Midweek games played since Sunday will be reflected on next week’s Power Rankings. At this moment in the Big 12 Men's Basketball season, there are the top five teams, and then there is everyone else.

Sure, the win at Kansas is really the only marquee victory Houston has so far this season, but a 13-game winning streak with 11 double-digit wins over that stretch earns Kelvin Sampson's team a place in the top tier of the sport.

Houston has won 11 straight. It has the best defense in the country. It's why the Cougars are this week's new No. 1 in the Big 12 power rankings.

Midweek games played since Sunday will be reflected on next week’s Power Rankings. When we published the weekly Power Rankings last week, the TCU women's basketball team had just suffered their first conference loss at Oklahoma State.

OSU (16-3, 6-2 Big 12) stunned the country when it earned a 60-59 home win over No. 9 TCU on Wednesday. The Cowgirls erased a 15-point deficit to secure their first top-10 win since 2017, and they showed why they're legitimate Big 12 title contenders.

Winning on the road in college basketball is tough. Doing it in a hostile environment like the one in Morgantown, West Virginia can be nearly impossible - espec

UCLA, the only unbeaten Division I team remaining, is on track to continue its best season in program history.

Houston (5-12, 1-5 Big 12) delivered the biggest upset of conference play so far when it earned a 79-76 home win over OSU on Tuesday. Kierra Merchant scored a game-high 20 points for the Cougars, who led by as many as 26 points.

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Houston picked up a two-game road sweep in Big 12 Conference play at a pair of the league’s more imposing venues. As a result, the Cougars maintain their hold on first place in the conference. Not to mention solidifying the top spot in the latest edition of the Big 12 power rankings.