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Kansas State at Baylor: Key storylines for the crucial Big 12 matchup

By Jason Burgess

WACO, TX - FEBRUARY 21: Head coach Scott Drew of the Baylor Bears reacts as the Baylor Bears take on the Oklahoma Sooners at Ferrell Center on February 21, 2017 in Waco, Texas. (Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images)
WACO, TX - FEBRUARY 21: Head coach Scott Drew of the Baylor Bears reacts as the Baylor Bears take on the Oklahoma Sooners at Ferrell Center on February 21, 2017 in Waco, Texas. (Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images) /
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KANSAS CITY, MO – MARCH 10: The Kansas Jayhawks watch a highlight video after the Jayhawks defeated the West Virginia Mountaineers 81-70 to win the Big 12 Basketball Tournament Championship game at Sprint Center on March 10, 2018 in Kansas City, Missouri. (Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images)
KANSAS CITY, MO – MARCH 10: The Kansas Jayhawks watch a highlight video after the Jayhawks defeated the West Virginia Mountaineers 81-70 to win the Big 12 Basketball Tournament Championship game at Sprint Center on March 10, 2018 in Kansas City, Missouri. (Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images) /

1. Can someone else win the Big 12?

Seemingly since the beginning of time, the road to a Big 12 regular-season championship has run through Lawrence, Kansas and seemingly at some point every year we begin to wonder if this is the year the route takes a detour. It is now February and perhaps this is the year the Jayhawks regular-season reign comes to an end, and two teams hoping that detour runs through their campuses are Baylor and Kansas State.

Both teams have been playing well, going a combined 12-2 over the last seven games and each team has eight games on their schedule after this one, and each has one meeting left with the aforementioned Jayhawks. Speaking of the schedule for these two teams, Kansas isn’t the only contender they still have to deal with. This is the first in the home-and-home series between these two, and Baylor has road games at Texas Tech and Iowa State on Feb. 16 and Feb. 19 and finish the regular season at Allen Fieldhouse against Kansas.

Before this matchup, Kansas State knocked off Kansas and the return engagement takes place on Feb. 25. They also host Iowa State on Feb. 16. We may all be wrong once again, but this may be the year the Big 12 title resides in somewhere other than Lawrence.

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