This is the time of year when it’s traditional to tell Big 12 basketball to put up or shut up. The conference usually gets a batch of invitations to the NCAA Tournament, then fails to deliver once the ballgames begin.
The Big 12 placed two teams in the Final Four in back-to-back seasons – OU and Kansas in 2002, Texas and Kansas in 2003 – followed by OSU in the 2004 Final Four. That’s five Big 12 teams and four Big 12 schools in the Final Four over a three-year period.
But since then, only three Big 12 teams have made the Final Four – Kansas in 2008 and 2012, OU in 2016.