Well, no conference beats itself up like the Big 12 conference. I'm Pete Mundo, Heartland College

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Well, Matthew, I'm looking at the Big 12 right now.

And I'm only seeing nine NCAA tournament teams.

UCF effectively took itself out of the race it feels like this week with a bad

loss to West Virginia.

And then Wednesday night, you had a pretty big stunner, not really based on how the

Cowboys have been playing, but still a surprise with Cincinnati losing to Oklahoma

State, with Cincinnati consistently

being in Joe Lenardi's last four out. How do you see? Let's start with the Cincinnati team. They needed

this game on Saturday night and they just blew it. What happened? Yeah, they really did need it. I mean,

they played the way they normally play. It's a close game. They lose by single

digits. In fact, all of their conference losses are by single digits. So it's not like they've been

blown out of a game they've lost. I just kind of felt like, I think, I felt like Oklahoma State did

more to win that game than Cincinnati did to lose. It was the second strike game Oklahoma State had shot better than 50% from the floor.

The young guys that we've been kind of waiting to come along are finally starting to come

along.

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