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REAL STANDINGS: The “Is it?” “Yes, it is,” Edition

posted by Mark on 1/31/2010 -

Stick a fork in it. The Big 12 race is done.

Or, to paraphrase`Billy Packer, “This season is OVAH.”

Barring something bizarre occurring, Kansas has a stranglehold on at least a share of its sixth consecutive Big 12 conference championship.

Unless you have been in a coma, you are aware that there was Major movement in the REAL Standings on Saturday. Two contenders lost at Home: one of them (K-State) to another (KU). The other (Texas) to a second tier team (Baylor).

As a result, K-State and Texas can no longer win the Big 12 championship. KU will have to lose it. Even the Jayhawks’ game in Austin is irrelevant for big 12 title purposes as long as KU takes care of business elsewhere. UT could prevail at Home on February 8, but still trail the Jayhawks by two games in the REAL Standings: one game in the Newspaper Standings (2 current losses to 1) and another by virtue of having six at-risk games remaining on its schedule, as opposed to KU’s four.

The other four Saturday games resulted in no movement among the Tier Two teams, as the Home teams (Mizzou, Iowa St, Nebraska, and Texas A&M) all picked up their Projected W’s (vs. Okie St, Colorado, OU, and Tech).

WEEKEND UPDATE

1. Contenders: KU, K-State, and UT.

2. Competitors: Everyone else.

3. Bottom-feeders: None.

The January 28, 2010 REAL Big 12 Standings:

1. 13-3

KU (5-0) Projected L’s: at UT
Losable games: at CU, at A&M, at Okie St, at Mizzou

2. 11-5

UT (4-2) Projected L’s: None
Losable games: at OSU, at OU, at Mizzou, at Tech, at A&M, at BU
3. 10-6

K-State (4-3) Projected L’s: at KU
Losable games: at NU, at ISU, at OU, at Tech

4. 8-8

Mizzou (4-2) Projected L’s: at CU, at BU, at NU, at K-State, at ISU
Losable games: vs. UT, vs. KU

Okie St (4-3) Projected L’s: at Tech, at Iowa St, at UT, at A&M
Losable games: vs. UT, vs. KU

6. 7.5-8.5

Baylor (3-3) Projected L’s: at A&M, at NU, at OSU, at OU, at Tech
Losable games: vs. UT

7. 7-9

Oklahoma (3-4) Projected L’s: at OSU, at CU, at KU, at UT
Losable games: vs. UT, vs. K-State

Texas A&M (4-3) Projected L’s: at Mizzou, at Tech, at ISU, at BU, at OU
Losable games: vs. KU, vs. UT

9. 6.5-9.5

Colorado (2-5) Projected L’s: at K-State, at KU, at Mizzou, at NU
Losable games: vs. KU

Iowa St (2-4) Projected L’s: at BU, at Mizzou, at KU, at CU, at K-State
Losable games: vs. K-State

11. 6-10

Texas Tech (2-5) Projected L’s: at OU, at BU, at NU, at CU
Losable games: vs. UT, vs. K-State

12. 5.5-10.5

Nebraska (1-5) Projected L’s: at KU, at UT, at K-State, at ISU, at OSU
Losable games: vs. K-State

What to Watch

MONDAY

1. Texas at Okie St (8:00p.m.)***1/2 (At-risk game for both teams)

UT has lost 3 out of 4 and is fortunate that it is not 4 of 5. If they intend to make a run for second place in conference, or even dream that KU will stumble enough to open up a path to a share of the league championship, they must become more than the James Gang—and they must start Monday night.

TUESDAY

2. k-state at Nebraska (7:00p.m.)*** (at-risk game for both teams)

Nebraska is off the schneid. The big question is whether k-state can put Saturday behind them as they hit the Road, or will they have a repeat of their post UT letdown? They will probably come ready to play. It is well-known that redemption is a more powerful motivator than validation.

WEDNESDAY

2. Iowa St at Baylor (6:30p.m.)*1/2 (Projected W: Baylor)

How does Baylor suck? Let me count the ways. Two men under the basket, no defenders in the vicinity—and they fumble the ball away without even getting a shot off—not a layup, not a dunk, not nothing. They miss four straight FT’s late in regulation with the game on the line. Their best player gets a defensive rebound, then throws a vicious elbow, costing his team possession of the ball and his services for the remainder of the game, being his fifth foul. Down one point in OT, and the ball under their own basket, they throw an inbounds pass into the backcourt where it gets stolen. Ekpe Udoh, their prized transfer from Michigan, goes 0-11 from the field in regulation. They possess a 6 point lead with under a minute remaining in OT—and proceed to commit 2 brain dead turnovers.

Yet, somehow, they win the game against the No. 6 team in the country on the Road.

They are, indeed, a dangerous team. Especially when they pay attention.

The only question here is whether Iowa St will have their attention.

4. KU at Colorado (7:00p.m.)*** (at-risk game for both teams)

Perhaps the most dangerous game remaining on the Jayhawks’ schedule. Colorado frequently (though not always) plays the Hawks tough in Boulder, they are better than usual, and how can KU have anything left in their emotional tank after Saturday night? Tune in and see.

5. Texas A&M at Mizzou (8:00p.m.)*** (Projected W: Mizzou)

This one might REALly be the fastest forty minutes in basketball. Take the Over.

–Mark

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REAL Standings: Hawktagon of Doom Edition

posted by Mark on 1/29/2010 -

The only movement in the REAL Big 12 Standings in the Midweek games was from K-State and Baylor, with K-State picking up .5 games in an at-risk contest in Waco. With that achievement, K-State is now -.5 in its last three games: i.e., beating Texas at Home in a zero sum game; losing a full game at Home by falling to Okie St; and now making up half that lost game at Baylor.

Which is the beauty of the REAL Standings. The uninitiated will look at K-State’s last three games and say, “2-1 with a win over the No. 1 ranked team and a win over another Top 25 team on the Road. Pretty damn good.”

Those who know better REALize that these three games have been a net loss in the REAL world, not only to KU (3-0 over the same span and +.5 in the REAL Standings ), but even to Texas, the No. 1 ranked team they vanquished, which is 1-1 over the same stretch with no REAL movement.

In other action, it was win, win, win for the Home team: KU, Okie St, UT, OU, and Colorado over Mizzou, A&M, Tech, Iowa St, and Nebraska.

MIDWEEK UPDATE

1. Contenders: KU, K-State, and UT.

2. Competitors: Everyone else.

3. Bottom-feeders: None.

The January 28, 2010 REAL Big 12 Standings:

1. 12-4

KU (5-0) Projected L’s: at K-State, at UT
Losable games: at CU, at A&M, at Okie St, at Mizzou

UT (4-1) Projected L’s: None
Losable games: at OSU, at OU, at Mizzou, at Tech, at A&M, at BU

3. 11-5

K-State (4-2) Projected L’s: at KU
Losable games: at NU, at ISU, at OU, at Tech

4. 8-8

Mizzou (3-2) Projected L’s: at CU, at BU, at NU, at K-State, at ISU
Losable games: vs. UT, vs. KU

Okie St (4-2) Projected L’s: at Mizzou, at Tech, at Iowa St, at UT, at A&M
Losable games: vs. UT, vs. KU

6. 7-9

Oklahoma (3-3) Projected L’s: at NU, at OSU, at CU, at KU, at UT
Losable games: vs. UT, vs. K-State

Texas A&M (3-3) Projected L’s: at Mizzou, at Tech, at ISU, at BU, at OU
Losable games: vs. KU, vs. UT

9. 6.5-9.5

Baylor (2-3) Projected L’s: at UT, at A&M, at NU, at OSU, at OU, at Tech
Losable games: vs. UT

Colorado (2-4) Projected L’s: at ISU, at K-State, at KU, at Mizzou, at NU
Losable games: vs. KU

Iowa St (1-4) Projected L’s: at BU, at Mizzou, at KU, at CU, at K-State
Losable games: vs. K-State

11. 6-10

Texas Tech (2-4) Projected L’s: at A&M, at OU, at BU, at NU, at CU
Losable games: vs. UT, vs. K-State

12. 5.5-10.5

Nebraska (0-5) Projected L’s: at KU, at UT, at K-State, at ISU, at OSU
Losable games: vs. K-State

What to Watch

SATURDAY

1. Oklahoma at Nebraska (12:30p.m.)**1/2 (Projected W: NU)

Tommy Mason-Griffin gets my vote for Big 12 freshman of the year. He might outscore Nebraska by himself. Willie Who?

2. Okie St at Mizzou (1:00p.m.)*** (Projected W: Mizzou)

Okie St tries for its second straight Saturday upset along I-70.

3. Baylor at Texas (3:00p.m.)*** (Projected W: UT)

Which Baylor team shows up: the one that is worth the price of admission, as in its loss in Lawrence, or the one that sucked out loud Tuesday night in its loss to K-State in Waco?

4. KU at K-State (6:00p.m.)********** (Projected W: K-State)

UT at K-State was a five star game on a four star scale. Make this a 10 Star Special. Biggest game in this rivalry since ’88 in Detroit.

5. Colorado at Iowa St (8:00p.m.)** (Projected W: ISU)

Hilton Magic? It will take some kind of magic to keep the patrons awake for 40 minutes. . .

6. Texas Tech at Texas A&M (8:00p.m.)** (Projected W: A&M)

Tech looked as good as it has all year for 30 minutes Wednesday night in Austin. They need to hope they didn’t waste all their good shots at the driving range, but saved some of them for a game they actually have a chance to win.

–Mark

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REAL Standings: All Fame is Fleeting

posted by Mark on 1/24/2010 -

As noted in the previous REAL Standings post, Okie St was a “Dangerous, dangerous game for K-State.” They were to Okie St what UT was Monday night to K-State. They ran into a good, but not great, team that played with unmatched intensely for 40 minutes and paid the price.

But that’s the name of the game when you ascend to top of the media’s hype machine. Every opponent will match or exceed your effort—especially when you are coming down from a victory being hailed by your fans and the media as historic. (Although correctly characterized in the REAL Standings as a BfD win at Home.)

What this game showed—if there was any doubt—is that there is still a considerable talent differential between UT, KU and the rest of the conference. And talent will out in games like Saturday’s in Manhattan. The two big guns in the conference win that game at Home. Might have been close, but they win it.

The bottom line, though, is that K-State committed the cardinal REAL Standings sin: they lost at Home. Will they be able to recover? Probably not. If they were loaded with first round NBA talent, maybe they could win out, including at AFH-Lawrence. But, again, they do not possess the level of talent necessary to make that run.

But that is a subjective judgment. Objectively, talent assessment aside, can they overcome the Home Loss and, using the REAL Standings formula, yet be a factor in the race for the title?

Again, probably not. They are now 1.5 REAL Standings games behind both UT and KU. Not only is 1.5 games difficult to make up in the REAL world, it is exponentially more difficult to make up against two teams. Even winning out, including at AFH-L, leaves K-State trailing the winner of the February 8 game in Austin by 1/2 game. Meaning they would still be in need of outside help.

In other words, a long shot.

In the other major REAL Standings development of the weekend, the Jayhawks picked up a W in an at-risk game at Ames, which never seemed to be at risk at all. As a result, KU is now tied with UT atop the REAL Standings, 1.5 games clear of K-State.

In other action, Tech, A&M and Mizzou all picked up Home wins, as projected, vs. OU, CU, and NU. Nothing of REAL import there.

WEEKEND UPDATE

1. Contenders: KU, K-State, and UT.

2. Competitors: Everyone else.

3. Bottom-feeders: None.

The January 24, 2010 REAL Big 12 Standings:

The only subjective part of the REAL Standings is the placement of teams into their proper categories. While it appears there are no teams deserving of the pejorative term “bottom-feeders,” it does look like there are two tiers of competitive teams. If I were to recategorize the teams at this point, I would place K-State, Mizzou, Baylor, A&M, Okie St, and OU in Tier 2(a), and Tech, Iowa St, Colorado, and NU in Tier 2(b). And that might happen at some point—like the midway point of the conference season. Doing so would remove K-State from KU’s Projected Loss column and drop Colorado as a Losable game; for UT, the only effect would be dropping Tech from the Losable game column. Were these adjustments made now, KU would have a Projected Record of 13-3, ½ game in front of UT.

At this point, however, Colorado and Tech on the Road still look like at-risk games to me.

1. 12-4

KU (4-0) Projected L’s: at K-State, at UT
Losable games: at CU, at A&M, at Okie St, at Mizzou

UT (3-1) Projected L’s: None
Losable games: at OSU, at OU, at Mizzou, at Tech, at A&M, at BU

3. 10.5-5.5

K-State (3-2) Projected L’s: at KU
Losable games: at BU, at NU, at ISU, at OU, at Tech

4. 8-8

Mizzou (3-1) Projected L’s: at KU, at CU, at BU, at NU, at K-State, at ISU
Losable games: vs. UT, vs. KU

Okie St (3-2) Projected L’s: at Mizzou, at Tech, at Iowa St, at UT, at A&M
Losable games: vs. UT, vs. KU

6. 7-9

Baylor (2-2) Projected L’s: at UT, at A&M, at NU, at OSU, at OU, at Tech
Losable games: vs. KU, vs. UT

Oklahoma (2-3) Projected L’s: at NU, at OSU, at CU, at KU, at UT
Losable games: vs. UT, vs. K-State

Texas A&M (3-2) Projected L’s: at Okie St, at Mizzou, at Tech, at ISU, at BU, at OU
Losable games: vs. KU, vs. UT

9. 6.5-9.5

Colorado (1-4) Projected L’s: at ISU, at K-State, at KU, at Mizzou, at NU
Losable games: vs. KU

Iowa St (1-3) Projected L’s: at OU, at BU, at Mizzou, at KU, at CU, at K-State
Losable games: vs. K-State

11. 6-10

Texas Tech (2-3) Projected L’s: at UT, at A&M, at OU, at BU, at NU, at CU
Losable games: vs. UT, vs. K-State

12. 5.5-10.5

Nebraska (0-4) Projected L’s: at CU, at KU, at UT, at K-State, at ISU, at OSU
Losable games: vs. K-State

WHAT TO WATCH

MONDAY

1. Mizzou at KU (8:00p.m.)**** (Projected W: KU)

Don’t look now, but Mizzou is perfectly positioned to not only stake its claim as a contender, but to even take the inside track to the Big 12 title. If they somehow win in AFH Monday night, they would move into the Contender category and have no Projected losses, because they get both KU and UT at Home later in the year. Their five remaining Road games would all be Losable, not projected L’s, for a Projected Record of 12.5-3.5, a full 1.5 games ahead of KU and ½ game in front of UT. Meaning the Hawks would go from Projected co-champions to being on life support in 40 minutes. So forget February 8 for now. This is the game.

TUESDAY

2. K-State at Baylor (7:00p.m.)***1/2 (At risk game for both teams)

K-State would have been better off switching the dates of this game and the one vs. Okie St. A loss on the Road at least gets a Road game off the schedule. Then, they could have recharged and been a bit more ready for the Cowboys at Home.

This game will come down to three point shooting, rebounding, and the Home Court. Baylor appears to have the advantage in all three areas. K-State can do nothing about one of them. They will need to win the other two, one of them convincingly, to walk out of Waco upright.

WEDNESDAY

3. Texas A&M at Okie St (6:30p.m.)***1/2 (Projected W: Okie St)

Tag. You’re it, Cowboys.

4. Texas Tech at Texas (8:00p.m.)**1/2 (Projected W: UT)

Fuhgeddaboutit! Given a choice between betting on Mike Leach coaching in Lubbock again or Tech winning this game, I will go with Leach. The only thing mildly interesting about this contest will be the point spread. I would take no fewer than 15 points. Might even pass on that. . .

5. Iowa St at Oklahoma (8:00p.m.)** (Projected W: OU)

Who has been more sensational this week: Lacedarius Dunn, James Anderson, or Tommy Mason-Griffin? I would watch this game just to see if M-G can duplicate his effort against Tech with Willie Warren back in the lineup. If so, OU may yet be a force to be reckoned with. . .

6. Nebraska at Colorado (8:00p.m.)** (Projected W: Colorado)

Not quite a “bottom-feeder” game, but as close as you will find in the Big 12 this year.

–Mark

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REAL Standings: No REAL news. . .

posted by Mark on 1/21/2010 -

Yes, there has been a great deal of hyperbole and euphoria over a certain team’s victory on Monday night. But that is by those who don’t know any better: Including the talking heads who purport to understand sports. Who purport to understand college basketball. Who purport to understand Big 12 basketball.

Those who know better REALize that Monday night’s game was sound (a lot of sound) and fury (a lot of fury), but what it signified was—Nothing. A lot of nothing.

Repeat after me, Jason and Jason and Blair, et al.: Championships are won on the Road. They can be lost at Home. But they are never won at Home. They are won on the Road.

With that in mind, nothing of substance happened in the Big 12 in the five midweek games.

Zero. Zip. Nada.

Nothing.

K-State, A&M, Texas Tech, Okie St, and KU all won at Home. Big freakin’ Deal.

Texas, OU, Iowa St, Colorado, and Baylor all lost on the Road. Again, BfD.

MIDWEEK UPDATE

1. Contenders: KU, K-State, and UT.

2. Competitors: Everyone else.

3. Bottom-feeders: None.

The January 10, 2010 REAL Big 12 Standings:

1. 12-4

UT (3-1) Projected L’s: None

Losable games: at OSU, at OU, at Mizzou, at Tech, at A&M, at BU

2. 11.5-4.5

KU (3-0) Projected L’s: at K-State, at UT

Losable games: at ISU, at CU, at A&M, at Okie St, at Mizzou

K-State (3-1) Projected L’s: at KU

Losable games: at BU, at NU, at ISU, at OU, at Tech

4. 8-8

Mizzou (2-1) Projected L’s: at KU, at CU, at BU, at NU, at K-State, at ISU

Losable games: vs. UT, vs. KU

5. 7-9

Baylor (2-2) Projected L’s: at UT, at A&M, at NU, at OSU, at OU, at Tech

Losable games: vs. KU, vs. UT

Iowa St (1-2) Projected L’s: at OU, at BU, at Mizzou, at KU, at CU, at K-State

Losable games: vs. KU, vs. k-state

Oklahoma (2-1) Projected L’s: at A&M, at Tech, at NU, at OSU, at CU, at KU, at UT

Losable games: vs. UT, vs. K-State

Okie St (2-2) Projected L’s: at K-State, at Mizzou, at Tech, at Iowa St, at UT, at A&M

Losable games: vs. UT, vs. KU

Texas A&M (1-2) Projected L’s: at Okie St, at Mizzou, at Tech, at ISU, at BU, at OU

Losable games: vs. KU, vs. UT

10. 6.5-9.5

Colorado (1-3) Projected L’s: at A&M, at ISU, at K-State, at KU, at Mizzou, at NU

Losable games: vs. KU

11. 6-10

Texas Tech (1-3) Projected L’s: at UT, at A&M, at OU, at BU, at NU, at CU

Losable games: vs. UT, vs. K-State

12. 5.5-10.5

Nebraska (0-3) Projected L’s: at Mizzou, at CU, at KU, at UT, at K-State, at ISU, at OSU

Losable games: vs. K-State

What to Watch

SATURDAY

1. Colorado at A&M (12:30p.m.)**1/2 (Projected W: A&M)

Colorado still looking for the elusive conference Road W. A game A&M can scarcely afford to lose and stay firmly in the mix for one of the Big 12’s numerous at-large bids in March.

2. KU at Iowa St (1:00p.m.) ***1/2 (At risk game for both teams)

Everyone knows about Hilton Magic and how even Danny couldn’t win there. Right? The Hawks have recently won there a lot. Still a dangerous place—even if Staiger has left the building. And the country. Auf Wiedersehn, Lucca.

3. Texas at UConn (3:00p.m.) ****

Is the Saturday after UT’s first loss the best time for UConn to catch them? Or the worst? One thing’s for sure: The crowd won’t faze UT. They have now been there, done that.

4. UMass at Baylor (3:00p.m.) ***

Can Baylor maintain the level of play the Bears displayed in Lawrence? If so, it will be a long night for the Massachussetsans, and an entertaining one for the fans in Waco.

5. Okie St at K-State (3:00p.m.) ***

Dangerous, dangerous game for K-State. If they are still basking in the glory of winning a game they were expected to win, Okie St could sneak up on them. K-State now joins the ranks of the hunted. It will be a little more difficult henceforth to win games by simply out-working the opponent—no matter how hard Frank Martin tries to burn through their competitive souls with his heat vision.

As George C. Scott once warned: “A slave stood behind the conqueror holding a golden crown and whispering in his ear a warning: that all glory is fleeting.” We’ll see if this glory fleets in five days, or if k-state caught a break by being able to gradually come back to earth in the comfort and security of Home.

6. Nebraska at Mizzou (5:00p.m.) **1/2

Mizzou tries to stay within 22 games of the Jayhawks.

7. Oklahoma at Texas Tech (7:00p.m.) **1/2

What can you say about this game? Other than, “There’s the computer lab, where Adam James used to bench press servers in the dark”?

–Mark

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Return of the REAL Standings UT, k-state Teams to Beat in 2010

posted by Mark on -

Sorry for the inconvenience, but the REAL Standings have been on the blink due to technical difficulties.

To set the table for those unfamiliar with the REAL Standings concept, here is the pre-season 2010 version:

For REAL Standings newbies, they not intended to be predictive in nature, although it sometimes works out that way. Last year, for example, when the national consensus was that KU would have trouble hanging with UT and OU, the pre-season REAL Standings projected KU and Oklahoma to finish in a flat-footed tie at 12.5-3.5, both ahead of UT by a full game. You remember, of course, how that turned out.

What the REAL Standings does is indicate which team or teams are in the most advantageous position to win the conference championship without regard to their current record as shown in the newspaper or on your web page. It assesses where teams truly stand in relation to each other, taking into account who they have played and where and who and where they have yet to play. This is especially helpful in an unbalanced schedule setup, as most conferences—including the Big 12–now have, as opposed to the days when every Big 8 or SWC team played an identical schedule consisting of home and away games with every other conference opponent.

The premise of the REAL Standings is that championships are won by:

1. Winning EVERY game that a champion should win: i.e., all Home games and all games against the league’s bottom-feeders; and

2. Winning the most losable games—i.e., Road games vs. other contenders and competitive teams—with Road wins vs. a contender being “Special.”

In the REAL Standings, each contender is projected to win all Home games and all games against the conference’s bottom-feeders; to lose all Road games versus other contenders; and to be at-risk (i.e., assigned .5 W and .5 L) for all Road games against those teams that are competitive enough to be dangerous, even for a contender, on their Home court.

Second tier teams (i.e., the competitors), are projected to win their Home games vs. their peers and third tier teams; to lose their Road games vs. contenders and their peers; and to be at risk at Home vs. contenders and on the Road vs. the bottom-feeders.

Third tier teams are projected to lose every game except Home games vs. second tier teams (which are counted as at-risk games) and other third tier teams (which are projected W’s).

The only subjective factor in the REAL standings is identifying the contenders, the competitors, and the bottom-feeders. I usually base this on my own observations, with some consideration given to polls and computer rankings, but remain open to changing a team’s status as the season progresses if actual results demonstrate that one of the contenders REALly isn’t, or that one of the others teams should be taken more seriously. Last year, for instance, Baylor started the season as the projected third place team at 12-4, with Mizzou projected in their customary sixth place position (actually, tied for sixth) at 7.5-8.5. The status of both was adjusted (in opposite directions) as time revealed their true status.

THE 2010 PRE-SEASON REAL STANDINGS

My Pre-season assessment of the Big 12 teams is:

1. Contenders: KU, K-State, and UT. Of course. One non-conference loss between the three. Impressive wins by all three. Subjectively, my assessment is that k-state is a notch below the other two, but they have the advantage of getting both KU and UT at Home. Win those two, and they will take the race into March.

2. Competitors: Everyone else. I have not seen anyone who will be anything but tough as nails at Home. Colorado? Maybe. But they have played Gonzaga and Arizona tough on a neutral court. I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt until they prove that they cannot hold their own with the other second tier teams at Home.

Oklahoma? Based on their performance thus far this year, another maybe. But they might have the best talent of all the Tier Two teams. They might be dedicated to playing uninspired, brain dead basketball in the conference play, but I have a hard time imagining that the second season will not give them a second life.

3. Bottom-feeders: None pending further notice.

Here, then, are the 2010 Big 12 REAL Standings two days from the tip-off of the Big 12 season. As can be seen, KU has the most difficult schedule of the Contenders, playing one of the other two at Home and both on the Road. The Jayhawks are burdened with the likelihood that a sixth straight conference championship (or co-) will require at least one victory in either Austin or Manhattan.

UT and K-State both have but one Road game vs. a contender.

The most difficult schedules belong to Iowa St and Mizzou, as both play all three Contenders on the Road and are saddled with two at-risk Home games vs. the two Sunflower State squads.

The pre-season 2010 REAL Standings:

1. 11.5-4.5

K-State (0-0) Projected L’s: at KU
Losable games: at Mizzou, at CU, at BU, at NU, at ISU, at OU, at Tech,

UT (0-0) Projected L’s: at K-State
Losable games: at ISU, at OSU, at OU, at Mizzou, at Tech, at A&M, at BU

3. 11-5

KU Projected L’s: at K-State, at UT
Losable games: at NU, at ISU, at CU, at A&M, at Okie St, at Mizzou

4. 7-9

Baylor (0-0) Projected L’s: at CU, at KU, at UT, at A&M, at NU, at OSU, at OU, at Tech
Losable games: vs. KU, vs. UT

Colorado (0-0) Projected L’s: at UT, at OSU, at A&M, at ISU, at K-State, at KU, at Mizzou, at NU
Losable games: vs. K-State, vs. KU

Nebraska (0-0) Projected L’s: at A&M, at Mizzou, at CU, at KU, at UT, at K-State, at ISU, at OSU
Losable games: vs. KU, vs. K-State

Oklahoma (0-0) Projected L’s: at BU, at A&M, at Tech, at NU, at OSU, at CU, at KU, at UT
Losable games: vs. UT, vs. K-State

Okie St (0-0) Projected L’s: at OU, at BU, at K-State, at Mizzou, at Tech, at Iowa St, at UT, at A&M
Losable games: vs. UT, vs. KU

Texas A&M (0-0) Projected L’s: at K-State, at UT, at Okie St, at Mizzou, at Tech, at ISU, at BU, at OU
Losable games: vs. KU, vs. UT

Texas Tech (0-0) Projected L’s: at OSU, at KU, at UT, at A&M, at OSU, at BU, at NU, at CU
Losable games: vs. UT, vs. K-State

11. 6.5-9.5

Iowa St (0-0) Projected L’s: at NU, at Tech, at OU, at BU, at Mizzou, at KU, at CU, at K-State
Losable games: vs. UT, vs. KU, vs. K-State

Mizzou (0-0) Projected L’s: at Tech, at OU, at KU, at CU, at BU, at NU, at K-State, at ISU
Losable games: vs. K-State, vs. UT, vs. KU

Check back soon for the up-to-date REAL Standings.

–Mark

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