I don't think it makes the Big 12 look bad, I think that it shows it's well rounded. People have been wondering whether or not the Big 12 is legit this year, and if the top ranked teams steam rolled through the tourney, then it may show a lopsided conference. I think, in the long run, it shows that bottom feeders are not far away from being competitors once they get into the swing of things. I will say that to someone who doesn't know much about basketball, it may look like chaos in the big 12.
UConn and Syracuse now go into the 5th OT. Neither team has anything left. The last 3 OTs have been like watching the 15th round of heavyweight championship fights of the past. Dead arms and mostly dead legs.
This is an amazing game. I have to be to up in 4 1/2 hours, and I can't stop watching it! If Jonny Flynn stays in college, he's got to be a top 10 pick next year. He's a Chris Paul-lite. He actually went to the same high school as Paul Harris (Niagara Falls, NY...before Harris left for Prep School), and their whole team got D-1 scholarships, I believe. They were in the same division as my school (Flynn graduated HS the year after me), and they were an amazing High School squad. We had a good team, but got blown out by them every time.
Big 12 is an average conference. We'll let the Big Dance prove all this, but there's not a single great team in the conference. OU and KU are overrated.
Agreed...I don't think anyone's questioning the Big East now because UConn and Pitt went out already.
Well that's the because that monster of a conference is insanely deep. It's not just an East coast bias. There's no great team in the Big 12.
there's not a great team in college basketball this year. no one could hold on to #1 for more than a week or so. OU is a very good team...a very real final 4 threat (as much as i hate to say that) KU is a good team that might surprise in the tourney.
Agreed. I feel that conference play and tournament play has made it so that the conferences big teams are ready for the tourney. The Big 12 has been ragged on all year, and, I agree with Artesticles, the tournament will show if they have been properly rated or underrated. We will just have to wait. In the mean time, lets remember that Bill Self's Jayhawks are defending (thank you for winning my bracket for me Bill) and have experience in returning role players as well as a hell of a coach.
OU is 98% Blake Griffin, 1% Willie Warren, 1% everything else. The math is easy. Just stop (or slow him down) Blake Griffin, and they're going to stagnate because asides from Willie their guards are decent at best. They can shoot and catch fire every now and then but they are not very athletic, cannot beat people off the dribble, or stop athletic opposing guards off the dribble vice versa. As a OSU fan I can attest to that. Thats how James Anderson scored 37 on them the last game in Norman. Ironic how they are like the polar opposite of us though.......we have great guards but have no size at all in the post.
Check out the front page of ESPN.com: Duquesne on the front page! If they beat Temple tonight to win the A-10 they go dancin' for the first time since 1977. GOOD LORD, PLEASE DON'T MESS WITH ME LIKE THIS!!!
6 Big 12 teams locked in the tourney makes the basketball gods want to cry. Good thing Baylor didn't make it 7; the sad part is that they actually would have been capable of upsetting someone in the tournament, unlike, oh, EVERY other big 12 team. Missouri was under the radar until about February, and now they too will find it tough to play to their seeding. This is all from an ACC partial though, so take it with what you will. The ACC itself hasn't done so hot in playing to its seeding either in the past 2-3 years, but I think this year that will change. Except for Clemson. Clemson still has no clue how to win on the road.
Aggies have overachieved in the tourney the last 3 years. 2nd Rd, Sweet 16, and 2nd Rd and all losses have been by 2pts or less (last shot, missed layup, blown call). And this is after upsetting higher seeded teams 2 of those 3 years and being considered a bubble team at least 3 years ago (I don't remember if they were last year). And Kansas won the whole damn thing last year. So I don't get what you're saying about the Big 12. Hasn't Duke underperformed the last few years in the tourney?
Sounds like someone has a case of ESPN induced ACC elitism. The Big XII will be just fine in the big dance.
