The Big 12 has been on a great run to be the top conference in recent years, including last year. This year will be a challenge due to a big loss of experience throughout the conference.
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2015-16 Big 12 Post-Mortem
The past three years have been almost like Groundhog Day for the Big 12, which had its best year yet in a terrific recent run.
Departures like Beard’s still far more exception than the norm
Chris Beard may have left for two jobs in less than a month, but cases of college basketball coaches leaving for better jobs still happen far less than the urban legend says they do.
Talking Hoops with Ted Sarandis – April 20, 2016
We talk with Ted about the Portsmouth Invitational, which had a pretty good roster of seniors this time around, and then look at some developments in the world of coaching, including one very curious move that leaves a school in a tough spot for its new head coach.
The Morning Dish – Thursday, March 10, 2016
In an ultracompetitive league where four teams finished tied for fourth place, third through eighth were separated by three games and no less than six teams had winning streaks of at least five games in conference play, it’s the team that went 0-9 on the road in conference play and finished ninth overall that is the tournament champion.
The Morning Dish – Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Tulsa narrowly missed the NCAA Tournament last year, and the Golden Hurricane looked destined for a similar fate after their first meeting with Temple this year. After a second matchup with the Owls, though, it’s safe to say a lot has changed.
The Morning Dish – Thursday, February 11, 2016
When it came to trying to make the biggest splash, Wednesday night was a virtual game of ‘Can You Top This?’ across the college basketball landscape. Multiple teams came up with big wins. Really big wins. As in, the type of wins that some may point to in mid-March as […]
The Morning Dish – Thursday, February 4, 2016
Among all the oddities of this college basketball season, when all is said and done there will be few harder to explain than this: a game between Illinois and Rutgers may go down as one of the best and most entertaining games of the entire year.
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, January 19, 2016
On Monday, Oklahoma ascended to the No. 1 spot in the Associated Press Top 25 poll for the first time in 26 years. The Sooners’ stay there will almost certainly be a short one.
The Morning Dish – Thursday, January 7, 2016
One of what may turn out to be the games of the year in the Missouri Valley took place last night. And now, with one its back pocket, Wichita State gets ready for what may be another one.
