The Big 12 may be the only conference in America where you can expect football games and basketball games to result in the same scores.
For all its offensive prowess in football, the opposite is true of Big 12 basketball. According to kenpom.com, the league ranks 31st out of 32 nationally in offensive tempo, 32nd in offensive efficiency and 32nd in effective field goal percentage.
The first 20 games on the Big 12 slate haven’t been particularly interesting, either. In the very early stages of conference play, the SWAC and Ivy League the the only two conferences with fewer games decided by five points or less — and there have only been two Ivy games played thus far.