Conference chatter

Big 12 down this year in hoops

I'd say from top to bottom, it's a relatively down year in the Big 12 Conference for men's hoops. Sure, there's 23-1 Oklahoma, fresh off a dunking clinic against Colorado on Saturday in Norman, Okla.: Sure, there's Kansas and Missouri, who I wouldn't want to run into on a given night ...

Ranking KSU’s Denis Clemente; and a Super Bowl prediction

Welcome to the show, Denis Clemente. Here's guessing you'll be named Big 12 player of the week. Clemente, Kansas State's 6-foot-1 guard, put on one of the best performances in conference history when he scored 44 points in the Wildcats' 85-81 overtime shocker of No. 11 Texas in Austin. The ...

A.J. Abrams: Best Big 12 three-point shooter ever?

Last night, Texas senior guard A.J. Abrams tied former Kansas sharpshooter Jeff Boschee's Big 12 record for career three-pointers made with 338. Here's guessing that Abrams breaks the record in UT's next game, which will take place Saturday against Kansas State at home. Abrams has made at ...

Disgraced Houston hoops player got what he deserved

Apparently, Houston guard Aubrey Coleman thought stomping on the face of Arizona's Chase Budinger was funny. I wasn't laughing after I saw the replay.In case you missed it on Saturday night, Coleman was ejected from the game in Tucson, Ariz., for stomping on Budinger's face after being called ...

Kerry Meier and Dezmon Briscoe were snubbed

KUSports online editor Jesse Newell recently brought to my attention an interesting list he saw on foxsports.com the other day. The topic: The top 100 best returning college football players for 2009. Of the 100 players they ranked, 20 are products of the Big 12 Conference. Here's a ...

NBA’s Thunder and Blake Griffin: A perfect match

Here's a thought: With the first pick of the 2009 NBA Draft, the Oklahoma City Thunder select...Blake Griffin, University of Oklahoma.It'd be a fitting destination for the Big 12 star and would make the Thunder a heck of an entertaining group to watch. Consider these factors:1. If the NBA ...

Game Blog: Oklahoma-Florida

FINAL: Florida 24, Oklahoma 14 Plano, Texas — Trouble for Oklahoma, and on a broader perspective, trouble for the Big 12 Conference. There's virtually no argument right now for the Big 12 being superior to the SEC. Consider these factors: 1. Florida just beat OU in the BCS ...

Texas wins Fiesta Bowl in emphatic fashion

10:55 p.m. update Wow. That was exciting. Texas pulled off a 24-21 triumph over Ohio State in the Fiesta Bowl in Glendale, Ariz. The victory improved the Big 12 to 4-2 in the postseason. The best the conference has ever done in bowl games is 5-3. Player of the game — at least to me — ...