The Big 12 tourny. Gentlemen, make your bets

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Let’s have a little contest. Here is your brackets. Fill them out.
Seeds and matchups are set for the 2025 Big 12 Men’s Basketball Tournament in KC

Tuesday games
Cinn- OSU, I’ll say Cinn
KSt-ASU, I’ll say KSt and that they don’t fire Hurley, what say you?
TCU-Colo, TCU
Utah-UCF, Utah, too bad they are not in our bracket, love to smack them down one more time

Wed games
Cinn-ISU, ISU easy win
TCU-WVU, WVU wins
KSt-Baylor, Baylor wins
Utah-Kansas, Kansas is on a roll

Thursday games
ISU-BYU, gotta go BYU, dog fight
WVU-Houston, Houston easy
Baylor-TTU, TTU is clearly ready for a finals matchup.
AZ-Kansas, Az gets revenge.

Friday
BYU-Houston, BYU
TTU-Az, TTU

Sat
BYU-TTU, BYU is headed to the big dance with a 3 seed.

odds are, TTU-Houston play in the finals but then can BYU put together a complete game.

PS, here is why BYU could not jump over Az in the Seedings:
Texas Tech owns the tiebreaker over BYU due to a head-to-head matchup, and Arizona owns the tiebreaker over BYU despite a season split due to their win over Texas Tech. BYU can only be the 3 seed if Texas Tech loses to both Colorado at home Wednesday night and on the road at Arizona State Saturday.

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I’ll go with same as you except ASU beats KSU but loses
Gotta have BYU winning it all - but how do you beat Houston- crowd should be pro BYU so that’ll be the difference for a very narrow BYU win
Book it!

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KSU loses to Baylor

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Love it Fish! This is going to be fun.

First I want to say: “I’m a believer” (que The Monkees) This is BYU’s year.

Day 1:
12-Oklahoma State vs. 13-Cincinnati → CIN - They have too much talent to be this low
9-TCU vs. 16-Colorado → TCU - Colorado needs to find a Prime time for basketball
10-Kansas State vs. No. 15 Arizona State → ASU - I flipped a coin.
11-Utah vs. No. 14 UCF → UCF - Everyone on Utah is jumping in the portal. Season is over.

Day 2:
13-Cincinnati vs. 5-Iowa State → Iowa State - CIN isn’t that good
TCU vs. 8-West Virginia → TCU - by transitive property (which is garbage in basketball) TCU > BYU > WVU. TCU wins
ASU vs. 7-Baylor → Baylor, didn’t really matter which team won the coin toss.
UCF vs. 6-Kansas → Kansas

Day 3:
ISU vs. 4-BYU → BYU, BYU has < 15 turnovers and rebounds the ball. Win by 10.
TCU vs. 1-Houston → Houston by 20
Baylor vs. 2-Texas Tech → TTU - Close game
Kansas vs. 3-Arizona - Kansas - Love is 0-15

Day 4:
BYU vs Houston → BYU - revenge game and Im a believer
TTU vs Kansas → TTU - Kansas runs out of gas and talent

Day 5:
BYU vs TTU → BYU - Revenge game #2. I think BYU’s ceiling is a 5 seed in the tourney.

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If BYU can run the gauntlet of ISU, Houston, Tech they should be a 3 seed. Four at worst.

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Love the use of the self acknowledged garbage “transitive property”. Hey, why not???

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We are on the same page. I wake up to BYU on the 5 seed line. If we lose to ISU, I don’t think we drop at all, maybe one seed. ISU is ranked ahead of BYU
If BYU beats both ISU and Houston, then we would have to play (Assuming) TTU for the championship, I call a win vs. TTU and a 2 seed.

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already wrong about TCU-Colo.

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My bracket also took that hit. I wonder if it’s an omen for my March bracket.

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I’m heading to 1 out of 4 for day one
Ouch!

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I see that the Gonzaga Tournament once again won by Gonzaga. :rofl:

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Yikes, don’t sweat it, I am only 50%. I’m way more confident in Weds games but you all know that 1 of those 4 are going to stumble.

Wed games
Cinn-ISU, ISU easy win
TCU-WVU, WVU wins
KSt-Baylor, Baylor wins
Utah-Kansas, Kansas is on a roll
Could Cinn catch a ISU team struggling with putting points on the board. ?

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Ummm…Colorado beat TCU. Colorado is improving and won some games. Watch out. I’ll take Colorado over WVU. Cinci could surprise ISU. The winner will be whoever can overcome the gym floor. Worse than trying to shoot free throws in front of the Rock!

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What are you talking about?
Last I checked no gym floor is playing. Unlike refs the floor can have no bias overt nor covert.

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Look at fish original posts… that is what he is talking about, his original picks.

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:rofl::rofl::rofl: Have you watched even one game yet?

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Did not see Colorado winning two games.

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I picked Colorado based on their last 3 games. The light has turned on. Houston better be careful and not look past them.

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Last I checked no gym floor is playing. Unlike refs the floor can have no bias overt nor covert.

I like the B12 floor I was thinking it would look better with the BYU Cougar logos than the B12 gas company logos highlighting it though