is not from the USA so won't have been eligible anyway so really only the other three.

Just by numbers not all D-Macs can be an AP All-American (there are 24 each year so 96 +/- on rosters in any given year) but most top All-Americans were D-Macs. With almost 100 on rosters they aren't all going to end up as big stars.

Last years D-Mac included two Big 12 freshman. Jaliya Davis was injured first half of the season and averaging almost 21 ppg in 13 games. She's been freshman of the week 4 weeks running and will get Freshman of the Year. A big recruit win for Kansas. Jordan Speiser for KSU seems less of instant success, only started a few games but is averaging 9 ppg as a freshman which most teams will take.

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Kansas beat BYU by 21 in Lawrence. Game was tied at halftime.

Utah won at UCF by 10.

Baylor won at Cincy, but only by 6.

TCU doubled up Houston.

Arizona (now 2-9) closed out K-State by 10.
 
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