As we start to wrap up one of the craziest basketball off-seasons ever, who are the biggest winners and losers in Big 12 Basketball?
Let’s be honest. Nobody foresaw how the college basketball offseason would play out in wake of quite possibly the craziest six months of our lifetime. The Covid-19 Pandemic not only shut down Conference Championships but also our beloved March Madness tournament.
However, while we were busy trying to keep our lives together, the Big 12 and other basketball conferences alike continued working behind the scenes trying to bolster their respective programs for the upcoming 20-21 season and beyond.
The Big 12 has been one of college basketball’s most consistent conferences for a while now, and they continued to show us why this past season. Baylor and Kansas proved superior as top dogs, each finishing top four in the rankings, with both teams holding the number one spot at different junctions of the year.
While the Bears and Jayhawks were the only two teams with a winning percentage above .500 in conference play, Big 12 Basketball did boast eight teams with an overall win percentage of .500 and better. Of those eight, seven were featured in ESPN’s Joe Lunardi’s Bracketology as teams in or on the bubble in the aforementioned canceled March Madness tournament.
With that being said, let’s take an in-depth look into each teams offseason, and see just how well or how poorly things have gone thus far: