Big 12 Basketball’s Best, Bubble Teams & Biggest Disappointments
Heartland College Sports: The Big 12 Sports Podcast
Pete Mundo
4.8 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Heartland College Sports’ Pete Mundo is joined by HCS basketball columnist Matthew Postins to break down the Big 12 landscape entering the final month of the regular season. Who’s the best team in the conference right now? Which programs are on the NCAA Tournament bubble? And which teams have been the biggest disappointments so far?
We discuss Big 12 contenders, bubble teams, underachievers, and what to watch as March approaches.
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| 0:00.0 | We are in the month of February for Big 12 basketball, and we are talking about it with our lead basketball columnist at Heartland College Sports. |
| 0:08.0 | Matthew Postins is here. I'm Pete Mundo on Heartland College Sports. |
| 0:12.3 | Make sure that you like the video. You are subscribed to the channel because before you know it, we are going to be in March, madness. |
| 0:19.7 | And Matthew, let's start there. |
| 0:21.8 | We're about five weeks away from the Big 12 tournament, six weeks away from March |
| 0:26.3 | madness. |
| 0:27.4 | The season's flying by and the Big 12 when you look at the schedule, and we talked about |
| 0:32.0 | this like weeks ago, it's backloaded with these top teams playing each other these next |
| 0:36.9 | two, three weeks. |
| 0:37.8 | It's going to be wild. |
| 0:39.1 | How are you feeling about it? |
| 0:40.9 | I'm ready to go. |
| 0:43.4 | Let's do it now. |
| 0:44.7 | Let's get Arizona off their by week and get them a good game because they've passed their first couple tests in a conference play. |
| 0:52.9 | They're still undefeated. |
| 0:53.9 | They're still, in my opinion, |
| 0:54.9 | the best team in the country. And I think they had every opportunity to prove that the next few |
| 0:59.4 | weeks. Well, let's look at that Arizona schedule. It is as tough a stretch as you will see in all |
| 1:04.1 | of college basketball. Starting on Monday, big Monday in Lawrence, home next weekend to Texas |
| 1:09.7 | Tech, home to BYU the following week and then |
| 1:13.3 | you've got at Houston that following Saturday two o'clock game on ABC I was intrigued by that |
| 1:19.3 | I feel like that's kind of an NBA time slot but it also tells you what Disney ABC ESPN thinks |
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