Patrick Marshall of Bluejay Basketball is the RTC correspondent for the Missouri Valley and Big 12 Conferences.

Current Records and my standings (Last Week):

1. Oklahoma (11-0) (1)
2. Baylor (9-1) (3)
3. Texas A&M (10-1) (5)
4. Texas (8-2) (2)
5. Missouri (9-1)  (4)
6. Kansas (8-2) (6)
7. Texas Tech (8-3) (7)
8. Kansas St. (8-3) (8)
9. Oklahoma St. (8-3) (11)
10. Nebraska (7-2) (9)
11. Iowa St. (7-3) (10)
12. Colorado (5-3) (12)

Most teams only played one game this week.  The holidays are a little slow for the Big 12 teams.  However what is starting to show is that this conference is wide open and it will be a  battle once conference play starts.  Oklahoma looks a little above the rest, but not much.

TEAM OF THE WEEK

Texas A&M (3-0 this week)—Texas A&M is starting to make me a believer, winning 3 more games this week to move to 10-1.  With some solid wins now over Arizona, Alabama, and an undefeated LSU team, this team is building itself quite a resume.    Things are definitely going their way as they almost got themselves in a position to lose the LSU game, but a controversial call late in the game led to an LSU technical and A&M sealed the win.  They should get a win over Sam Houston St. this week.

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