Big12 Basketball 2025-26

Updated Bi 12 power rankings… before this weekends game
the one @RezClone has been waiting for… and not so much @justinhub2003

Rank Team Shift notes/this weeks thoughts
1 . Arizona +1 previously: 2 neutral - beat uconn since last ranking
2 . BYU +1 previously: 3 Stock up: got some good resume wins, and 2pt loss is looking better by the minute
3 . Kansas +2 previously: 5 Stock way up: Beat Tennessee, and more comfortably beat Syracuse than Houston… both without peterson.
4 . Iowa State +3 previously: 7 Stock up: to no fault of their own their top wins have lost luster (stacking losses), but they did what they were supposed to
5 . Houston -4 previously: 1 Stock down: in A fair power ranking with no preseason bias, they are this low right now… But will rise as the season goes
6 . Texas Tech -2 previously: 4 Stock down: shameful beat down by purdue
7 . Baylor -1 previously: 6 Stock neutral: carr has started to build draft buzz, great starting core but depth is lack luster
8 . Oklahoma State 0 previously: 8 Stock neutral: still undefeated, and now fully healthy, crazy deep, they have 9 guys they play 20 mins each
9 . TCU +7 previously: 16 Stock up: took michigan to the wire (one of the few that did), beat top 10 florida. Still worst loss in the league
10 . Colorado +5 previously: 15 Stock Up: undefeated with 2 p5 wins. A couple of their 3star freshmen are breaking out
11 . Arizona State +1 previously: 12 Stock Up: 2nd place in maui invitational, beat texas
12 . Kansas State -3 previously: 9 Stock down: pj haggerty is putting up insane numbers but the defense is still really bad
13 . West Virginia -2 previously: 11 Stock down: 2 straighht losses to nit/buble team level ncaa teams…but still destroyed pitt from earlier
14 . Cincinnati -4 previously: 10 Stock down: lost to eastern Michigan, Dayton is the sole reason they arent last. And slight grace because 3 different bigs were out in the EMU game
15 . UCF -2 previously: 13 Stock Neutral: beat pitt and a&m since last ranking
16 . Utah -2 previously: 14 Stock neutral: 2 mid major losses, but then beat ole miss.

every team has beaten a p5 team (or dayton)… every team is atleast somewhat capable… also all seem beatable, its looking to be a fun league

if everyone who is supposed to win today wins, my rankings still holds (byu wins, tcu and Colorado loss)… would make big moves if any of the results are flipped

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I think with another month of time to mesh together they have a chance to be pretty good by big 12 play.

Davis should be fine to play the rest of the year

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This is my favorite one yet.

I think 1-16, I can make a good case you placed every one of them correctly. Good comments, too. Fair top to bottom, excellent work.:+1:

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I think this is pretty solid.

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I’m not sure wtf happened to mississippi state to start 3-4 (should’ve been 2-5) though St. John’s and creighton should be just fine by the time we get to the stretch run

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This is great.

The sec has so many quality losses. That should get the 9-10 bids.

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I agree, but it’s entirely a fair point.

A week from today ISU has Purdue IN Mackey Arena.

That one will stick at or near the top no matter what…especially if ISU can pull it off.

If you’re a Cyclone fan, or really if you’ve just watched them so far this year at all, you gotta feel pretty decent about that upset happening.

It’s undeniably a lot more likely than anyone would have probably thought.

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Stopped by to say… Fire Wes Miller and John Cunningham.

Beg Mick Cronin to come back home. I think he’d listen.

UC is 315 in offense when you take away kenpom preseason bias. What a crap show.

Baba miller being out is no excuse. He needs fired today.

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Idk man… LA is pretty nice… especially when you compare it to Cincy during basketball season…

I am not a fan of LA. But I’d probably stay there vs Cincy purely based on weather alone

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Something tells me the area between Beverly Hills and Santa Monica is probably pretty nice…

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Then there’s this… top image is Beverly Hills weather, bottom is Cincy…

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Best part of LA is having Griffith Park in your back yard! This morning’s hike up.

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Not worth making its own thread, and it’s really just the ppl I talk to mostly in this thread anyways…

Cyhawk Wrestling starts at Noon CT on ESPN. Very excited. I’d recommend watching!

This is as big as it gets in the sport, or really any Big 12 sport. The environment will be a bit different than bball, but no less electric.

Go Cyclones :tornado::tornado:

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We only watch Rasslin’ down here…

triple h wrestling GIF by WWE

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Mick signed up to play in the PAC 12… he loathes the Midwest travel schedule now.

I think he’d come home. He is from Cincinnati, graduated from Cincinnati and all his family still live here. His daughter is likely on the verge of graduating soon.

I think he’d entertain it.

Also. He never wanted to leave. He had his friend Mike Decousey write an article essentially begging the AD to give him the extension he deserved. But Mike Bohn wanted new blood so he offered mick a lower contract than he previously had. It was his way of firing him with out doing it.

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Gonna come down to the last match!!!

We haven’t beat iowa since 2004.

SHOULD be an even match too.




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Wyoming giving Tech a tough game. 3/4 the way thru, 46-51

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gonna be so annoying seeing their guys magically make every contested 3 again when they come to fertitta after playing so-so all of noncon :wilted_flower:

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