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Robinson and Kansas State running back Deuce Vaughn were the only unanimous selections on the list. Texas also only had two selections: Running back Bijan Robinson and receiver Xavier Worthy. For comparison, OU had nine selections in 2021. Punter Michael Turk was the only Oklahoma starter voted to the Preseason All-Big 12 Team, tied with Kansas. However, after the departure of Lincoln Riley, the Sooners are looking for new contributors. In most years, Oklahoma has ranked among the leaders in selections. West Virginia and Iowa State were close with four each, though they featured a kicker and fullback respectively. Baylor ranked close behind with five selections, including three players in the trenches. Unlike recent seasons, however, there's real balance among the preseason selections.įour teams earned between four and six selections with Kansas State surprisingly leading the pack with six. So as league coaches search for players who can play, and excel, at that level, there's no more proven commodity than a player who's already logged minutes in the Big 12.The Big 12 released its annual Preseason All-Big 12 squad on Wednesday ahead of the conference's media days scheduled for next week. Statistics website ranked the Big 12 as college basketball's best conference in seven of the last nine years, and second-best in the other two years. That means the trend isn't likely to slow down anytime soon. That's a similar setup for second-year Oklahoma coach Porter Moser, who has pursued multiple Big 12 transfers - Oklahoma was a finalist for Thompson in Moser's first offseason, for instance - before falling short. First-year Kansas State coach Jerome Tang, himself an import from a league school in Baylor, kicked the tires on multiple league transfers but ultimately didn't convince one to sign, showing he has no issues with inter-conference transfer sniping. Iowa State deployed Kansas transfer Tristan Enaruna last season before Enaruna decided to transfer again. It's basketball at the end of the day, so I'll be looking forward to it for sure."Īnd the three who won't - Iowa State, Kansas State and Oklahoma - are hardly opposed to it.

So it will be good going back there and competing. "Nothing but love for Tech and everything, you know I laid my heart on the line for them.

"I know it'll be an intense game," McCullar told reporters recently of playing his former teammates. And when the two teams meet up in 2022-23, McCullar will find himself on the opposite side after transferring to Kansas this offseason. Kevin McCullar played in 43 of the 50 possible minutes for Texas Tech, the most of any Red Raider player. One of the most hard-fought Big 12 games this season saw Kansas top Texas Tech in double-overtime in a game with league title implications. But with the NCAA relaxing transfer rules the last few years, intraconference transfers have become vastly more common, especially this year in the Big 12.Īlready this offseason, six players are moving from one Big 12 program to another in the conference which could add some spice to games which already would have been hotly contested. In the not-so-distant past, schools often put the kibosh on players transferring to another program within its own conference.