AP: Big 12 best basketball league again, brutal half-season left

AP: Big 12 best basketball league again, brutal half-season left

By STEPHEN HAWKINS
AP Basketball Writer

The Big 12 has the nation’s No. 1 team in Oklahoma and half of the league’s teams are ranked in the top 15 of the Top 25.

For the third season in a row, the conference has the best cumulative RPI with just more than a month to go before March Madness. And in a “break” from league play last weekend, the Big 12 won seven of 10 games against the Southeastern Conference in an event that used to be played in December.

“The league has clearly established itself as the best, year in and year out, in the country,” Sooners coach Lon Kruger said. “We’re on a good run with really, really good young players and the success last weekend has pretty much validated what’s being said about the conference.”

Now comes the second half of the league’s brutal round-robin schedule, with each of the 10 teams exactly halfway through their 18 Big 12 games. …

Read the rest at http://www.wvva.com/story/31143760/big-12-best-basketball-league-again-brutal-half-season-left


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