- Oklahoma Sooners*...Blake Griffin is a beast.
- Texas Longhorns*...Abrams takes over.
- Baylor Bears*...Backcourt among best in nation.
- Kansas Jayhawks*...Cupboard is not bare.
- Oklahoma State Cowboys*...Eaton returns for senior campaign.
- Texas A&M Aggies^...Carter leads the Ags.
- Missouri Tigers^...Carroll is a NBA talent.
- Nebraska Cornhuskers...Absence of Maric hurts, bad.
- Kansas State Wildcats...Bye bye Beasley and Walker.
- Texas Tech Red Raiders...Voskuil one of best deep shooters.
- Iowa State Cyclones...Brackins is a sleeper.
- Colorado Buffaloes...Roby is gone, uh-oh.
* NCAA tournament
^ NIT
This looks to be an exciting year in basketball for the Big 12!
- Oklahoma looks like a perennial Final Four team with B. Griffin and Warren leading the way.
- Texas returns its entire starting group minus Augustin, but I figure they will make it into the Sweet 16.
- The Baylor Bears have an exciting backcourt with All Big 12 Guard Curtis Jerrells leading the way. Sweet 16 anyone?
- Kansas lost practically every important player off of their championship team, but return Sherron Collins and Cole Aldrich. Don't count these guys out...
- My surprise team of the year in the Big 12 is Oklahoma State. I believe they will ride Eaton and Andersen and make it to the NCAAs.
- Texas A&M remains a question mark in my mind, Carter and Sloan just don't get it done for me...
- Demare Carroll nearly went to the NBA but returns to Missouri instead, he will post All Big 12 numbers because of it.
- Nebraska lost a staple player in Alec Maric, a consistently good C. Cookie Miller now leads the team at the point.
- How's life after Mike Wilcats? The departure of him and Walker have the Wildcats looking up in the standings.
- Pat Knight is trying to instill a winning attitude in Lubbock again. Sharp shooter Alan Vosuilk is one of the most deadly three point shooters in the nation.
- Iowa State is my bust team of the year. They lost Wesely Johnson to Syracuse, but they do have a great post player in Craig Brackens.
- Colorado looks like its in shambles. Losing your best player of the last four years is not good...
MVP: Blake Griffin
Best PGs: Curtis Jerrells, Sheron Collins, Cookie MIller, Byron Eaton
Best SGs: A.J. Abrams, LaceDarius Dunn, Willie Warren, Adam Voskuil
Best SFs: Damion James, Josh Carter, James Anderson, Tony Crocker
Best PFs: Blake Griffin, Kevin Rogers, Connor Atchley, Demare Carroll
Best Cs: Cole Aldrich, Craig Brackens, Mamadou Diene
(if you think I left someone out, let your voice be heard!)
