Baylor vs. the bracket: Sweet 16 roads (difficult and not), national champ picks & travel thoughts
• The Baylor men are a 3 seed in the South Region vs. UC Santa Barbara, and they're headed to Denver. The winner gets Creighton or N.C. State, a 6-11 matchup. Could this be a favorable road to the Sweet 16 for the Bears, do you think? • As for the Baylor women, they're a 7 seed — better than the 8…
Baylor faces tough Big 12 crowds — is KC an unfair site? Plus NCAA seed predictions, national awards
• The Baylor men lost both games to Iowa State in the regular season by 15 points, and that's who they get Thursday morning to open the Big 12 tournament in front of a hostile crowd that will be packed with Cyclones fans. Is Kansas City a fair setting for Texas teams? What do the Bears need to do t…
Will Baylor make the Sweet 16? Plus Nicki Collen's best coaching job, BU's seniors, Big 12 bests
• It's Senior Day at the Ferrell Center on Saturday, as the Baylor men host Iowa state and the women welcome in West Virginia. Let's talk about those seniors and what they've meant to these programs — Adam Flagler, Flo Thamba, Caitlin Bickle, Ja'Mee Asberry and others, fuzzy COVID eligibility or no…
Who's really #1 in the NCAA? Has South Carolina passed UConn? Plus our bucket list for hoops venues
Special guest Kelly Hines (@KellyHinesTW), veteran sportswriter of the venerable Tulsa World, joins Trib sports guys John Werner and Brice Cherry for some Big 12 and Top 25 basketball talk. • Houston moved back to No. 1 this week for the fifth week this season, which has seen several different tea…
Baylor-Kansas showdown breakdown, BU's title chances, the woeful women and predicting Bears' seeds
• There's a big game Saturday in Lawrence, as the Baylor Bears face Kansas in a Top 10 matchup. BU won the first round by 6 in Waco last month. Can the Bears do it on the road, where they've only one once all-time? • The Baylor men have now won 10 out of 11, with the last 4 by an average of 13 poi…
Baylor's Big 12 title shot: Does Everyday Jon change everything? How did the women blow that lead?
• Everyday Jon returns to a huge ovation from the Baylor faithful. What does his return from injury, unexpected as it is, mean for these Bears? • It's a jumbled Big 12 race out there with Texas holding a narrow lead and then four teams in a logjam behind then. With Tchamwa Tchatchoua back, how do …
Why the Big 12 might not get a 1 seed, superstar Sarah Andrews, conference title predictions & more
• Championship check-in: Here we are at the midpoint of the Big 12 season for the men and the women. Which teams look like the most likely title contenders? • With six of the top 15 teams in the country, the Big 12 is clearly the elite conference in men's college basketball (sorry, SEC). But with …
Making Texas history, Baylor's big win streak, inside AP poll voting and more
We're joined by special guest Danny Davis (@_dannydavis), longtime Austin American-Statesman sports writer and a fellow AP Top 25 voter, for some college hoops talk with the Trib's Brice Cherry and John Werner. • History was made this week in the AP women's basketball poll, as no Texas teams were…
Baylor teams' big turnarounds, end of a mind-blowing streak, love for Jerome Tang
• The Baylor women snapped a two-game losing streak Wednesday night with an impressive 69-48 win over K-State at the Ferrell Center. What does Nicki Collen's team need to do to keep this momentum going? • Meanwhile, the Baylor men got another good win on the road in Lubbock to even its Big 12 reco…
Keyonte George is ridiculous, brick-tastic Baylor women, bad Baylor defense and NCAA predictions
• Keyonte George went off for 32 points the other night as the Baylor men finally won a game, is averaging 17.8 ppg, 4.6 rebounds and 3.4 assists. He's a lottery pick, obviously, but is he the best Bears freshman of the Scott Drew era? • The Baylor women suffered their first Big 12 loss of the yea…