Posts Tagged ‘Big 12 Basketball’

No Blake Griffin? Problem.

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

The Kansas Jayhawks, thanks to some incredible 3-point shooting down the stretch, went to Norman, Oklahoma last night and took control of the Big 12 conference by beating the Blake Griffin-less Sooners, 87-78. While there may be some sort of asterisk next to the Kansas’ win, the fact is, the Jayhawks overcame an 14-point [...]

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Blake Griffin Out Against Kansas

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

The front-runner for the Wooden Award — Blake Griffin — will miss tonight’s game against the Kansas Jayhawks as he recovers from a concussion he suffered against Texas on Saturday (see the above video). Looking at the play in question, it’s hard to see when Griffin gets hit hard enough to cause the injury, [...]

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Missouri to Kansas: This is Our Border

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

The Kansas/Missouri border war went down in Columbia last night and the game didn’t disappoint. Two halfway decent rivals went at it for two hours and when the dust settled, Mizzou came away with the win, one they certainly had to earn. At least twice in the second half, the Tigers faced double-digit [...]

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Blake Griffin’s Monster Dunk Weekend

Monday, February 9th, 2009

During the weekend, OU’s Blake Griffin did some things this weekend that made watching college basketball fun. Not only that, but it looks like Oklahoma’s manchild is beginning to distance himself in the race for college basketball player of the year. During the Sooners win over Colorado, Griffin threw down two incredibly nasty [...]

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Time For A Razorback Ranking

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

Who is the best basketball team in the SEC? While the consensus before the season got underway was the Tennessee Volunteers, thanks to the play of the 12-1 Arkansas Razorbacks, it may be time to rethink that answer. Last night, John Pelphrey’s team handled yet another highly-ranked Big 12 foe — the Texas [...]

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What Does 167 Points Look Like?

Friday, November 21st, 2008

Dad’s teams never scored like this
Last night, the Texas Tech Red Raider basketball team decided to emulate Mike Leach’s philosophy that says the best way to beat a team is to outscore them. Humiliatingly so. And so, the basketball version of the Red Raiders beat East Central University, 167-115. So much for [...]

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