A buzzer-beater sent Texas Tech to the quarterfinal round of the Big 12 Tournament in style, perhaps giving its coach a job-winning victory,

Teams across the Big 12 had a chance to state their case for NCAA Tournament consideration on Saturday, and several made the most of it.

About five minutes prior to the tip of ESPN Big Monday’s tilt between Kansas State and West Virginia, a media member asked me about several thousand unfilled seats in the southeast corner of Bramlage Coliseum.

As if the Kansas State Wildcats were Aesop’s fabled grapes, the Iowa State Cyclones tried in vain to jump and catch K-State through much of the second half of KSU’s 79-70 win at Bramlage Coliseum.

As it stands today, right now, right this second, would you take K-State’s Angel Rodriguez and Will Spradling over KU’s Elijah Johnson and Naadir Tharpe?

Led by the Kansas Jayhawks, which stand at a tidy 15-1, the three major basketball programs in the state of Kansas are a combined 43-5 as conference play is almost two weeks underway.

Five topics on the Big 12 Conference (after a slew of early-season games) and SEC Missouri’s Michael Dixon situation, along with a dime’s worth of other thoughts from around the regional and national college basketball [...]

By Cyle Kitchen For those out there who like to see shoot-outs, this was the game for you. For those with a defensive mindset, you either shut the TV off at halftime or cried yourself [...]

The Big 12 is one of two conferences to have 50 percent of its teams in this week’s BCS Standings top 25. Eight teams have appeared in the BCS standings at some point this year. [...]

In digging through the Big 12′s game notes for this week, this string of information stat stood out: 1) 20% of all Big 12 touchdown drives have been scored in less than a minute (74/371); [...]