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Kansas State Advances, Sets Up Epic KC Showdown With KU

Danny Spewak (@dspewak) is a Big 12 Microsite writer. He’s in Kansas City covering the Big 12 Tournament this weekend. Kansas and Kansas State tied for the Big 12 regular season championship....

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Kansas Wins Because It Guards, Plain and Simple

Danny Spewak (@dspewak) is a Big 12 microsite writer. He filed this from the Big 12 Championship game in Kansas City. Clank, clank, clank. In an arena jam-packed to the rafters and charged with as much...

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Quick Thoughts on the Big 12’s Draws

There were no surprises on Selection Sunday in the Big 12 Conference. Kansas earned a #1 seed after winning the league tournament this weekend. Kansas State and Oklahoma State, the two other Top 25...

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The Big Picture Implications of Iowa State’s Loss

Danny Spewak (@dspewak) is a Big 12 Microsite writer.  One shot does not define a program. Aaron Craft’s dramatic, I-can’t-believe-that-just-went-in three-pointer in the final milliseconds of...

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Big 12 M5: 03.26.13 Edition

The search has begun for Texas Tech‘s next head basketball coach, but this is hardly a typical situation. One of the top candidates for the job is, um, the guy who coached the team this year. Chris...

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Big 12 M5: 03.27.13 Edition

Oklahoma was a pleasant surprise this season. Lon Kruger worked his magic to lead a struggling program to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since Blake Griffin roamed the streets of Norman, so...

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Assessing the Season: Oklahoma Sooners

And then there was one. After Iowa State’s close loss to Ohio State and Kansas’ strong second half win over North Carolina on Sunday, only one of the Big 12’s five NCAA Tournament teams remained...

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Assessing the Season: Iowa State Cyclones

As the season winds down and Big 12 teams continue to find themselves eliminated from the postseason, we’re taking a team-by-team look at the 2012-13 season. Up next: Iowa State. Final Record: 23-12,...

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Big 12 M5: 03.28.13 Edition

Your move, Texas Tech. Five-star recruit Keith Frazier just tentatively committed to play for the Red Raiders, but he wants to play for interim head coach Chris Walker. That means Tech might need to...

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Assessing the Season: Kansas State Wildcats

As the season winds down and the Big 12 teams continue to find themselves eliminated from the postseason, we’re taking a look back at the 2012-13 campaign on a team-by-team basis. Next up: Kansas...

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Assessing the Season: Oklahoma State Cowboys

As the season winds down and Big 12 teams continue to find themselves eliminated from the post-season, we’re taking a look back on a team-by-team basis at the 2012-13 season. Next up: Oklahoma State....

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Big 12 M5: 03.29.13 Edition

Texas Tech once hired Bob Knight. So why not Tubby Smith? Sources indicate the Red Raiders have met with Smith, a one-time national champion at Kentucky and the recently-fired head coach at Minnesota....

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All Things Considered, Texas Tech Hits Home Run With Tubby Smith

Tubby Smith never finished above .500 in the Big Ten during his six seasons at Minnesota. That got him fired. His previous employer, Kentucky, essentially pushed him out after he couldn’t live up to...

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Big 12 Season Wrap: the Highs, the Lows, All the In-Betweens

In a big-picture sense, the Big 12 provided us with no surprises this season. Kansas won the league again, TCU finished in last place, five teams made the NCAA Tournament, and all was right with the...

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Closing Out the Big 12 Microsite

Thank you. That’s all we need to say. Thank you for reading this microsite and for validating our work. From the bottom of the hearts of Danny Spewak, Kory Carpenter and Nate Kotisso, the three Big 12...

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