Predicting the 2016-17 Big 12 College Basketball Standings

Posted by Kerry Miller on July-31-2016 Add Comments

This can hardly be considered news in the world of college basketball, but the Kansas Jayhawks are our overwhelming favorite to win the Big 12's 2016-17 regular-season title. It would be their 13th title in a row.

Their prolonged dominance is unrivaled in any other male sport since UCLA during the John Wooden era. (But the streak doesn't even hold a candle to what Connecticut has done in women's college hoops for more than two decades.)

The Atlanta Braves won 11 straight NL East titles from 1995-2005, and the New England Patriots have won the AFC East in 12 of the past 13 years. But 12 in a row? In a sport where your entire roster turns over once every four years—if you're lucky? That's just silly, and it should ...

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