Is Arizona the Big 12 Favorite? March Madness Outlook & Weekend Preview
Heartland College Sports: The Big 12 Sports Podcast
Pete Mundo
4.8 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Is Arizona the favorite to win the Big 12 regular season? Heartland College Sports’ Pete Mundo is joined by lead basketball writer Matthew Postins to break down the Big 12 title race, which teams are built for a deep March Madness run, who’s on the bubble, and previews of this weekend’s biggest games — including Kansas vs. Arizona and Texas Tech vs. Iowa State.
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| 0:00.0 | We are heading down the home stretch of the Big 12 basketball regular season. |
| 0:05.2 | And what a race it's turned into. |
| 0:07.4 | I'm Pete Mundo. |
| 0:08.2 | He is our lead, Big 12 basketball writer and columnist at Heartland College Sports. |
| 0:13.5 | Matthew Postins joining us on the show with just three games left in the Big 12 basketball regular season. Arizona's at the top, Matthew. |
| 0:23.2 | They've got a solid two game lead over Iowa State, Houston, Kansas, and Texas Tech. |
| 0:30.2 | Are we going to put the bow on this thing for Arizona, or are you leaving the door open to potentially somebody else slipping in the back door? |
| 0:42.3 | Well, I think you've got to leave the door open a little bit because of what Arizona has left. They've got Kansas coming up this weekend. They've got Iowa State coming up after that. |
| 0:48.3 | Both of those teams are two games back. So if Kansas and Iowa State can help each other out a little bit and beat Arizona, |
| 0:55.6 | then you've got potentially at least a three-way tie at the top in the conference. And then, |
| 1:01.5 | you know, thinking about tiebreakers and things like that, Kansas might, might end up with the |
| 1:07.7 | number one seed if they can went out. And Iowa State can help them out a little bit. |
| 1:11.8 | Iowa State's not exactly in a great mood to help Kansas out with anything. So, but it's, it's not, |
| 1:18.7 | it's not a done deal yet. It's close for Arizona, but it's not a done deal just yet. |
| 1:23.5 | I agree. Now, when you look at, you know, the way this past week played out, you had the big Monday game, KU just literally unbeatable on big Monday at home under Bill Self now 41 and O. KU, of course, or excuse me, Houston had lost two games in a row now. So what about this Houston team is concerning to you? For me, I mean, I pick |
| 1:46.0 | KU in this game because this does not feel like Houston's 20, 24, 25 team. They don't shoot |
| 1:53.1 | the three ball as well. We talked about, you know, L.J. Cryer being such a big loss for this team. |
| 1:57.7 | They still play great defense. They can hit the offensive glass, |
| 2:01.2 | but they just can't spread the court out. What do you think is missing from that team this year? |
| 2:05.4 | Well, I think they need to get healthy, and that's really hard to do this time of year. |
| 2:08.8 | Both Emmanuel Sharp and Milo Zuzon are dealing with what I think would be called minor injuries |
| 2:14.2 | at this point. I think Sharp has a hip issue per Kelvin Samson. So that's part of the |
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