NCAA Power Ranking's:
12. Whoever Is the Second-Best Big 12 Team
This is getting silly. The knock on Baylor was that the Bears weren't good on the road. Then they went into Morgantown and shut down 15th-ranked West Virginia on Saturday. This is great, I thought. Now I can put an actual team in my power rankings. And then Baylor followed up its first big road win of the season by losing badly at home to Oklahoma State on Monday, because of course it did. So there goes that plan. But wait - what about Iowa State? The most powerful power rankings in college basketball gave the Cyclones the "second-best Big 12 team" label last week, so isn't it theirs until they lose it? Well, Iowa State doesn't want the no. 2 spot, either, or at least it didn't appear that way when the Cyclones refused to play defense at Oklahoma on Monday. So now we're left with the two Oklahoma teams battling for the fleeting honor of being the conference's second-best team. Oklahoma State's last three games were wins at Texas, vs. Kansas, and at Baylor, which is a stretch as impressive as any team in America has pulled off all season. But Oklahoma has won five straight, with two wins over the Cowboys in the last month, so I guess the Sooners get the nod.
Can we please get this sorted out soon, Big 12? I know it's fun for fans to turn on a Big 12 game and have no idea what outcome to expect. But what about MY needs? If it wasn't already obvious, hopefully the Marshawn Lynch saga proved that sportswriters are the most important people in the world and everyone should bend over backward for us. I mean, I know that the Big 12 is a great conference, but the truth is that I actually don't know that. I only think that. I don't really know if the Big 12 is full of great teams that aren't shooting up the polls because they beat the hell out of each other. Maybe the Big 12 will go nuts in the NCAA tournament and get six teams in the Elite Eight. Or maybe the conference is just OK, none of the teams is that great, and we overestimate them because they put on a good show. Or maybe all of these teams are awful. I mean, a five-game winning streak is like a miracle in this conference, and good teams can typically win five straight without breaking a sweat. So which is it? I have no idea. And this is a problem because it's my job to have an idea. So please get your shit together, Big 12. You're making me look like an idiot.
He ends up picking ou (understandably), but that oSu was even in the conversation indicates we've come a long way, baby!
12. Whoever Is the Second-Best Big 12 Team
This is getting silly. The knock on Baylor was that the Bears weren't good on the road. Then they went into Morgantown and shut down 15th-ranked West Virginia on Saturday. This is great, I thought. Now I can put an actual team in my power rankings. And then Baylor followed up its first big road win of the season by losing badly at home to Oklahoma State on Monday, because of course it did. So there goes that plan. But wait - what about Iowa State? The most powerful power rankings in college basketball gave the Cyclones the "second-best Big 12 team" label last week, so isn't it theirs until they lose it? Well, Iowa State doesn't want the no. 2 spot, either, or at least it didn't appear that way when the Cyclones refused to play defense at Oklahoma on Monday. So now we're left with the two Oklahoma teams battling for the fleeting honor of being the conference's second-best team. Oklahoma State's last three games were wins at Texas, vs. Kansas, and at Baylor, which is a stretch as impressive as any team in America has pulled off all season. But Oklahoma has won five straight, with two wins over the Cowboys in the last month, so I guess the Sooners get the nod.
Can we please get this sorted out soon, Big 12? I know it's fun for fans to turn on a Big 12 game and have no idea what outcome to expect. But what about MY needs? If it wasn't already obvious, hopefully the Marshawn Lynch saga proved that sportswriters are the most important people in the world and everyone should bend over backward for us. I mean, I know that the Big 12 is a great conference, but the truth is that I actually don't know that. I only think that. I don't really know if the Big 12 is full of great teams that aren't shooting up the polls because they beat the hell out of each other. Maybe the Big 12 will go nuts in the NCAA tournament and get six teams in the Elite Eight. Or maybe the conference is just OK, none of the teams is that great, and we overestimate them because they put on a good show. Or maybe all of these teams are awful. I mean, a five-game winning streak is like a miracle in this conference, and good teams can typically win five straight without breaking a sweat. So which is it? I have no idea. And this is a problem because it's my job to have an idea. So please get your shit together, Big 12. You're making me look like an idiot.
He ends up picking ou (understandably), but that oSu was even in the conversation indicates we've come a long way, baby!
