Hello, friends. With football season revealing itself to be a pit of despair and the preseason AP Polls upon us, I felt it prudent to turn some attention to the landscape of the best basketball conference in the country, the Big 12. The depth and quality of teams in the Big 12 will be on display again this season, with 4 teams in the AP preseason top 25 and two more receiving votes.
First, a brief note about why you should care about preseason polls, especially the AP poll. Ken Pomeroy, the god-king of modern basketball analytics touts preseason polls as the unbiased assessment of team potential and quality.