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Heartland College Sports: The Big 12 Sports Podcast

March Madness REACTION: Big 12 Gets 8 Teams In! | Bracket Breakdown

Heartland College Sports: The Big 12 Sports Podcast

Pete Mundo

Sports, Basketball, Football

4.8870 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Heartland College Sports' Pete Mundo and Matthew Postins react to the Big 12 Conference landing eight teams in the NCAA Tournament. Who got a favorable draw? Who is looking at a rough road to the Final Four?


We talk about all EIGHT Big 12 teams, and what their path looks like.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

March Madness is here.

0:01.9

We've got brackets to print out, brackets to fill out,

0:05.7

and we cannot wait to talk about it here at Heartland College Sports.

0:09.3

We cover the Big 12 conference.

0:10.8

We've got eight teams, of course, to react to after the bracket was revealed on Sunday night.

0:16.7

I'm Pete Mundo.

0:17.9

He's Matthew Postens, our lead Big 12 basketball columnist, and we're so glad that

0:22.3

you're here. If you're here for the first time, please hit the like button on the video and

0:25.7

subscribe as well. We're going to have so much content for you here on the channel and on the

0:30.2

podcast. Please drop us a five-star rating and review. It takes you 30 seconds. Well, Matthew,

0:37.1

we've got eight teams in. It's all what we

0:39.5

expected. No shocker there. So we'll get right to the bracket. When you look at this thing from a

0:44.4

big 12 perspective, what stands out to you right now? Well, I think what's interesting to me is that

0:51.0

Houston got a region by itself. I kind of expected maybe Arizona to get that

0:56.5

region by itself in terms of by itself from other big 12 teams just with them being the number

1:01.5

one seed. But the east ended up with three big 12 teams, the west where Arizona ended up

1:07.9

with two, the south, I'm sorry, the Midwest ended up with two, and then Houston

1:13.2

ended up in the South, and the only Big 12 team in that region. Of course, they've got a really

1:19.0

favorable road geographically speaking. They go to Oklahoma City for their first two games,

1:23.7

and then if they get to the Sweet 16, they're in Houston. So as much as I like

1:28.0

Arizona's draw geographically, Houston's in terrific shape. You're right about that. And I'm

1:34.5

looking at this thing too when we were trying to figure out where big 12 teams could end up meeting

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