All the gloom and grumpiness from Saturday’s loss at Kansas must be rechannelled. The drive for a Big 12 championship exists now as merely a mathematical possibility rather than a realistic one, but No. 21 West Virginia faces a very real fight Tuesday night.
Inside the Waco Ferrell Center looms the hottest team in the conference.
By winning five straight, Baylor (17-10, 7-7) resurrected its NCAA tournament ambitions and proved it could survive by varying methods. The latest episode turned up a gritty 59-57 upset of now-No. 6 Texas Tech.
“But that’s not enough,” said Bears point guard Manu Lecomte.