Several nights per week, when working on the sports copy desk for the Lawrence Journal-World, I update the [Big 12 basketball standings][1] so they can be placed on our Scoreboard page. After Wednesday's Big 12 games, a variety of thoughts crossed my mind as I updated the standings. A few ...

Two-thirds of the way through the college basketball season, the Big 12 has had a few unexpected developments. Texas, not too long after a disastrous last season, looks like a national title contender. Kansas State, after the league's coaches selected the Wildcats to win the Big 12, look ...

With the Kansas men’s basketball team set to take on Colorado at 7 p.m. on Tuesday night in Boulder, Colo., I had some leftover items that didn’t make it into my [Colorado feature story on senior Cory Higgins and coach Tad Boyle][1]. Time to empty out the notebook. [1]: ...

In trying to gauge how much of a threat the University of Texas basketball team will pose to Kansas University's six straight Big 12 titles, it would be easy to look at UT's 3-0 conference start this season and think, 'same story, different year.' Remember last season? Texas started 17-0 and ...

Monday night, when Kansas University's basketball team takes on Baylor in Waco, Texas, Jayhawk defenders will undoubtedly chase sharp-shooting, three-point threat LaceDarius Dunn all around the Ferrell Center. Dunn, a senior from Monroe, La., leads the Big 12 in scoring (22.3 points per ...

For the past two years, the Conference Chatter blog has put together a list of the top 10 freshmen basketball players in the Big 12 at mid-season. Oklahoma's [Willie Warren took the top spot][1] in the first year in 2008-09, while Kansas University's [Xavier Henry captured the ...