Texas Basketball: 3 teams that benefit from collapse of the Big 12
Kansas
If we’re talking about calling cards that make the remaining schools in the Big 12 marketable to other conferences, you can’t not talk about head coach Bill Self and the Kansas Jayhawks. The most prominent men’s basketball program in the Big 12, and one of the most powerful in the entire college hoops landscape, is Kansas.
According to Forbes valuations released for men’s basketball programs last year, Kansas is one of the five most valuable college hoops programs in the entire country. Kansas and Texas were the only two schools that made it in the top 20 from the Big 12, but the Jayhawks had the lead far and away.
And it’s hard not to say that Baylor wouldn’t be a part of the 20 most valuable men’s hoops programs whenever the Forbes valuations drop for this year.
If Texas and Oklahoma were the powers that be in the Big 12 that propped the conference up financially in football, then Kansas was the equivalent for basketball. Kansas likely won’t have any problems joining a conference like the Big Ten thanks to the academic standing and the ultra-valuable men’s hoops program.
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Kansas could actually find itself in a more advantageous spot financially thanks to the prominence of the men’s basketball program if it joins the Big Ten. And that was all set off with Texas and Oklahoma bolting from the Big 12 to the SEC this week.
It might also help Kansas to get a change of scenery for football, because whatever the program was doing in the Big 12 in the past decade was clearly not working.