When the 2024-25 college basketball season started, Big 12 coaches were touting the conference as the deepest in the country. And the AP Poll voters agreed. The Big 12 had five of the top 10 teams in the nation in the preseason AP Top 25 Poll — including Arizona at No.

This past Saturday featured the craziest, most upside-down day of the men's college basketball season. Eleven AP-ranked teams lost, according to ESPN Research, with 10 of them losing to lower-ranked or unranked opponents.

The Boilermakers are well positioned for their third straight Big Ten championship, and claim the top spot in the Big Ten men's basketball power rankings.

We have arrived at the point of the college basketball season where we can identify - for the most part - what we have from each team. That is especially true for the Big 12 Conference on the men’s side.