Big 12 Basketball Beat '23-24

[Lobot]

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

[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.

[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

[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

[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)

[Pharmfam]

“Mouth Bob”. That’s good!

[Lobot]

“Mouth Bob”. That’s good!

I can't remember where I first saw that. There was a whole list of them. Rock Water (Stony Brook) was another one.

[GoBearcats31]

Numerous Big 12 teams playing high major competition this weekend

Saturday
#19 Texas hosts LSU
#2 Kansas travels to Indiana
#6 Baylor travels to Michigan State
#4 Houston hosts Texas A&M
Texas Tech hosts Vanderbilt
TCU hosts Arizona State

Sunday
Kansas State hosts Nebraska

[GoBearcats31]

Houston guard Terrance Arceneaux has a torn Achilles and will miss rest of season, per Kelvin Sampson

[Lobot]

Big boy basketball for us to gauge oversleves against tonight. ESPN doubleheader with Baylor vs Duke and UNC vs. Oklahoma starting at 7:00. The frst game is at MSG and the second at Charlotte's NBA arena

[Lobot]

Houston's Terrance Arceneaux is done for the season with an achilles injury.

[GoBearcats31]

West Virginia is 4-7, which includes home losses to Monmouth and Radford last night - despite getting some two-time transfers eligible recently

UC plays there 1/31 and then hosts WVU on Senior Day in March

[GoBearcats31]

Big 12 play kicks off on Saturday, including a tripleheader on ESPN2 (all times listed ET):

2:00 p.m. TCU at #2 Kansas (CBS)
2:00 p.m. WVU at #3 Houston (ESPN+)
3:00 p.m. #18 Baylor at Okla. State (ESPN+)
6:00 p.m. Iowa State at #11 Oklahoma (ESPN+)
6:00 p.m. UCF at Kansas State (ESPN2)
8:00 p.m. Texas Tech at #20 Texas (ESPN2)
10:00 p.m. Cincinnati at #12 BYU (ESPN2)

It looks like UC will have a game every Saturday from here on out, which is a welcome change after the regular Sunday games in AAC play (one Monday, the rest on Tuesdays/Wednesdays)

Also, 5 of UC's first 6 league games area against ranked teams (they do not play Houston until February, but play the other five ranked teams within the next three weeks).

[GoBearcats31]

Baylor opened a new arena last night -- UC heads there in 10 days https://apnews.com/article/baylor-ba...c8ca7a28712cc8

[bearcatbret]

Some local news:
Midseason check-in: Bearcats preparing for conference play in first Big 12 season (wlwt.com)