Big 12 season thread ('24-'25)

[12au]

The season begins officially on Monday morning.

But already there have been some televised exhibitions. Arizona has had two. Last night they beat Cal State LA 82-53. Not sure how hard foot was on gas, but not sure that's a great result. That team is Massey 374--a true scrub's scrub.

Kansas St has an exhibition tonight.

 

[Stagnant]

Under the radar conference.

I have Arizona state season tickets. I hope they can compete a little better in this new and imo weaker conference.

 

[12au]

Some observations from yesterday:

• Kansas State looks great
• Utah's machine continues
• Arizona doesn't seem like an upper-tier team
• More of the same for Texas Tech. Can't imagine Chavez walking into that
• Colorado was in a dogfight at Laramie. Formann was out w/ an injury

Thoughts on today:

Interested in what TCU's rotation looks like. They have a bunch of highly touted players so not sure what pecking order is

 

[mred]

Not much to say about Iowa State yesterday. They played one of the worst teams in Div I (Chicago State) and scored the first 29 points of the game. The rest of the game was a bit sloppy as ISU tried all sorts of different combinations on the court, winning 96-56.

All 11 healthy ISU players played between 15 and 23 minutes.

 

[12au]

Kansas beats Lindenwood (Massey 333) 56-43. Basically only 2 returners from last year, one of which (Mayberry) didn't play

 

[nwhoopfan]

Nice debut for Delaney Gibb with BYU yesterday. Led them w/ 17 points, several key defensive plays in the last couple minutes. BYU blew a 16 point lead against a completely rebuilt Idaho team (only 2 returners from last year and a new coach). Cougars pulled it out, but second half was ugly. Only scored 25 after having 42 at halftime.

 

[12au]

UCF beat Megan Duffyless Marquette. I think UCF will be better this year, but not sure by how much. They have legit talent on paper

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

Arizona has the potential to be really good. But we won't know until conference season. The coach made a decision to play virtually all lousy teams (except a tournament) in the OOC part of the schedule. I am baffled, her claim was that playing a harder schedule doesn't help seeding, which I don't agree, and the Big 12 is not as strong as the PAC was, in my opinion.

But having seen them close up, they do look very talented. Very deep with talent, and Adia is taking advantage of the weaker competition to play a lot of different players. And the one thing I always liked about Adia, she says outright what needs to improve, there was a list after Tarleton State, including turnovers and giving up points in the paint.

Another - unsaid- point is that they are going to need to adjust to a different style of refereeing. The PAC had very strong characteristics in the way games were refereed, and this year there are a lot of new faces calling games quite differently.