Cowboys take care of business!

    Congrats to the 2010 cross country national champs Oklahoma State!!! They now hold back to back national championships! With a final score of 73 points, the Cowboys placed fifth, sixth, and seventh, in the race with the Junior Girma Mecheso in fifth with a time of 29:48, followed by another Junior German Fernandez with a time of 29:50, and Colby Lowe coming in at 29:58 in seventh place. Once again congrats to the 2010 national champs Oklahoma State!

     Tune in tonight on ESPN2 to see No. 4 Kansas State battle No. 18 Gonzaga at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, MO. The game tips off at 8:30 p.m. You can expect another post tomorrow with stats, and more from the game and other games around the Big 12.

The No. 8 Aggie's were hungry for corn on the cob!

     The No. 8 Nebraska Corn Huskers were having a great football season with 9 wins and 1 loss. That one loss turned into two last night with an Aggie victory 9-6.  It was a battle of field goals in the first half, and was tied at half 3-3. In the second half scores didn't come to the fourth quarter, when Nebraska had a field goal, and A&M had a touch down. That ended the game with an Aggie upset.

     Meanwhile, the Kansas State Wildcats where holding on tight as their game against the Colorado Buffs was slipping away. They ended up losing the game 44-36. In this game, it was also a battle of scoring but not field goals, touchdowns. Every time the Wildcats would score, the Buffs would immediately answer back with a score. Which frustrated the Wildcats and made it twice as hard to pull out of a major stall.

     Looking into today, Men's and Women's basketball are underway today starting off with Nebraska vs. Hofstra at 9:30 this morning on ESPNU. More to come today with scores, updates, and discussion on the Big 12 and its games.

"Presby... wait who?"

     Yep, it was Presbyterian who took on the Kansas State Wildcats last night and what a job they did. Eventhough they lost 76-67 they made the Wildcats work, run, pass, and shoot, under heavy pressure from the Blue Hoes. They even got within three points around four minutes left in the second half. Coach Frank Martin said on FSKC, "We're supposed to get better, not worse, and we got worse,".

     Meanwhile No. 22 Texas faced off agaisnt No. 16 ranked Illinois. It was a hard fought battle that resulting in an overtime 90-84 Longhorn victory. Booth teams played like it was March in the first half heading to the locker rooms with a 45-45 score. After half, the Longhorns made a 11-2 run which was anserwed by the Illini with a 15-3 run. Texas will play No. 4 Pittsburg while Illinois will play Maryland.

     Shifting to the North division, Kansas takes on North Texas tonight at Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence, KS. The Jayhawks are undefeated so far this pre-season. Bill Self and the team are ready to get the season underway. The Jayhawks will tipoff at 7:00 p. m. on Jayhawk Television. More to come fron the Big 12 Journal!

  

A Night of Hoops

     Theres a night of basketball ahead for some of the teams in the Big 12, starting with Kansas State taking on Presbyterian at Fred Bramlage Coliseum in Manhattan. The Wildcats remain undefeated so far this season and Presbyterian is 0-1. The points leaders for the two teams are Jacob Pullen the Senior for K-State averaging 16.5 points per game, and Junior Center Al'Lonzo Coleman for Presbyterian averaging 17.0 points. Coleman will be competing against Rodney McGruder in the rebounds. McGruder averages 8.5 rebounds per game while Coleman usually gets around 6.0 rebounds per game. "We are not going to go out and do cartwheels because we won a game in November," said K-State coach Frank Martin as reported on ESPN. Martin also said that these past few games have been great learning experiences for both the team and the coaches.

     Besides the Wildcats, the No. 22 Longhorns are up at Madison Square Garden in New York, NY to take on No. 16 ranked Illinois. Both teams have yet to lose and have nothing to lose. When comparing stats, both teams are almost evenly matched, which makes for some of the most exciting college basketball in the nation. From the Texas standpoint, Hamilton leads in points per game with 22.5, while the Fighting Illini, are lead by Demetri McCamey averaging 14.7 points per game. The most crucial key for the Longhorns is to stop the Illini's D.J. Richardson who took fire with three three pointers in ninety seconds against the Souther Illinois Salukis in their last game. Meanwhile Texas is desperately trying to comeback this season after their heartbreaking loss last year in the big dance to Wake Forest in the first round. More to come on these games later.


    Finishing out this post, we focus Baylor, taking on Jackson State, No. 14 Missouri hosting Western Illinois and the Nebraska Corn Huskers face Vanderbilt on ESPNU. In Oklahoma, both the Sooners and the Cowboys will play. Texas Southern heads to Oklahoma and Gambling State travels to Oklahoma State. 

The Big 12 Journal Kicks off!

Well here it is! The new Big 12 Journal!! You can expect at least one post a day on all of the news and such happening in the Big 12 Sports conference. Still more to come from this as it has just come together so bear with me!!!

Thanks

Jaecy