Jordan Woodard might not be the best player in the Big 12, but Oklahoma's point guard will be more indispensable to his school in 2016-17 than any other player in this conference.
There's a fine line between being valuable and being indispensable, and it's important not to confuse the two. These are not necessarily the 10 players we would nominate for preseason All-Big 12 honors but rather the ones their respective rosters could least afford to lose.
Ranking these 10 players boiled down to a matter of picturing what each team would look like if that player were suddenly no longer on the roster.