Iowa State won the Big 12 Tournament title last season and now is one of three league teams ranked among the top eight in the nation.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – In what may end up as the nation’s best conference two years in a row, it’s in with the new – but not exactly out with the old.
The Big 12 will follow up a year in which the league ranked as the nation’s best in RPI with a scintillating 2015-16 season in which three teams – Kansas, Iowa State and Oklahoma – rank in the top eight in the preseason USA Today coaches poll and two more, Baylor and West Virginia, are in the top 25.