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A 6 game gauntlet to end the Big 12 regular season
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by HawkErrant
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
Top 5 Big 12 Standings through
TUESDAY 2026-02-17The remaining 11 programs do not have a realistic chance of ending up regular season conference champions.
These 5 are the contenders as of 2026-02-15,
This thread to be updated at the end of each B12 Conference game day thru the last regular season games on Saturday, March 7.
The Big 12 Tournament begins on Tuesday, March 10.
Thanks to ASU beating Texas Tech in Tempe on Tuesday Feb 17...
UA is 0.5 games behind UH and plays BYU Wednesday night in Tucson.
ISU is 1.0 games behind UH.
KU is 1.5 games behind UH and plays OKS Wednesday night in Stillwater.
TT is 2.0 games behind.UH
The key is KU is just 1 game behind both UH and UA in the LOSS column with 6 games left starting with the Cowboys.
KU controls its destiny.
Win out and be guaranteed a least a SHARE of the Big 12 regular season crown as that would mean beating both UH in AFH and UA in Tucson, giving both those programs at LEAST 3 losses.
The Wednesday Feb 18 game in Stillwater - and essentially every game left in the regular season - qualifies as MUST WIN if KU wants at least a share of what would be its 21st Big 12 title in 30 Big 12 seasons, and NCAA best 64th conference title in program history.
Remember, there are no tiebreakers for the regular season crown.
Programs with the same final regular season Big 12 Conference record are co-champions.
Tiebreakers are solely for seeding in the Big 12 T, and if KU wins out they would be guaranteed to be in the Top 4 seeds (and get the double byes for both Tuesday and Wednesday tournament competition) because KU would hold the first tiebreakers - head-to-head competition - over TT (1-0), UH (1-0) and UA (2-0)
THE GAUNTLET
LAST 6 REGULAR SEASON GAMES FOR THE 5 LISTED PROGRAMS
MONDAY 2026-02-16 thru
SATURDAY 2026-03-07
KANSASHOUSTONARIZONAIOWA STATETEXAS TECH
NB: I edited the origin post for this thread to properly reflect ISU's results and standing after beating UH in Ames on Monday.
I was so excited that UH lost that while I updated UH correctly it seems I could not bring myself to immediately update ISU's record either in this thread or in my original post in porthawk's "Iowa State beat Houston tonight" post.
I reckon I just didn't want to write anything good about ISU
Who wudda thunk it?
I caught the errors while creating this thread entry for Tuesday night's games.
Folks, I'm a septuagenarian - I really do appreciate proofreaders! Don't be shy!
- HE
TUESDAY 2026-02-17
Team Big 12 GB
Houston 11-2 -
Arizona 10-2 0.5
Iowa State 10-3 1.0
KANSAS 9-3 1.5
Texas Tech 9-4 2.0These 5 are the contenders as of 2026-02-15,
This thread to be updated at the end of each B12 Conference game day thru the last regular season games on Saturday, March 7.
The Big 12 Tournament begins on Tuesday, March 10.
Thanks to ASU beating Texas Tech in Tempe on Tuesday Feb 17...
UA is 0.5 games behind UH and plays BYU Wednesday night in Tucson.
ISU is 1.0 games behind UH.
KU is 1.5 games behind UH and plays OKS Wednesday night in Stillwater.
TT is 2.0 games behind.UH
The key is KU is just 1 game behind both UH and UA in the LOSS column with 6 games left starting with the Cowboys.
KU controls its destiny.
Win out and be guaranteed a least a SHARE of the Big 12 regular season crown as that would mean beating both UH in AFH and UA in Tucson, giving both those programs at LEAST 3 losses.
The Wednesday Feb 18 game in Stillwater - and essentially every game left in the regular season - qualifies as MUST WIN if KU wants at least a share of what would be its 21st Big 12 title in 30 Big 12 seasons, and NCAA best 64th conference title in program history.
Remember, there are no tiebreakers for the regular season crown.
Programs with the same final regular season Big 12 Conference record are co-champions.
Tiebreakers are solely for seeding in the Big 12 T, and if KU wins out they would be guaranteed to be in the Top 4 seeds (and get the double byes for both Tuesday and Wednesday tournament competition) because KU would hold the first tiebreakers - head-to-head competition - over TT (1-0), UH (1-0) and UA (2-0)
THE GAUNTLET
LAST 6 REGULAR SEASON GAMES FOR THE 5 LISTED PROGRAMS
MONDAY 2026-02-16 thru
SATURDAY 2026-03-07
KANSAS
Feb 18 Wed @OKS
Feb 21 Sat CIN
Feb 23 Mon UH
Feb 28 Sat @UA
Mar 3 Tue @ASU
Mar 7 Sat KSUFeb 16 Mon @ISU Lost
Feb 21 Sat UA
Feb 23 Mon @KU
Feb 28 Sat CU
Mar 3 Tue BU
Mar 7 Sat @OKSFeb 18 Wed BYU
Feb 21 Sat @UH
Feb 24 Tue @BU
Feb 28 Sat KU
Mar 2 Mon ISU
Mar 7 Sat @CUFeb 16 Mon UH WON
Feb 21 Sat @BYU
Feb 24 Tue @UU
Feb 28 Sat TT
Mar 2 Mon @UA
Mar 7 Sat ASUFeb 17 Tue @ASU Lost
Feb 21 Sat KSU
Feb 24 Tue CIN
Feb 28 Sat @ISU
Mar 3 Tue TCU
Feb 7 Sat @BYUNB: I edited the origin post for this thread to properly reflect ISU's results and standing after beating UH in Ames on Monday.
I was so excited that UH lost that while I updated UH correctly it seems I could not bring myself to immediately update ISU's record either in this thread or in my original post in porthawk's "Iowa State beat Houston tonight" post.
I reckon I just didn't want to write anything good about ISU
Who wudda thunk it?
I caught the errors while creating this thread entry for Tuesday night's games.
Folks, I'm a septuagenarian - I really do appreciate proofreaders! Don't be shy!
- HE "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
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