5 Big 12 Basketball Storylines That Will Define February
Heartland College Sports: The Big 12 Sports Podcast
Pete Mundo
4.8 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Heartland College Sports’ Pete Mundo breaks down the five biggest storylines that will shape Big 12 basketball in the month of February, as the conference title race, NCAA Tournament seeding, and momentum toward March Madness all come into focus.
Which teams can separate from the pack?
Who has a chance to surge toward contender status?
And which programs face the most pressure over the next four weeks?
Plus, what February usually tells us about who’s actually built for a deep March run in the Big 12.
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| 0:00.0 | As we roll through February, I want to give you the top five stories in the Big 12 conference |
| 0:05.8 | to watch as we get set for the final full month of the regular season in college basketball. |
| 0:12.5 | I'm Pete Mundo. |
| 0:13.3 | We're Heartland College Sports, where we cover the Big 12 Conference. |
| 0:17.0 | And glad you're here as always joining us. |
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| 0:24.7 | So the biggest thing to watch in the final month of the regular season here in the Big 12 |
| 0:30.0 | is trying to figure out who separates themselves in this league. |
| 0:35.2 | Right now you have obviously Arizona sitting there at the top, followed by |
| 0:40.2 | Houston, Kansas, Iowa State, those four. And then after that, you've got UCF and Texas Tech |
| 0:46.1 | followed by BYU. But those top four are going to play each other a lot in the next couple of weeks. |
| 0:52.5 | It's really going to get good when you look at the Big 12 schedule in the next couple of weeks. It's really going to get good when you look at the |
| 0:55.1 | Big 12 schedule in the next couple of weeks or so. So you look at Saturday. And on Saturday, |
| 1:01.9 | you've got when you look at it, Houston taking on BYU. That's a very intriguing game for both |
| 1:09.7 | of those teams. For Houston staying in the Big 12 title hunt, and for BYU, it feels like in many ways, an elimination game. |
| 1:17.3 | You get to Big Monday, Arizona in Lawrence, Kansas taken on KU. |
| 1:22.9 | KU is one six straight. |
| 1:24.5 | They're in the thick of the Big 12 race. |
| 1:25.9 | If they win that game, that's a monster |
| 1:28.4 | momentum shift in the Big 12 regular season title hunt. Massive game on Monday. The midweek games, |
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