suncoastsooner
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I didn't not say only 3 or 4 teams will get in. I said there are 3 or 4 teams worthy of getting in compared to most years in the Big 12. Kansas may be a Final 4 type team outside of that I don't really see any teams in the Big 12 doing anything in the NCAA Tournament unless KSU gets hot at the end of the year.
Teams worthiness of being in the tournament is not based on ability to reach the FF alone... if it were the tournament wouldn't be larger than 12 to 16 teams even in the best seasons of college basketball. Teams that win their conference and finish in the top 64 of the RPI all have more than valid arguments of being worthy of being in the tournament. Statistically there is virtually no argument that can be made that as a whole of the Big 12 and its teams are not one of the top two or three conferences in America. Actually scratch that... statistically this season the only two conferences that haven't been complete and utter flops have been the Big 12 and Big East. Winning on the road and beating Kansas anywhere have always been the lynch-pin to the conference... Texas is experiencing that now and with a young roster to boot. People in this thread are greatly discounting just how good the teams in this conference are comparative to the rest of the country. The Big 12 is the only conference in the country that is beating top 25 teams more than 40% of the time, nobody else is even really close to that threshold... not even the Big East who the entire land seems to be in awe of.