On Friday, The Athletic released the way-too-early Big 12 basketball rankings for the 2019-20 season, in which the author once again predicts that the conference will rank No. 1 nationally in KenPom.com’s adjusted efficiency metric for a seventh consecutive year.
There are still plenty of moving parts for quite a few teams — NBA Draft declarations who could return to school, high school or junior college prospects still left on the recruiting boards, and, of course, graduate transfers who could change the course of projections for programs like Kansas or Texas Tech.
In the estimation of writer CJ Moore, Baylor has a chance to take over as the league’s top team, as assertion that is difficult to find much fault with given that the Bears add two transfers and return a lot of production, including Tristan Clark, who only played in 14 games last season due to injury.