After leading the last two NCAA Men’s Tournaments, the Big 12 continues to establish itself as the best conference in 2022-23 men’s college basketball. Here are just a few of the stats from ESPN Analytics showing how dominant the conference has been this season.
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The Big 12 have an average rating of 11 using the Men’s College Basketball Power Index (BPI), the highest of any conference.
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The weakest team, Texas Tech, has a BPI (number of points the team is above or below average) of 9, higher than the average of the second-placed Big Ten (8.5).
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The Big 12 is the only conference with three teams in the BPI’s top 10: Texas (5th), Kansas (8th) and Baylor (10th).
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The remaining 10 toughest schedules belong to 10 teams in the Big 12.
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All 10 teams in the conference are in the top 40 in the BPI. No other conference has 10 teams in the top 50.
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Joe Lunaldi’s Bracket Studies Seven of the ten teams are now on the tournament field, with two of the remaining three teams in his First Four Out (Oklahoma) and Next Four Out (Oklahoma State). If the Big 12 can get eight teams in, it will surpass the 1991 Big East for the highest percentage of teams in the conference going to the big dance. ESPN Analytics gives him a 33% chance of this happening.
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The Big 12 has four teams with over a 1% chance of winning the 2023 NCAA Tournament. No other meetings are more than two.
ESPN Analytics uses a combination of the BPI Rating and the game’s expected closeness to generate a metric called match-up quality for each game. This is a prediction of how fun the game will be on a scale of 0 to 100. Using this metric, his three most exciting games of the regular season take place tonight, and all three are Big 12 matchups featuring top 10s in the conference. BPI team.
Texas Tech’s Baylor (9pm ET, ESPNU) scored 94.6 and the BPI is 1.1 in favor of the Bears.
Kansas at Kansas State University (7 PM ET, ESPN) scored 95.2 points and Kansas won by an average of 1.3 margins.
Texas, Iowa (8pm ET, Big 12/ESPN+) scored 96.3, with BPI predicting the Cyclone to win by 1.8.
Of the more than 10,000 regular-season games of men’s college basketball, only about 50 games earn a rating above 94 each season. minutes), and two were within 6 points. All 20 teams include the AP Top 25 teams. (Baylor vs. Texas Tech could be the first matchup to break the trend, depending on his AP rankings on Monday.)
Over half of these highly anticipated matches have or will feature teams from the Big 12. With so many quality teams, the conference is a must-see TV show all season long and has a legitimate chance of extending the NCAA tournament championship. 3 wins in a row.