Big 12 season thread ('24-'25)

[nwhoopfan]

Closer than some anticipated but Colorado beat Houston 66-58.

In the opener UCF beat BYU 81-69. Amber Whiting is in over her head, right? Can everybody else see that? Jump from high school to college is a leap that just shouldn't be made for coaches.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Arizona St. nearly blew a 19 point 4th quarter lead but held on against Cincinnati.

 

[southie]

Breya Cunningham was such a highly-recruited post player out of California a few years ago. Honorable Mention is not the level I predicted for her at Arizona.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Now that's how you throw a party. I think every lower seeded team won today. Oops, 3 out of 4. Would've been a huge upset if Houston beat Colorado.

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

Breya Cunningham was such a highly-recruited post player out of California a few years ago. Honorable Mention is not the level I predicted for her at Arizona.

She has a foul problem. Not "physical" fouls. Just tries to block every shot, including times when it is impossible. And reaches in on plays when she isn't under the basket.

Her touch on scoring is unbelievable. No matter how awkward the shot looks, it usually goes in, a lot of jump hooks. But it is hard to score when you are sitting on the bench due to foul trouble.

If she played more, she would have been on one of the teams, she is probably one of the most talented players on Arizona. The others are inconsistent, Jada Williams if she was less streaky and slightly more of a scorer (and if Arizona had been better over-all) probably would have been somewhere on the list. In the future, Swann that made the freshman team is an all conference prospect - she is that talented but needs to make the freshman-sophomore leap and expand her skill set.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Kansas St. beat UCF 80-65 in the first game of the day.

 

[azfan]

Arizona St. nearly blew a 19 point 4th quarter lead but held on against Cincinnati.

Oh yeah! Their next game is likely to be a real spectacle.

 

[azfan]

Kitties are in a cat fight with the Buffaloes in Kansas City. All freshman Big 12 Swann commits a freshman play at the end of the first half to allow the Buffs to tie it up.

This is the pace that coach Barnes would like to play and I know she's got fingers crossed that Cunningham can stay on the floor.

 

[azfan]

She has a foul problem. Not "physical" fouls. Just tries to block every shot, including times when it is impossible. And reaches in on plays when she isn't under the basket.

Her touch on scoring is unbelievable. No matter how awkward the shot looks, it usually goes in, a lot of jump hooks. But it is hard to score when you are sitting on the bench due to foul trouble.

If she played more, she would have been on one of the teams, she is probably one of the most talented players on Arizona. The others are inconsistent, Jada Williams if she was less streaky and slightly more of a scorer (and if Arizona had been better over-all) probably would have been somewhere on the list. In the future, Swann that made the freshman team is an all conference prospect - she is that talented but needs to make the freshman-sophomore leap and expand her skill set.

Yep! 4 minutes into the second half against the Buffs she picks up her third foul and heads to the bench. Really curious coach Barnes is able to find a fabulous outfit and matching shoes but unable to assist her post figure it out on the defensive end

The 1.2 million dollar coach just call timeout maybe to provide some quick in game instruction on how to avoid fouls.

Maybe there wasn't successful defensive teaching but all freshmen Big 12 Swann comes out of the time out and lights up two quick threes and maybe the kitties are on to the quarters.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Down goes Arizona. 61-58 Colorado nudges them.

 

[azfan]

Down goes Arizona. 61-58 Colorado nudges them.

Bear

Barnes' crew couldn't hold on to the double digit lead in the second half in spite of having the rest. The Buffs beat the kitties earlier in the year so I had a suspicion that this was going to be the end of the road for that team from the dirty t although coach Barnes may be able to take her squad to the WNIT

 

[azfan]

Down goes Arizona. 61-58 Colorado nudges them.

Out of the dance......

 

[nwhoopfan]

Arizona St. managing to not get blown out, but Iowa St. is in control down the stretch. Crooks is on the verge of a 40 piece.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Wait, I swear I saw Crooks w/ 39 points, but now I see Brown w/ 41 and Crooks has 20. Well SOMEBODY from Iowa St. had a big game today!

 

[nwhoopfan]

Sorry, I don't like this floor. About a million XII symbols plastered all over it. It's about as distracting as TCU's home court.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Big 12 is definitely the zaniest of the conference tourneys so far. Right now Utah is looking like they've never played basketball before and trailing Texas Tech by double digits.

 

[cancontent]

Sorry, I don't like this floor. About a million XII symbols plastered all over it. It's about as distracting as TCU's home court.

I like it personally but to each their own. Trying to figure out why the BIG10 opted for a checkered pattern for the key right now. A tip of the cap to being in Indianapolis and the Indy 500?

 

[ISUnorth]

Sorry, I don't like this floor. About a million XII symbols plastered all over it. It's about as distracting as TCU's home court.

Sort of hate it but after a bit at least I stopped noticing it.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Texas Tech wins 75-64. Who was that team wearing Utah's uniforms? Didn't recognize them.

Not sure if Oklahoma St. is happy about this or not. Theoretically an easier opponent, but those are the games that have given them trouble all season. Of course TT might be tired with their 3rd game in 3 days.