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.

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 o

In a span of three days, the Big 12 Conference produced perhaps the most enthralling college basketball games of the season. On Saturday, Houston rallied from a six-point deficit late in regulation and another six-point hole in the closing seconds of the first overtime to pull off a double-overtime win at arguably the toughest Big 12 venue to get one in,

Houston took an unlikely path to victory in Allen Fieldhouse last weekend when the Cougars rallied from six points down in the final seconds of overtime, then beat Kansas in the second extra period. But the outcome itself was not unusual. Road teams are thriving in the Big 12 compared to prior years.

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.

Are we ready to put Houston in the elite tier of college basketball this season? Auburn and Duke have been staples at the top of our Power Rankings for several weeks, with Iowa State in the mix. And while Tennessee has faded,

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.