Six of 10 Big 12 Conference men’s basketball teams are within three games of first place entering the final two and a half weeks of the regular season.
“I think it is crazy,” Kansas coach Bill Self said of the league race Thursday during his weekly news conference at Allen Fieldhouse.
Self is somewhat of an expert on it what takes to win the league, considering his Jayhawks have claimed an NCAA-record 14 consecutive Big 12 titles.
“K-State is still way in the driver’s seat right now. They deserve to be,” Self said of the Wildcats, who enter the weekend 10-3 in conference play — one game ahead of KU and Texas Tech (9-4), teams that happen to be playing at 7 p.