Big 12 Conference Notebook
by Neal Heston

An important week for four schools
Two squads have an opportunity to keep the ball bouncing uphill on Wednesday when Missouri visits Kansas State. Aside from the top three in the Big 12, the Tigers and Wildcats are the two hottest teams in the league.
Saturday presents another critical day for [...]

Big 12 Conference Notebook
by Neal Heston

Race shaping as expected
The Big 12 conference slate is only one-fourth finished, but the teams expected to contend aren’t disappointing thus far. Fifth-ranked Kansas leads the league as predicted with a 3-0 mark. Texas A&M and Texas sit tied with the Jayhawks as well. Texas Tech, Oklahoma State and [...]

Big 12 Conference Notebook
by Neal Heston

Northern Iowa well prepared for the storm
The situation for this past Wednesday’s Iowa State-Northern Iowa matchup in Cedar Falls, Iowa, was a lot different than the one two years ago. Former Northern Iowa head coach Greg McDermott went from defending a Mid-Major’s right to play schools such as Iowa [...]

Big 12 Conference 2006-07 Preview
by Neal Heston

Welcome back to the Big 12 Conference, home of new hope for several teams. Despite several noteworthy changes throughout the Big 12, the conference favorite has a decidedly familiar flavor.
Half of the Big 12 went through a makeover during the off-season, as six teams welcome new coaches. Kansas [...]

Big 12 Conference Notebook
by Zach Ewing

Welcome back to conference play, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. We’ve got a circus show on tap for you this year, if the first week is any indication.

What’s next, creepy music?

It wasn’t an alternate universe that descended on Big 12 country early this month; it was just more [...]

Big 12 Conference Notebook
by Zach Ewing

To modify an old axiom, getting the unexpected, at least when it’s the bad kind of unexpected, can leave a bad taste in your mouth. And if that’s true, the Big 12 Conference has a bit of halitosis right now.

At the top of the conference, Texas and Oklahoma have [...]

Big 12 Conference 2005-06 Preview
by Zach Ewing

Welcome to mid-America, where the towns are mostly small and the athletic budgets are huge. The Big 12 Conference is loaded again and has what it takes to be considered one of the best conferences – maybe the best – in the country.

After Kansas, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State [...]

Big 12 Conference Notebook
by Zach Ewing

Sorry for the two-week absence, but that just means we have lots to cover: Iowa State’s meteoric rise, Kansas’ week of close losses and, of course, the bubble watch.

Preparing, hoping and downright praying

The Big 12 can be assured of at least five NCAA Tournament bids this season, with one [...]

Big 12 Conference Notebook
by Zach Ewing

Can Texas go on without Tucker?

The Texas Longhorns were blasted with some bad news this past week when they learned that star forward P.J. Tucker is academically ineligible based on the fall semester and will not play again this season. Tucker led the team with 13.7 points and 8.0 [...]

Big 12 Conference Notebook
by Zach Ewing

A new Big 12 power

The Big 12’s South division has been long dominant in football, especially this past season. Now those six teams in Oklahoma and Texas are trying to make it the same way this basketball season. Obviously, No. 2 Kansas’ presence in the North will prevent that [...]

Big 12 Conference Notebook
by Zach Ewing

Three great games

You know it’s time for conference play when one conference has three hotly-contested, down-to-the-wire games in the span of two days like the Big 12 did last weekend. Let’s start with a non-conference tilt between Kansas, one of the country’s four remaining unbeaten teams, and fellow top-ten [...]

Big 12 Conference Notebook
by Zach Ewing

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and warm holiday wishes. A couple of injuries to key players and a big upset bid made an otherwise slow week important in the Big 12 Conference. Read on…

Simien sidelined

The Kansas Jayhawks’ best player and a preseason All-American, senior forward Wayne Simien, hurt his [...]

Big 12 Conference Notebook
by Zach Ewing

It was finals week in universities across the country, meaning a dull week for students and college basketball fans. Despite the lack of games throughout the week, Saturday and Sunday gave us some great stories.

Big 12 comes up a little short

The Atlantic Coast Conference is by and large considered [...]

Big 12 Conference Preview
by Zach Ewing

With the college semester halfway over, the wait is also over. College basketball season, brought on by Midnight Madness celebrations across the country, is underway. And perhaps nowhere in the country is it more anticipated than in the Midwest where the talent, unlike the size of the campus towns, [...]

Big 12 Conference Offseason News Recap
by Zach Ewing

The air is starting to get cooler, the leaves are turning yellow and college basketball season is just around the corner. That doesn’t mean, however, that nothing happened in the Big 12 Conference since Oklahoma State was eliminated in last spring’s Final Four. Let’s get down to [...]

Big 12 Conference 2003-04 Season Recap
by Zach Ewing

Go back and take a look at the Big 12 Conference preseason polls. Go ahead. It doesn’t matter if it’s a Hoopville prediction, a coaches’ poll or any other media poll. Invariably, you saw Missouri’s name toward the top and Oklahoma State somewhere in the middle of [...]

Big 12 Finals Recap

Recap by Zach Ewing

No. 1 Oklahoma State 65, No. 2 Texas 49
It’s often said that defense wins championships, and it’s pretty obvious that that was the case in this game. The Cowboys started out hot and took a 12-point lead into the locker room, but then when Texas [...]

Big 12 Semifinals Recap

Recap by Zach Ewing

No. 1 Oklahoma State 82, No. 5 Texas Tech 77
The coaching match-up of Eddie Sutton and Bob Knight didn’t disappoint. Knight’s Red Raiders came out with a slashing, attacking, screening offense, scored the game’s first seven points, and held on for an 18-11 lead about seven [...]

Big 12 Finals Preview

Preview by Zach Ewing

No. 2 Texas vs. No. 1 Oklahoma State
Upsets and Cinderellas are nice, but it doesn’t really get better than No. 1 vs. No. 2 in the championship game. Oklahoma State took both regular season meetings by a combined 14 points, but that brings to mind the old [...]

Big 12 First Round Recap

Recap by Zach Ewing

No. 8 Iowa State 78, No. 9 Kansas State 64
This game was never really close. The Cyclones took control from the get-go and advanced easily due to three key points. The first was a suffocating zone defense, which forced K-State into shooting too many threes. The [...]

Big 12 Quarterfinals Preview

Preview by Zach Ewing

No. 8 Iowa State vs. No. 1 Oklahoma State
Iowa State finally managed to win a game outside of the state of Iowa this year, but the Cyclones’ next opponent is against the only team to beat in the state. Oklahoma State routed ISU by 21 in Ames [...]

Big 12 Quarterfinals Recap

Recap by Zach Ewing

For all the upsets going on elsewhere in the country, this is one tournament without a Cinderella. The top three seeds all advanced to the Big 12 semifinals, and the fourth team is NCAA lock Texas Tech. That’s not good news for the Big 12’s bubble teams: [...]

Big 12 Semifinals Preview

Preview by Zach Ewing

No. 5 Texas Tech vs. No. 1 Oklahoma State
Bob Knight has his team playing as well as it has since early January, so this is a great match-up with Oklahoma State. In fact, when the Cowboys came to Lubbock when the Red Raiders were hot, TTU blitzed [...]