Big 12 Basketball Tournament Preview, Breakdown and Prediction
Heartland College Sports: The Big 12 Sports Podcast
Pete Mundo
4.8 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
It's Big 12 Tournament week in Kansas City and Pete Mundo and Matthew Postins break down the full bracket, the easy and hard paths, the bubble discussions, along with two predictions for the tournament and the future of the event in Kansas City!
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| 0:00.0 | It's Big 12 tournament week. He's Matthew Postens. I'm Pete Mundo. We are Heartland College Sports, |
| 0:06.0 | of course, covering the Big 12 conference. And we appreciate you being here. It is, I guess, |
| 0:11.2 | the unofficial start to March Madness. The official start will be next week when the NCAA tournament |
| 0:17.3 | gets underway. If you're new here, just check that you are subscribed to the channel and also on the podcast as well. But we've got a full Big 12 tournament preview for you right here on the show. All right, Matthew, the bracket came out, of course, after the games wrapped up on Saturday night. When you looked at the bracket, was there a big takeaway that you had as we get set for Kansas City this |
| 0:38.7 | week? I think the big takeaway for me was just, you know, we talk, we've talked all season |
| 0:43.7 | about how there's going to be like at least one really good team left in that single buy group |
| 0:49.0 | and that team ended up being Iowa State. A month ago when we were talking about it, we thought |
| 0:53.4 | it might actually be Kansas because of the way they were playing at that point. Darren Peterson wasn't as available, has he's been the past couple of weeks. That stuck out to me. The other thing that really stuck out to me was just, you know, seeing BYU where they are, being in 10 seed, playing in the first day. When we thought for a while while there they might get a double buy and obviously |
| 1:11.4 | their season took a big turn losing richie saunders um but now it's interesting because that |
| 1:18.3 | texas tech win maybe gives them a little bit of momentum going into the tournament maybe they can |
| 1:23.4 | maybe they can wreck some dreams over the next few days you You know, you bring up some excellent points, as always. |
| 1:30.0 | And think about this. |
| 1:31.0 | Iowa State was like the number five team in the country a couple of weeks ago. |
| 1:34.6 | Now they're the number five seed in the Big 12 tournament. |
| 1:37.5 | It tells you how good this conference is. |
| 1:41.2 | Well, exactly. |
| 1:42.2 | And I feel like the last, you know, three games, there wasn't a lot of juice because |
| 1:46.4 | we all knew Arizona was going to be the one seed. |
| 1:49.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:49.3 | But these seeds really three through five, KU, Texas Tech and Iowa State, these things were |
| 1:57.1 | flip-flopping all over the place over the last literally week of the regular season. |
| 2:01.6 | I mean, Iowa State thought it could be a three. |
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