Kansas coach Bill Self and the Jayhawks are atop the Big 12 conference as usual, but the top of the league has some teams you might not expect.
Still hoping to be a factor for the second half of the season are Baylor and TCU — each 3-3, each facing key games and each prime examples of how hard-as-diamonds the conference is this season.
The two teams have had difficulty gaining traction in the conference, but they’re still ranked in the AP Top 25. TCU is projected as a No. 4 seed in the NCAA Tournament by ESPN bracketologist Joe Lunardi, with Baylor a five seed.“There’s no bad team,” TCU coach Jamie Dixon said afterthis week. “It’s obviously the best [conference]. I’ve been saying how good it is for years, since I got in here, but it seems to get better every year.
“Do we have a team as good as some of the teams that won the national championship? I’m not sure yet,” he said. “Top to bottom, it’s clearly even better than it’s been.” TCU has learned the hard way that nothing comes easy. The Horned Frogs lost an 18-point lead at Texas, the sort of hard lesson that has stayed with them.
“We’ve got to know every possession matters,” TCU guard Emanuel Miller told reporters after the game. “In this league, you mess up one possession, it can cost you the game.”
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