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Here's some fun stats: Colorado goes 4-18 from the free throw line and commits 17 turnovers to only 6 assists and Baylor still loses.

Well, this is pretty sad. Royce White talking about quitting. I guess this will make other teams pretty reluctant to draft uber-talented guys with anxiety disorders.

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/8640395/houston-rockets-royce-white-ready-walk-away-nba

Watching an interesting feed of the OU-UT Arlington game on a stream. Just a camera view with crowd and arena announcer.

53-50 OU right now. OU having a hard time against the press. A little under 6 minutes according to game tracker.

No games today. Alas.

It is very early, of course, but right now the Big 12 is not looking good in power ratings, being just 2-2 against power conference opponents (losses to Colorado and Michigan State, wins over BC and Tennessee) and having that ugly loss by WVU to Gonzaga. It doesn't help that the losses are by the teams figuring to be at the top of the conference.

Five games on Sunday. Biggest game will be OSU vs. NC State at 5:30. NC State is top ten and looks it, having beating Miami O, Penn State, and UMass by an average margin of 24, not that any of those teams are going to threaten the top 25. Gottfried is already at 7 man rotation for the team, so it could falter with an injury to a key player or just wear down, but Howell and Leslie's propensity to get into foul trouble might be the only thing preventing it from winning the ACC this year. Offense is clicking -- 88 ppg, 56% fg shooting, 45% 3pt shooting, 17/13 a/t ratio. Only blemish is 62% ft shooting. Leading scorer is Warren.

OSU has now lost Soucek to a knee injury. No word on when he or Olukemi might be coming back. Cobbins still on track for a return in about 3 weeks.

http://newsok.com/oklahoma-state-basketball-injury-report-worsens/article/3729251?custom_click=pod_headline_osu-cowboys#axzz2CV6GyTZz

Baylor vs. St. John's in a consolation game at the Charleston Classic at 5. St. John's looks mediocre, barely beating Detroit in its opener, then blowing a game late to a good but not nearly as good as last year Murray State, and being very thin on the front line until either Orlando Sanchez is cleared or they decide to reconsider a decision to redshirt God's Gift Achiuwa.

ISU hosts the Campbell Fighting Camels at 6. This will allow us a first look at the complete ISU team since Babb will now be available. ISU has been playing very, very well, but it has been up against schmucks, so it's hard to gauge exactly how good it is. We'll know in a couple of weeks after it plays Cincinnati and BYU.

TCU vs. Prairie View A&M at 3 in the South Padre Invitational. A good game for comparison shopping purposes. PVAM is a fairly known commodity already--10 point loser to Tech and 22 point loser to the nut squeezing weirdos.

K-State hosts North Florida at 1. See comment about ISU's play and level of opponents. North Florida may have lost to top 20 Memphis by only 15, but it was down 32 in the second half before coming back against the bench. Maybe the most telling thing about North Florida is that it's leading rebounder is its least prolific scorer.

Get this: 5'11" PG Will Wilson, who is good for 7.7 assists per game, but has shot only 1/7 in 94 minutes in 3 games and managed only 4ft attempts. He leads No. Fla. with 4.3 rpg, and scores only 1.7 ppg. I don't know if I can even imagine that. It's like taking Balbay and having him drink a dose of eversomuchmoreso, except Wilson doesn't have any blocks and doesn't get many steals.

We'll know about KSU after it plays Gonzaga in mid-December.

And Murray State is racking some nice non-conference W's

This isn't Big 12 news, but it pushes the outliers of the term bizarre and is related to Texas basketball.

Texas's last opponent played a most interesting game a few hours ago. It lost to Florida Atlantic 64-61. It trailed 33-8 at the half. That's right. It scored 8 points in the first half and 53 in the second half.

http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/boxscore?gameId=323222226

KSU coasted to a 74-55 win in a game in which no one scored after a free throw was made with 3:02 left. 52-28 rebounding advantage pretty much explains it all, though Rodriguez and Spradling couldn't make a thing.

TCU got off to a horrible start. 1/8 shooting in the first few minutes to fall behind 14-4. It's turnover city. The two teams have combined for 14 turnovers in the first 12 minutes. 14-9 PVAM with 7:43 left in the first half.

And there is why Baylor is so dangerous. Ball inside to Austin for two, secured defensive rebound, to Heslip for a three, secured rebound, Heslip for another three plus a free throw, Jackson steal for a breakaway with Austin flushing the offensive rebound, then another Jackson steal for a breakaway and he's at the line to shoot two. 11-0 run plus two free throws coming in just one minute.

Smart started getting steals for breakaways. OSU winning on the boards. NC State looking lazy on perimeter passes. 38-28 OSU at the half. Leslie with 3 fouls. Smart with 18 points.

Now Gerry, you know better than to underestimate Smartacus!!

St John's went ridiculously slopped down the stretch. Baylor up 95-77 with less than a minute left.

NC State trying to make a little comeback. Down 11 with 12:12 left.

ISU is winning comfortably, but not overly impressively. 79-66 right now with 3:03 to go. Some hiccups are to be expected after re-integrating Babb into the offense. Looks like Long is the guy to lose the most PT because of it.