Big 12 Basketball Standings Prediction - May 2019

[thebigabd]

What say you guys? Dust is starting to settle on recruiting and transfers.

1.) Kansas
2.) West Virginia
3.) Texas Tech
4.) Baylor
5.) Oklahoma State
6.) Texas
7.) Oklahoma
8.) ISU
9.) Kansas State
10.) TCU

 

[BCSooners]

1) Kansas
2) Baylor
3) Texas Tech
4) Texas
5) Oklahoma
6) West Virginia
7) ISU
8) Oklahoma State
9) Kansas State
10) TCU

 

[WichitaSooner]

1) Kansas
2) Baylor
3) Texas Tech
4) Texas
5) Oklahoma
6) West Virginia
7) ISU
8) Oklahoma State
9) Kansas State
10) TCU

These look similar to what I would have at the top, although I don't trust Texas enough to put them that high. At the bottom, I don't think OSU finishes ahead of KSU, and have no idea what to make of ISU.

 

[CoachTalk]

Im not ready to predict yet...

 

[WichitaSooner]

Im not ready to predict yet...

Yeah, I definitely will change my thoughts once we actually know more about rosters. Still several key decisions to be made by recruits, transfers, and guys who declared for the draft.

 

[thebigabd]

Im not ready to predict yet...

Oh yea... this is about the earliest prediction you can make. Dust hasn't totally settled yet.

1) Kansas
2) Baylor
3) Texas Tech
4) Texas
5) Oklahoma
6) West Virginia
7) ISU
8) Oklahoma State
9) Kansas State
10) TCU

Interesting... I wonder what I see about WVU and OSU that you don't? Those are the biggest differences in our lists.

 

[BCSooners]

Oh yea... this is about the earliest prediction you can make. Dust hasn't totally settled yet.



Interesting... I wonder what I see about WVU and OSU that you don't? Those are the biggest differences in our lists.

I think 4-7 will be a dog fight. I think WVU will be good, still think OSU is a year away.

 

[AdaSooner]

The only prediction I’m ready to make right now is that OU will finish in the top half of the conference. Next year’s team has too much offensive fire power to finish in the bottom half.

I’m also not sold on ISU, KSU, OSU, TCU, and the league’s perennial underachiever, the Texas Longhorns. Maybe I will be later on. Time will tell.

 

[sperry]

It looks like a second straight down year for the conference to me. Tech, ISU and K-state should be down from last year. Osu and wvu much better. I expect OUs overall results to be similar, just more spread out rather than a hot start and dreadful finish. I don’t see anything close to a final four contender, although someone could come out of nowhere like tech last year.

 

[WichitaSooner]

It looks like a second straight down year for the conference to me. Tech, ISU and K-state should be down from last year. Osu and wvu much better. I expect OUs overall results to be similar, just more spread out rather than a hot start and dreadful finish. I don’t see anything close to a final four contender, although someone could come out of nowhere like tech last year.

Yeah, probably another crappy year of being the top rated conference in the country all season and only putting one team in the national title game.

 

[BoulderSooner]

Yeah, probably another crappy year of being the top rated conference in the country all season and only putting one team in the national title game.

this

 

[sperry]

Yeah, probably another crappy year of being the top rated conference in the country all season and only putting one team in the national title game.

So consistently stupid. The conference was objectively down from previous years. That includes teams making the tourney, tourney seeding, games won in the tourney, teams advancing deep in the tourney. We had one 3 seed, two fours, a six and two 9s. Only one team made it to the second weekend, which hasn’t happened since 2013. The conference was way down last year.

 

[WichitaSooner]

So consistently stupid. The conference was objectively down from previous years. That includes teams making the tourney, tourney seeding, games won in the tourney, teams advancing deep in the tourney. We had one 3 seed, two fours, a six and two 9s. Only one team made it to the second weekend, which hasn’t happened since 2013. The conference was way down last year.

The only thing consistently stupid is your insistence on bashing the league and its teams in any scenario. You left out the most important objective stat in your recitation of stats, which is conference ranking. Not every season can be the best season for a conference. Not being quite as good as its best season doesn't mean it was truly down, which is what you implied.

Also, if/when Dotson announces his return, that will give you a few months to prepare a post telling us all why the pollsters are so stupid and wrong to have KU in the Top 10 when the preseason poll comes out. There are already national writers calling them a Final Four contender with Dotson, and if De Sousa wins his appeal, that will only amplify.

 

[sperry]

The only thing consistently stupid is your insistence on bashing the league and its teams in any scenario. You left out the most important objective stat in your recitation of stats, which is conference ranking. Not every season can be the best season for a conference. Not being quite as good as its best season doesn't mean it was truly down, which is what you implied.

Also, if/when Dotson announces his return, that will give you a few months to prepare a post telling us all why the pollsters are so stupid and wrong to have KU in the Top 10 when the preseason poll comes out. There are already national writers calling them a Final Four contender with Dotson, and if De Sousa wins his appeal, that will only amplify.

The league went from great to good last year. And if Dotson comes back I like KU. They’ll certainly be better than last year. But it won’t be one of selfs better teams, and it’s unlikely anyone else in the league is a top 15 type team. That’s a a step down from previous years. Teams like OU, Texas WVU, and ISU need to get back to where they have been traditionally for the league of to not be down.

 

[Eielson]

How many Big XII teams made the Sweet 16?

 

[sperry]

How many Big XII teams made the Sweet 16?

Just tech.

 

[skyvue]

Some conferences are top heavy. They may have two or three teams show well during the tourney, but that doesn't make them the toughest conferences.

 

[thewez]

1.OU
2.KU
3-10. Everyone else

Just kidding. Unfortunately momentum is going the right way with KU so I bet they are back on top

 

[Eielson]

Just tech.

Exactly. Anybody that uses the Big XII's NCAA tournament outcome to argue it was the best conference is grasping at straws.

 

[skyvue]

Exactly. Anybody that uses the Big XII's NCAA tournament outcome to argue it was the best conference is grasping at straws.

And anyone who focuses only on tourney performance while ignoring the regular season is kidding themselves.

A conference could put three teams in the Final Four, but if the other seven or 11 or 13 teams in that conference were middling to bad, it would hardly be the best conference, though some here would argue it was.