Big 12 B-Ball News 2024-25

[GoBearcats31]

TCU's Frankie Collins (via Arizona State via Michigan) broke his foot and is done for the season. He was leading TCU in points, assists, steals.

[Lobot]

Dug McDaniels has left the team at KSU. ?!?

[swilsonsp4]

Dug McDaniels has left the team at KSU. ?!?

I see that he sat out the last game ("coach's decision"). I can't find anything that says definitively that he's leaving. This is on top of the departure of Achor Achor a couple days ago.

[GoBearcats31]

Iowa State has agreed to a new contract with TJ Otzelberger through 2032

[GoBearcats31]

Big 12 power rankings published on Cincinnati.com from someone at The Oklahoman, presumably a sister news outlet
https://www.cincinnati.com/story/spo...9007/?tbref=hp

UC listed at #5

[Lobot]

Opinions from the state of Kansas : (~$)

https://www.cjonline.com/story/sport...s/77205837007/

[leeraymond]

Watch out for West Virginia. This is a good team with good players. Enough said.

[swilsonsp4]

Watch out for West Virginia. This is a good team with good players. Enough said.

However, with their top player, Tucker DeVries, out for an extended time (and possibly for the season), the Mountaineers are short-handed. The B12 grind is likely to wear them down.

[leeraymond]

However, with their top player, Tucker DeVries, out for an extended time (and possibly for the season), the Mountaineers are short-handed. The B12 grind is likely to wear them down.

West Virginia is a pretty good defensive team. They are holding teams to 63.6 points / g, their opponents are shooting 37.3% from two, and 28% from three. They have wins over Gonzaga, Arizona, and Georgetown. Their last three games, without DeVries, WV has held those three teams to a combined average of 50 points a game.

You are assuming that Tucker DeVries is WV's main weapon. He is WV's MAIN three-point shooter. DeVries makes about 3 threes /g. Sixty-four percent (64%) of his shots are 3-point shots. Overall, DeVries took only about 12.9 % of all the shots. WV has other weapons. Javon Smalls (6'3" point guard) hits for 19 points / g, Amani Hansberry (6'8" 240 forward) scores about 10 points a game, and WV also has a little-known 6'8" guard, Toby Okani, who may be (maybe) an NBA prospect.

In other words, what I am saying to you, I think WV can win without DeVries in the lineup. I believe that WV may be one of the sleeper teams in the BIG XII. I have seen them play. WV appears to have a REAL CHEMISTRY this year. I could be wrong, but of what I have seen of them they have some really good parts and pieces.

Watch out for West Virginia.