After a week off from conference play, Big 12 action heats up again for the No. 12 Texas Longhorns, as head coach David Pierce’s team makes the short trip to Waco to face the Baylor Bears riding a four-game winning streak against the conference rival.
At 5-1 in conference and 21-7 overall, Baylor is off to a strong start in the Big 12 and also boasts a 17-3 record at the creatively-named Baylor Ballpark. Get it? It’s a ballpark and Baylor plays there. Good stuff.
The question facing the Bears is whether Baylor is actually going to emerge as a conference contender or fall back into the middle of the pack due to its weak early schedule — the five wins have come over West Virginia and Kansas, two of the three worst teams in the Big 12.