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Weary of SEC? Try this stat: 105-1
Published: 1/8/2010 9:51 AM
Last Modified: 1/8/2010 9:51 AM

Tired of hearing about the SEC's football dominance? Let me throw a little Big 12 men's basketball propoganda out there.
In fact, let's start with this stat: 105-1.
Big 12 basketball teams won 105 out of 106 home games during the nonconference portion of the season.
Your first reaction is to tell me they played quite a few schools with hyphens followed by the words "Pine Bluff" and "Eastern Shore."
And I'm here to tell you that you are missing the point.
Yes, every team played its share of bums at home. But you still wouldn't expect the record to be 105-1 because bad days at the office are darn near inevitable, regardless of the quality of competition.
Here's what it really tells me: It's going to be harder than ever for Big 12 teams to salvage road wins in league play this season. It doesn't matter where you go -- Manhattan, Ames, Waco. It's still going to be a street brawl.
More Big 12 bragging points, courtesy of the league office:
--The Big 12's .828 nonconference winning percentage is the nation's best and the league's 29 nonconference losses are the nation's fewest.
--Big 12 teams averaged a nation-best 11.67 wins in nonleague games.
--The Big 12 is 28-10 against the five other "power" conferences -- ACC, Big East, Big 10, Pac-10 and SEC.
--The Big 12 won a single-season record 140 nonconference games this season. Two Big 12 teams (Kansas and Texas) started at least 14-0 for the first time in history. The Jayhawks and Longhorns are ranked 1-2.


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Tulsa World sports writer Jimmie Tramel is a former class president at Locust Grove High School. He graduated magna cum laude from Northeastern State University with a journalism degree and, while attending college, was sports editor of the Pryor Daily Times. He joined the Tulsa World on Oct. 17, 1989, the same day an earthquake struck the World Series. He is the OSU basketball beat writer and a columnist and feature writer during football season. In 2007, he wrote a book about Oklahoma State football with former Cowboy coach Pat Jones.

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