No. 1 Kansas lost at Arizona State on Saturday and No. 12 Texas Tech lost in midweek in a close game with No. 2 Duke. With that, the Sooners jumped to the front of the class, if only temporarily, at 11-1.
Not to be a glass-half-empty grinch type at this most festive time of year, but Oklahoma’s reward for climbing to the top of the Big 12 standings is an expense paid trip to Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence, Kansas, one of the meccas of college basketball, the second day of the new year and a daunting date with what is certain to be an angry Kansas Jayhawk squad.