Posted October 7th, 2008 by Brian
Filed under: Basketball
With the Horns and Sooners set to do battle at the Cotton Bowl on Saturday, there’s another reason for fans of the two teams to argue and spit at each other. The Big 12 has released the men’s basketball preseason coaches poll and Texas is at number two right behind [tag]Oklahoma[/tag].
The Horns lost their best player in [tag]DJ Augustin[/tag] but returns a ton of talent and depth everywhere but point guard. With defending conference and national champs [tag]Kansas[/tag] losing so many players the conference is wide open this season. If either [tag]Dogus Balbay[/tag] or somebody can step up to man the point the Longhorns should have another shot to win the conference and make a deep tourney run.
2008-09 Big 12 Preseason Poll
See how the coaches think the league will turn out below:
| Team | Points | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oklahoma (3) | 109 |
| 2 | Texas (4) | 107 |
| 3 | Baylor (2) | 103 |
| Kansas (3) | 103 | |
| 5 | Texas A&M | 79 |
| 6 | Oklahoma State | 69 |
| 7 | Missouri | 51 |
| 8 | Kansas State | 50 |
| 9 | Nebraska | 49 |
| 10 | Texas Tech | 39 |
| 11 | Iowa State | 20 |
| 12 | Colorado | 13 |
reply to #1
Mike
October 7th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
I think Justin Mason plays a lot of point guard this year and Balbay surprises some people.