The Big 12, You've Got To Be Kidding Me

by: Mr East

Here we are a day removed from the BCS National Championship game, with the focus shifting to NCAA basketball. Before you know it the call will be coming to selection Sunday, and the Madness will begin. I'm not sure if anyone that isn't associated, or affiliated with the Big-12 Conference has noticed, but as of this writing the Big-12 is currently 104-1 straight up at home! let me repeat that, the Big-12 Conference is 104-1 at home! Let me begin by saying that this is a svery good basketball conference, but something has to be done about scheduling. One or more of these teams are going to pay dearly for the price, if the selection committee has the onions to stand up for their own criteria come selection time. That criteria points to scheduling out of conference games, that are noteable and competitive. Let's see as conference play has begun, how the Big-12 got to 104-1. The schedule is a complete disgrace to the conference and the college basketball world, as it is a joke. They have played a total of 105 home games as they enter conference play. Of those 105 games, only 48 of them, that's right only 48 of them have even been lined games! That means 57 were against non-div1 teams, or teams that are so poor, they don't even have their games lined, overall that number represents 54.3$ of the scheduled home games. It is an utter disgrace. It gets even worse. Those 48 lined games, saw 16 of them, against such inferior competition, that 16 of those were lined at 20 points or more for the Big-12 team. That means we are left with 32 of 105 games, that had a line of less than -20! That represents 30.5% of all games. That isn't the end. They had 17 more games lined in double-digits beyond the 20+ games. That leaves 15 games in a conference of 12 teams, with a line of under 10! That represents just over 1 per team! The numbers now show just 15 of 105 games with a line of under 10, or 14.3%. Half of those remaining 15 games saw a line of 7 or more, so the reality is, these teams are playing no one! Baylor may be a better team at 12-1 than most expected them to be, but they are 7-0 at home, and have yet to even have any of the 7 home games have a line, because they are all cupcakes! There are 7 Big-12 schools that have had 4 lined home games or less. They have gone 65-0 at home, and 13 of the 18 show lines by 10+. The bottomline here, if the NCAA selection committee holds their ground by their own indications, when it comes time for March Madness, and a Big-12 team, or 2 with a lofty record is left behind, the critics will easily be silenced by referring to this report.

May the hook be with you!

EAST

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