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The Lunch: Big 12 hoops shaping up to be another grind

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The simplified strategy for making the NCAA tournament? Handle your winnable nonleague games and go .500 in the Big 12. Voila! You’re no worse than a No. 9 seed.

West Virginia currently is taking care of that first part, though winning even half the conference games is shaping up as a challenge—not just for the Mountaineers, but perhaps any team outside of Kansas, Oklahoma and Iowa State.

That’s because the Big 12 looks pretty deep yet again. (Every coach in the league will tell you this, just as every coach in every power league will compliment their own environs.