Big 12 Basketball Beat '23-24

[Lobot]

Texas Tech's third-leading scorer, Devan Cambridge is done for the year (knee)

Kansas State gave the boot to one of its top players from last year https://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...naeqwan-tomlin

Tech had some trouble at home vs. Mouth Bob last night. (Oral Roberts)

[Lobot]

Pretty decent slate of Non Conference games going on for Big XII teams this Saturday 12/16.

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/scoreboard/_/date/20231216/group/8

[GoBearcats31]

Texas Tech's third-leading scorer, Devan Cambridge is done for the year (knee)

Kansas State gave the boot to one of its top players from last year https://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...naeqwan-tomlin

[Josh Rexhausen]

43% of the the remaining undefeated teams in the country are Big 12 members.

And Clemson plays South Carolina and TCU Tonight and Saturday. At least 1 will fall, possibly two.

[Lobot]

43% of the the remaining undefeated teams in the country are Big 12 members.

[GoBearcats31]

Big East-Big 12 games getting underway tonight:

November 30 -- Texas Tech at Butler
November 30 -- Creighton at Oklahoma State
December 1 -- Iowa State at DePaul
December 1 -- Houston at Xavier
December 1 -- Connecticut at Kansas
December 1 -- St John’s at West Virginia
December 2 -- TCU at Georgetown
December 5 -- Texas at Marquette
December 5 -- Providence at Oklahoma
December 5 -- Villanova at Kansas State
December 5 -- Seton Hall at Baylor

Thursday winners: Butler, Creighton
Friday winners: Kansas, Houston, St. John's, Iowa State
Saturday winner: TCU

4-3 Big 12 with four to play tonight. This one is for all the marbles...

[GoBearcats31]

What we've learned about each Big 12 basketball team after the first month of the season

https://247sports.com/college/cincinnati/longformarticle/big-12-college-basketball-kansas-texas-cincinnati-texas-tech-kansas-state-tcu-oklahoma-west-virginia-houston-iowa-state-221824386/

[Lobot]

I'm very interested in what Houston has for Xavier.

Texas and Marquette has the backstory for sure.

[GoBearcats31]

Big East-Big 12 games getting underway tonight:

November 30 -- Texas Tech at Butler
November 30 -- Creighton at Oklahoma State
December 1 -- Iowa State at DePaul
December 1 -- Houston at Xavier
December 1 -- Connecticut at Kansas
December 1 -- St John’s at West Virginia
December 2 -- TCU at Georgetown
December 5 -- Texas at Marquette
December 5 -- Providence at Oklahoma
December 5 -- Villanova at Kansas State
December 5 -- Seton Hall at Baylor

[Bearcats_Rule]

Some recent results involving Big 12 teams:

1 Kansas took 3rd in Maui (beat Chaminade, lost to 4 Marquette, beat 7 Tennessee

Texas Tech won Atlantis consolation (lost to Villanova but defeated Northern Iowa and Michigan)

West Virginia fell to SMU and UVA in Fort Meyers

13 Baylor defeated Oregon State and Florida in NIT Tip-Off

Oklahoma beat Iowa and 23 USC

BYU beat Arizona State by 28, defeated NC St in Vegas

Iowa State defeated VCU, fell to Virginia Tech in ESPN event - play 12 Texas A&M on Sunday

I watched a lot of these games…BYU looked like a cohesive team that is really good at fundamental basketball… looked a lot like NKU did against us last year.

[GoBearcats31]

Ken Pom ratings:

1 - Houston (preseason 3)
5 - Kansas (preseason 2)
10 - BYU (preseason 36)
11 - Baylor (preseason 7)
23 - Oklahoma (preseason 48)
26 - Iowa State (preseason 31)
30 - TCU (preseason 30)
31 - Texas (preseason 16)
36 - Cincinnati (preseason 53)
41 - Kansas State (preseason 25)
47 - Texas Tech (preseason 43)
78 - UCF (preseason 72)
87 - Oklahoma State (preseason 68)
105 - West Virginia (preseason 64)

[swilsonsp4]

Stetson knocks off UCF

The Knights blew a 9-point second-half lead at home. The Hatters hit 14 straight free throws down the stretch.

[GoBearcats31]

Stetson knocks off UCF

[GoBearcats31]

Some recent results involving Big 12 teams:

1 Kansas took 3rd in Maui (beat Chaminade, lost to 4 Marquette, beat 7 Tennessee

Texas Tech won Atlantis consolation (lost to Villanova but defeated Northern Iowa and Michigan)

West Virginia fell to SMU and UVA in Fort Meyers

13 Baylor defeated Oregon State and Florida in NIT Tip-Off

Oklahoma beat Iowa and 23 USC

BYU beat Arizona State by 28, defeated NC St in Vegas

Iowa State defeated VCU, fell to Virginia Tech in ESPN event - play 12 Texas A&M on Sunday

[bearcatbret]

It is impossible to make any conclusions on the conference standings at this point. However, here they are. Men's College Basketball Standings - 2023-24 Big 12 Conference Standings - ESPN