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Soft at the top, bulging in the middle: Big 12’s challenge entering the NCAA Tournament

The Big 12 Conference has often been the darling of computers and forgotten in March, and those facts will be tested double now.

For the second time in its 23-year history, the Big 12 will not have a No. 1 or No. 2 seed when the NCAA Tournament bracket is revealed on Sunday. The league might not have a No. 3 seed, either.

Either way, it will be the worst group of Big 12 seeds since 1999 — a year before Kansas freshman Ochai Agbaji was born.

Even so, the computers love the Big 12. Kansas has the nation’s No.