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The No. 2 ranked team in the country, the Baylor Bears, have earned the top seed in this year’s Big 12 tournament. The festivities get underway Wednesday from the T-Mobile Center, in Kansas City, Missouri. The Kansas Jayhawks grabbed the No. 2 seed and by virtue of tiebreakers, the Texas Longhorns grabbed the No. 3 seed with the West Virginia Mountaineers slotting in at No. 4.
Bill Self’s Kansas club looked like it was going to miss the NCAA tournament after losing four of five games to close out the month of January. Instead, the Jayhawks ripped off seven wins in its final eight regular season games while posting a lucrative 6-1-1 ATS run over that span.
Baylor’s only loss this season was at Kansas, 71-58, on Feb. 27 at Allen Fieldhouse. Since that defeat to the Jayhawks, the Bears have won three straight games over three ranked teams: Texas Tech, Oklahoma State and West Virginia.
Although they are not being offered by sportsbooks at desirable plus-odds, the wise guys see Baylor as the play to win the Big 12 tournament at -134. With Baylor’s Cousy Award finalist Jared Butler running the show, the Bears look like not only a contender for the Big 12 but also for a national championship.