The Bears have a stellar backcourt and good depth top to bottom, so he may not be asked to shoulder the biggest load in the Big 12, but his knack for scoring coupled with his versatility to play both on and off the ball make him a perfect fit for Baylor's guard-friendly system. He has a nasty streak as a scorer who can catch fire and completely take over games. This summer with the team he averaged 22.8 points per game and led Baylor to the GLOBL Jam Championship Game, highlighted by a remarkable 37-point explosion in the semis over Canada. George, the fifth McDonald's All-American in the history of the Bears program, is set up as a top-three recruit to be a star right away in Waco. TCU guard Mike Miles, Kansas forward Jalen Wilson and Texas' Timmy Allen all got strong consideration here, but Baylor freshman Keyonte George gets the nod here. Big 12 Preseason Player/Freshman of the Year Keyonte George | SG | Baylor Then there's the rest of the Texas contenders - TCU, Texas Tech, Texas - all lurking as programs who could challenge for the top spot. A retooled Baylor will be a dangerous Baylor, led by a stud freshmen, a cast of reliable vets and some former star recruits coming into form.
Kansas, coming off its NCAA championship, looks fit to wear the crown and defend both its Big 12 regular season co-championship and its NCAA Tourney title. We enter the season with a lot of unknowns about the future but a lot of knowns about the present. As such, the 2022-23 season will go down as the last in its current form. Meanwhile, in a retooling effort, Cincinnati, Houston, BYU and UCF are set to join the league next year. OU and Texas are set to depart for the SEC by 2025, possibly sooner, throwing off long-standing regional rivalries and ridding the league of two perennial relevant programs. Its impressive tier of top contenders have been rivaled only by its exceptional depth, with at least six programs advancing to the Big Dance in each of the last eight years and five times in the last six tournaments having a member make the Final Four.īut the winds of change are blowing in the Big 12 and beyond thanks to conference realignment that could at least temporarily throw off course its strong track record as the most challenging conference in college hoops. 1 in the conference rankings seven times while seeing multiple member schools - first with Baylor in 2021 then with Kansas in 2022 - go on to win the NCAA Tournament. The Big 12 has been the class of college basketball for most of the last decade having finished No.
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