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00:00for Calvin Sampson and his Cougs in that conference. They are the one seed in the
00:04Big 12 tourney that starts today in KC. Not quite the minus money favorite at minus 340
00:10that Duke is in the ACC tournament. How open is the race for the conference championship in the
00:15Big 12? Well it's always going to be open in the Big 12 because there's so many good teams.
00:21Remember last year Iowa State won the Big 12 tournament and also blew out Houston in the
00:26process in the title game. But here's the thing Ben. We obviously keep a close eye on conference
00:31tournaments because teams on the bubble are going to need wins in these settings to bolster their
00:37resumes for the NCAA tournament. But we have seen mixed results over the years as to what kind of
00:42momentum in a conference tournament will then lend itself to momentum in March Madness. So
00:47I'm curious to see sometimes you know teams who are knocked out early in these conference
00:52tournaments get more rest, get more momentum for the Big Dance. I'm curious to see how that
00:56correlates. You know talking to coaches and I've seen several coaches talk about this on the record.
01:01John Calipari recently talked about it with the SEC tournament. I've heard Mick Cronin say it.
01:06The NCAA tournament is what matters. Now you want to win every single game and you're paid to win
01:11games. But with that said you know it's really really difficult to project just how much
01:17conference tournament success is going to correlate to what happens in the Big Dance.