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 […]
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Big 12 First Round Recap
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 […]
Big 12 Quarterfinals Preview
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 […]
Big 12 Quarterfinals Recap
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 […]
Big 12 Semifinals Preview
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 […]
Big 12 Notebook
Big 12 Conference Notebook by Zach Ewing It’s hard to believe how soon March, and more importantly Championship Week, rolls around. All over the country, people like me are glued to ESPN and CBS, trying to get work done while really just trying to figure out whether it will be […]
Mountain West Notebook
Mountain West Conference Notebook by Zach Ewing The best basketball in the Wild West this year isn’t being played on the Pacific coast, but high up in the mountains. The MWC has a higher RPI than the Pac-10 and will likely send as many or more teams to the NCAA […]
Big 12 Notebook
Big 12 Conference Notebook by Zach Ewing My oh my, how things have changed in the Big 12 from just a short two weeks ago. It had appeared, a fortnight ago, that Kansas was one of the league’s elite, Texas Tech and Oklahoma were safely in the NCAA Tournament and […]
Big 12 Notebook
Big 12 Conference Notebook by Zach Ewing Two weeks to go, and that means four games for each team in the Big 12 Conference. This is the point in the season where every single game is important, especially for the big group knotted between 7-5 and 5-7 in the Big […]
Big 12 Notebook
Big 12 Conference Notebook by Zach Ewing I’m just confused. Last week, I said Kansas was on the way up and Missouri and Iowa State were on the way down. The Jayhawks, Tigers and Cyclones proceeded to prove me dead wrong. One thing I do know for sure: the last […]
