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The Big 12 Conference, headquartered in Dallas, Texas, includes 14 schools as of July 1, 2023

Kansas picked as Big 12 preseason favorite

October 19, 2021Tom Johnson

The University of Kansas has been selected by Big 12 coaches as the preseason favorite to win the conference crown, following a 2020-2021 season that saw Baylor won both the […]

Big 12 to its schools : COVID issues would mean losses in 2021

August 18, 2021Tom Johnson

Following the lead set by the Pac-12 Conference earlier this month, the Big 12 Conference has announced that if one of its football teams cannot play this fall due to […]

Baylor University hit with probation and fines after sex-related scandal

August 13, 2021Tom Johnson

The NCAA, on Wednesday, revealed the punishments given to Baylor University athletics, the result of a sexual assault scandal that resulted in the firing of football coach Art Briles, and […]

Memorial Stadium at Faurot Field is the home stadium of the University of Missouri football team in Columbia, Missouri

Kansas State Wildcats at Missouri Tigers on KTTN FM 92.3

Photo credit – Clare Murphy of KOMU-TV via Wikimedia Commons / Columbia, MO

Texas AD replaced by K-State’s Taylor on CFP committee

August 7, 2021Tom Johnson

The College Football Playoff selection committee has replaced University of Texas athletic director Chris Del Conte with Kansas State’s AD Gene Taylor. The announcement came five days after Texas joined […]

Missouri Tigers at Kansas State Wildcats on KTTN FM 92.3

Big 12 accuses ESPN of destabilizing efforts as Texas and OU edge toward SEC

July 30, 2021Tom Johnson

Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby is accusing ESPN of attempting to destabilize the conference by encouraging other conferences to woo members to leave, as Texas and Oklahoma attempt to move […]

Phog Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence, Kansas is the home court of the basketball programs at the University of Kansas

Missouri Tigers at Kansas Jayhawks on KTTN FM 92.3

Photo credit – Batistaya / Wikimedia Commons / Lawrence, KS

Iowa State University is nicknamed the "Cyclones", with the campus located in Ames, Iowa

Iowa State, two Big 10 schools, fire basketball coaches on Monday

March 17, 2021Tom Johnson

The Iowa State Cyclones have fired men’s basketball coach Steve Prohm, a not-surprising move with the proud program failing badly in 2020-2021 to a record of 2-22 overall and 0-18 […]

ISU drops Big 12 title game, lands in Fiesta Bowl

December 24, 2020Tom Johnson

The Iowa State Cyclones went into last weekend hopeful of a first conference championship in 108 years, and while a loss to No. 8 Oklahoma was disappointing, ISU, on Sunday, […]