Put your boxing gloves on and get ready to get back into the ring because the two-and-a-half-month slugfest that is the round-robin Big 12 basketball season is upon us. No more will we find on the schedule teams with two directions in their school name or with five letters in the abbreviation of that name. And the Texas Tech basketball team will not have the luxury of easing into the conference portion of the year.
Greeting the eight Big 12 newcomers and the six freshmen on the roster will be a trio of games that range on the scale of difficulty from tricky to daunting.