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Ironically enough, despite the playing of five separate Big 12 games, the conference standings remained unchanged after Saturday's action.
What does it all mean? Well, Baylor and Kansas are pulling away from the pack heading into their Big Monday showdown tonight, with Missouri hot on their heels.
And at three games out of first place, the Cats probably should just forget about competing for a conference championship for the rest of the month until they at least, oh, I don't know, get back to .500.
K-State now is forced to battle it out in Mediocrity Land with the likes of Texas, Oklahoma State, Texas Tech, Oklahoma, Iowa State and Texas A&M.
Luckily, guess who our next six games are against? Win five or six of those and then we'll start talking title again.
| Seed* | Record* | Tourney* | RPI | Pomeroy | Sagarin | Streak | Best Win** | Worst Loss** | Coach | |
| Kansas | 1 | 16-2 | NCAA | 20 | 3 | 3 | W-7 | Ohio State | Davidson | Bill Self |
| Baylor | 2 | 16-2 | NCAA | 3 | 8 | 11 | W-17 | West Virginia | None | Scott Drew |
| Missouri | 3 | 15-3 | NCAA | 14 | 7 | 7 | W-2 | Illinois | Kansas State | Frank Haith |
| Kansas State | 4 | 11-7 | NCAA | 32 | 22 | 22 | L-2 | Missouri | Oklahoma | Frank Martin |
| Texas | 5 | 10-8 | Bubble | 64 | 25 | 28 | L-1 | Temple | Oregon State | Rick Barnes |
| Iowa State | 6 | 8-10 | Bubble | 54 | 43 | 43 | L-2 | Texas | Drake | Fred Hoiberg |
| Oklahoma | 7 | 7-11 | NIT | 67 | 72 | 66 | W-1 | Kansas State | Cincinnati | Lon Kruger |
| Oklahoma State | 8 | 4-14 | None | 99 | 112 | 107 | L-1 | Missouri State | Pittsburgh | Travis Ford |
| Texas A&M | 9 | 3-15 | None | 189 | 127 | 133 | W-1 | St. John's | Rice | Billy Kennedy |
| Texas Tech | 10 | 0-18 | None | 192 | 223 | 220 | L-4 | Troy | Texas A&M | Billy Gillispie |
Note: As any of these numbers change, I will bold and color-code them to indicate direction of change.
Team names that are colored indicate a change in seed.
(green = upward, red = downward)
*Predicted
**According to RealTimeRPI
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Looks as if Baylor finally has done enough to pick up a few more predicted wins and surpass Missouri in the seed prediction matrix.
Other than that, just a few one-game adjustments were made in the predicted win-loss records.
You might think K-State's loss would have been far more damaging, but OUTLOOK takes a long view of events and doesn't react dramatically to one-game deviations from predictions.
GAMER: Now has Baylor winning at Kansas and Missouri, Kansas State winning at Texas A&M, and Missouri losing at Kansas.
Pomeroy: Now has Baylor winning at Texas, Iowa State winning at Oklahoma State and Kansas losing at Baylor.
Sagarin: Now has Baylor winning at Texas, Iowa State winning at Oklahoma State, Kansas losing at Baylor and Oklahoma State losing at Texas A&M.
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Five misses, and three of them are due to the Cats. I'd have a freakin' 85-percent accuracy rate if I just flipped the predicted result for every single K-State game, even though that would have had us winning at KU.
The mercurial unpredictability of Team Turmoil aside, the pattern that's quickly emerging is that home court rules as strongly as always. All five home teams held sway on Saturday. Road teams only won six of the 20 games.
That pattern should hold this week. All five teams are predicted to win and almost unanimously, with only GAMER inexplicably and suddenly deciding that it likes Baylor to win tonight, despite usually favoring home teams.
Cumulative pick record: 15-5 (.750)
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Results are plugged into this wonderful tool to generate the predicted records and seed order. Winners are predicted by a best-of-three system comprising three statistical prediction models:
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0 recs | 3 comments
I haz giggles about TT's worst loss being A&M!
What’s wrong with that team? Was Turgeon really that good? Is Kennedy being sick really that important? Hasn’t he been back for a while?
Thank you for doing these BC, but I’m not optimistic about the Cats making 10+ conference wins at this point.
Sean T - January 16, 2012
All of the above.
Also add in Khris Middleton’s injury, hampering the one really good scorer they had.
Don’t give up on the Cats just yet…
BracketCat - January 16, 2012
People thought Middleton was going to take the next step and be a force
It hasn’t happened. Factor in new coach and etc, and I’m not that surprised they’ve struggled. But I certainly am surprised. Then again I picked them to go 12-6 before the noncon started. woops.
Still some talent on that team. They’re gonna sneak up and beat somebody. I think.
Andrew Clark - January 17, 2012
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