Big 12 Hoops Roundup -- No Turkeys

Pre-season prognostication suggested the Big 12 Race would be KU, then a clear gap, followed by everyone else. A few things have shaken out in two weeks of play but, sadly, nothing yet suggests that “repeat ad infinitum” prediction may be wrong.

But take heart. With so few games for each team contested and decided, we still have relatively few data points with which to measure our teams’ capabilities. It’s fair to say that, despite a few surprising falters, every conference team woke with reason for hope this Thanksgiving morning. The overall record of the conference? 37-4.

That number is somewhere near meaningless, given the quality of opponents the league has faced on most nights. RPI is…