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BIG 12 SQUAD - Three Big 12 Teams ALIVE in March Madness | Can the Big 12 WIN IT ALL?

·30 min

1. Locked On Oklahoma State - Daily Podcast On Oklahoma State Cowboys Football & Basketball runs a Big 12 Squad episode centered on March Madness and the conference’s remaining tournament teams. 2. Drake Toll hosts with Parker Ainsworth, Cody Stovall, and Philip Mulford, and each brings a different school perspective from the Locked On network. 3. The episode asks whether the Big 12 can still win the national championship with Houston, Arizona, and Iowa State alive. 4. The hosts say they had all three teams in their Final Four picks, and they argue those are the only Big 12 teams that could realistically win it all. 5. Parker Ainsworth points to early-season Big 12 depth, then says injuries to teams like Topping’s and Saunders’ changed the conference picture. 6. The group notes that Iowa State is still advancing despite not being fully healthy. 7. They frame that as evidence of “a different kind of dominance” at the top of the sport. 8. The conversation then turns to March Madness bracket chaos and why the Sweet 16 feels unusually strong. 9. Drake Toll pushes back on calls for Texas to be labeled a Cinderella, saying a five seed with NIL resources does not fit that label. 10. The hosts contrast that with true mid-major underdogs like St. John’s and Iowa, while also discussing the “old ball coach” and Rick Pitino’s continued relevance. 11. A long stretch of the episode is spent on NIL and the transfer portal, with the hosts arguing that money and roster retention are reshaping who can make a real Cinderella run. 12. One speaker says that elite teams and loaded rosters now dominate the tournament more often than surprise teams built on hot shooting. 13. The conversation includes a claim that High Point had a “4.2 million dollar NIL base,” used as an example of how budgets now matter. 14. The hosts also talk about how freshman stars and rapid transfers make traditional small-school breakout stories harder to sustain. 15. Later, the show shifts to Big 12 coaching hires, starting with Randy Bennett at Arizona State. 16. Phil Mulford calls Bennett a “home run hire” but worries that Arizona State may only get him for about five years because of his age and family situation. 17. The group then debates whether Jared Calhoun is the best hire in the conference cycle, with Cincinnati, Kansas State, and Arizona State all part of the discussion. 18. The tone is loose, conversational, and full of interruptions, with joking about wrestling, hairlines, Frosties, and random NCAA scandals. 19. Fans of Big 12 basketball, bracket talk, and coaching carousel debates would get the most out of this episode. 20. Listeners wanting a tight, serious breakdown of one game should probably skip it.

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