Pick'em Session 1 (Let the Wars Begin)

[YCN]

:BIG12:


Generally swok34 has posted these Pick'em threads in the recent past, but I'll go ahead and get this one started tonight, since the first games are all on Saturday.

The game is simple, you simply pick the winners of conference games. There are 17 sessions in all, 96 conference games total. I reserve the right to throw in some juicy non-conference game on occasion (or even two) for extra credit.

Last year there were no scores tossed out, but this year I think the game should revert a little bit, so the worst score anybody has over the course of the conference season will not count. That allows everyone the luxury of missing a session without totally ruining your chances of winning the contest.

I think that given how it appears that the conference is going to be extremely competitive this year, people might not want to give up too early on their chances, because there are bound to be some scores by everyone that aren't close to perfect, and I say that with a wink and a smile.

So, without further delay, here are the games for the first session:

Saturday, January 9, 2010

All Times are Central

Kansas at Kansas State, 11 am (FSN)
Missouri at Colorado, 1 pm (FSN)
Baylor at Oklahoma State, 2:30 pm (CSN)
Texas Tech at Oklahoma, 2:30 pm (TTSN/SSN)
Texas A&M at Texas, 5 pm (FSSW)
Nebraska at Iowa State, 7 pm

Please make your picks prior to the start of the first game. I reserve the right to reject any pick made after the start time of that game. In particular, I recommend that you go ahead and make all your picks well ahead of time, because you can always change a pick later, as long as the games haven't begun. You may not edit to change your picks during a gameday, after the first game has begun, as that might affect the fairness of the contest, as well as make it harder to score.

If you fail to get your picks in on time, and if the session is across multiple days, you may pick those games remaining in order to save the remainder of your session from being a total bagel. This happens most commonly when someone doesn't realize that there is a game or are games on a Monday or Tuesday, so always read the Pick'em Session "N" post as soon as you see it posted, so you can avoid losing chances to pick games.

[bigmwc]

So we pick the winners and have to choose a score too? Then send it as a PM to you? :confused: Sorry.. never played!

[wildcatfan]

Kansas at Kansas State KU
Missouri at Colorado MU
Baylor at Oklahoma State BU
Texas Tech at Oklahoma OU
Texas A&M at Texas A&M
Nebraska at Iowa State ISU

[Dale8R]

Nope, you just stick 'em in here and wait to see how bad you look!

Kansas Can't remember ever picking Kansas over KSU before
Missouri The Tigers are ready!
Baylor Too much up front
Oklahoma I'd like to see Tech win, but . . .
Texas Because it's at Texas
Nebraska A tough one, just a bit past a coin flip

[mgood1]

Kansas
Colorado
Baylor
Oklahoma
Texas A&M
Nebraska

[bigmwc]

Kansas
Colorado
Baylor
Oklahoma
TAMU
Iowa St.

[YCN]

I firmly believe that I ought to get about half of these right...

Kansas
Missouri
Baylor
Oklahoma
Texas
Nebraska

I'll be correcting the three wrong picks right before the deadline, so that no one can copy my picks. ;)

[Gator]

arrrrrgggghhhhh! If I hold true to form, I'll be so far down the list by mid season, I'll stop picking and just go into a corner and pout. However, as hope spring eternal, here goes:

Kansas
Missouri
Baylor
Oklahoma
Texas A&M

Nebraska at Iowa State, 7 pm Oh shees - do I HAVE to pick one - where is that coin I need to flip....

OK: Nebraska

[tycat947]

Kansas at Kansas State
Missouri at Colorado
Baylor at Oklahoma State
Texas Tech at Oklahoma
Texas A&M at Texas
Nebraska at Iowa State

[TTU79]

Kansas
Missouri
Baylor
Oklahoma (This really bothers me to choose Okla. over my team, but I swore I wouldn't be such a homer this year)
Texas A&M
Nebraska

[LadyBuff]

Kansas at Kansas State
Missouri at Colorado Please Lady Buffs prove me right
Baylor at Oklahoma State
Texas Tech at Oklahoma
Texas A&M at Texas
Nebraska at Iowa State Hilton Magic

[35TangoTango]

Kansas at Kansas State - Feels strange to pick the 'Hawks
Missouri at Colorado - I'll go with the home team
Baylor at Oklahoma State - lock of the week
Texas Tech at Oklahoma - can the Sooners play interior defense?
Texas A&M at Texas - This one's a toss 'up
Nebraska at Iowa State - Huskers are too strong this year

[Bball Girl]

Kansas
Colorado
Baylor
Oklahoma
Texas
Nebraska

[Noah121]

Every one is going to be a tough pick this year! I love that!

Kansas at Kansas State, :KU:
Missouri at Colorado, :CU:
Baylor at Oklahoma State, :BU:
Texas Tech at Oklahoma, :OU:
Texas A&M at Texas, :UT:
Nebraska at Iowa State, :NU:

[Bob_Ballew]

Kansas
Missouri
Baylor
Oklahoma
Texas
Nebraska

[swok34]

Kansas at Kansas State
Missouri at Colorado
Baylor at Oklahoma State
Texas Tech at Oklahoma
Texas A&M at Texas
Nebraska at Iowa State

Sorry guys, I'm back. Just been doing some different things; will probably suck at my pics since I haven't been paying close attention to any team not OU. But I do know that Kansas stubbed their toe early, playing better now and Nebraska is the talk of the town and Griner had 2 dunks in her last game. Absolutely no clue on the Missouri/Colorado game.

[hornhonker]

Kansas
Missouri
Baylor
Oklahoma
Texas
Nebraska

[giraffespots]

Kansas at Kansas State
Missouri at Colorado,
Baylor at Oklahoma State,
Texas Tech at Oklahoma,
Texas A&M at Texas,
Nebraska at Iowa State,

[spooky]

Kansas at Kansas State
Missouri at Colorado
Baylor at Oklahoma State
Texas Tech at Oklahoma
Texas A&M at Texas
Nebraska at Iowa State

[bosley]

In years past, I've started, or thought about starting, but never followed all the way through. THIS is the year I push all the way to the end.

Kansas at Kansas State
Missouri at Colorado
Baylor at Oklahoma State
Texas Tech at Oklahoma
Texas A&M at Texas
Nebraska at Iowa State

[ISU 40]

Wow time flies by. This is going to be an exciting year and this year is going to be hard to pick winners in each session.

Kansas
Missouri
Baylor
Oklahoma
Texas
Iowa State- just let me be right on this one :D (Got a really good feeling)

[Guns Up!]

Kansas
Colorado
Baylor
Oklahoma
Texas A&M
Nebraska

[HuskerFan86]

Kansas at Kansas State
Missouri at Colorado
Baylor at Oklahoma State
Texas Tech at Oklahoma
Texas A&M at Texas
Nebraska at Iowa State

[Noah121]

One of the mods or Commish may want to sticky this.

[UCONN@BIG12]

OK here goes...

Kansas - a total guess
Missouri - cuz I just don't see it going the other way.
Baylor - no brainer
OU - just like 'em
Texas - no other reason than that they are at home.
Nebraska - tough call, but have to go with the adopted team and I've seen them play...They look REALLY Good! :)

[JEilers2000]

Kansas
Missouri
Baylor
Oklahoma
Texas A&M
Nebraska

[BenEClone]

Kansas at Kansas State KU
Missouri at Colorado MU
Baylor at Oklahoma State BU
Texas Tech at Oklahoma OU
Texas A&M at Texas A&M
Nebraska at Iowa State NU

KSU hasn't shown much this year. MU played surprisingly strong against Xavier. BU likely, but, OSU seems tournament worthy. OU, I think - too early to tell. A&M likely, but, here again, its early to tell about Texas. Hope to be wrong, but, NU has it all together and ISU doesn't (yet) - best defense here is to blow the Missouri River bridge.:ISU:
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[05Longhorn]

Kansas State
Colorado
Baylor
Oklahoma
Texas
Iowa State

[Jimi]

Saturday, January 9, 2010

Kansas at Kansas State, 11 am (FSN)
Missouri at Colorado, 1 pm (FSN)
Baylor at Oklahoma State, 2:30 pm (CSN)
Texas Tech at Oklahoma, 2:30 pm (TTSN/SSN)
Texas A&M at Texas, 5 pm (FSSW)
Nebraska at Iowa State, 7 pm

I'm crazy, but not quite as crazy as you think I am. :)

[BEAR SKIN]

Kansas
Colorado
Baylor
Oklahoma
Texas A&M
Nebraska


Jimi picks OSU --- in Texas Holdem, its called "a value bet" ---
Not great odds to win, but great payoff possible on the river.

[#1OUWBBFAN]

Kansas State
Colorado
Baylor
Oklahoma
Texas
Iowa State-I know that Nebraska is really good this year, but it is so hard to beat Iowa State at home.

Hey SWOK. I've been gone a while also. It says I last visited on 10-21-2008. I didn't realize it had been so long. I am really ready for conference play to begin. Good luck to everyone!

[ChipperF1]

Kansas at Kansas State, 11 am (FSN) -- Beakers meet Kittens on the Lower Farm Side of Manhattan. What we have here are the Jayhawks trying to find their rhythm, and the Wildcats trying to find their new team personality. Deb Patterson wishes her new assistant coach has some eligibility left. I'm taking Kansas. They have played solidly through a tough slate of games, they just need to get the parts working in harmony. They'll take a step in the right direction in this opener -- Kansas 71, Kansas State 60

Missouri at Colorado, 1 pm (FSN) -- Missouri has the talent to at least nibble at the midpack, but the organisation to finish 12th. Colorado has a group hot rod at the perimeter, but Edsels in the paint. Somehow I'm taking Colorado. If the game becomes a run and gun game, make mine the Buffs -- Colorado 79, Missouri 72

Baylor at Oklahoma State, 2:30 pm (CSN) -- The league's most exciting prospect meets the league's most exciting player, and this one will be a wild one. Andrea Riley, the Mouse that Roared meeting the U.S.S. Brittany Griner. Who wins that battle should Riley try to drive the lane for a lay up?

As far as the game, Baylor has this one. Take Brittany Griner away from the Bears, they still are a conference contender. Melissa Jones will have a big night. -- Baylor 84, Oklahoma State 69

Texas Tech at Oklahoma, 2:30 pm (TTSN/SSN) --The Lady Raiders will try to make Guns Up faithful forget about Mike Leach and they just may against an OU team who is trying to channel Billy Tubbs, but are finding themselves channel more Danny Nee in some big-name matchups.
Who are the Sooners missing more, Courtney Paris or Whitney Hand? I'd say BOTH, and just in time for Kiera Mallard, who's going to make things hell in Norman, or at least scary enough to make OU think.

The Sooners win, but they'll go through purgatory in a petroleum plaid skirt for it -- Oklahoma 64, Texas Tech 61

Texas A&M at Texas, 5 pm (FSSW) -- The Big 12's scariest defense vs. the Big 12's most overrated offense. Can somebody tell me why Brittany Raven would ever be in any coach's doghouse? It seems that she was in Gail Goestenkoers' during the non-con slate. For the Longhorns to win, they need their best ballhandler in the fold to feed that Kathleen Nash person and a I really like that Kathleen Nash person. She a hybrid cross of Heather Schreiber and Kala Bowers, and the results are rather tempting.

The problem is, Texas A&M hunter-killer perimeter defense, and Raven is the only guard who can effectively deal with it...IF Goestenkoers takes Raven's game out of handcuffs, which she wont.

On the Texas A&M side, They are building an offense, Sydney Colson grabbed the QB spot and she's doing well with it. We are beginning to see Tyra White's ability blossom. Tanisha Smith and Danielle Adams make tough 1-2 punch/outside-inside game. The only real is overall size, organisation and execution. The Aggies still get through on athleticism, but they are finding that the athleticism gap in this league is closing. The only saving grace for them tonight is that Texas' interior still hasn't shown that they a willing to get dirty on the boards and the inside the paint. That is why I see the Aggies sawing varsity's horns off -- Texas A&M 68, Texas 59

Nebraska at Iowa State, 7 pm -- 13-0? Nebraska? No (expletive) way. Yep. Its all true. The Huskers ran the non-con table with Kelsey Griffin getting all Ndamukong on people throughout the slate. Whodathunkit? I certainly didn't.
But this is the Hilton, baby. This darn arena can kill ANYBODY

The missile silos are still ready. Now its Allison Lacey with the hands on the keys, and that future Opal is quite scary and may teach freshman Nebraska point Lindsey Moore a few things.

The question for Iowa State is who else can come to the party? Could it be Kelsey Bolte? She has before...on offense, can she or Whitney Williams step up the defensive standard that Lacey and Heather Ezell did last year. Can you leave Anna Prins out on the island against Kelsey Griffin, or Cory Montgomery. Unlike past ISU-Nebraska encounter Bill Fennelly cannot stay in a zone defense and dare Nebraska to shot the basketball and expect a lot of misses, because Nebraska's developing enough of a shooting stroke to make teams pay...

And there is the specter of Griffin. The Freshman-Sophomore-Junior Kelsey Griffin was a good to very good player but a step short of great...This years' Kelsey Griffin has a fire in her belly, the athleticism to match and the game savvy to put it all together. When Iowa State meets a player like that, they often lose to that player's team.

This is not to say Nebraska will win this game easily? No way. The Huskers have pigeons to probe, too. Vonnie Turner is an awesome defender, when her game's on...But Lacey has made her look feeble before. Dominique Kelley under control is an offensive nightmare, but DK out of control is a nightmare, too for her own team.

And there is the achilles heel..If Kelsey Griffin's not on the floor, how good are the Nebraska Cornhuskers? That a $64,000 question that the whole league is asking...and Iowa State is a prime team to give an early answer.

January will be a referendum how much we can believe that Nebraska's a league contender. Past referendums have concluded that the Huskers aren't ready for contending prime-time. This game will be the beginning of the Huskers showing true contending form. -- Nebraska 74, Iowa State 66

What March Do You Want? Let the answer begin!

[Cyclones Rule]

Kansas at Kansas State :KU:
Missouri at Colorado :CU:
Baylor at Oklahoma State :BU:
Texas Tech at Oklahoma :OU:
Texas A&M at Texas :UT:
Nebraska at Iowa State :NU: Hate to pick against ISU at home but I have a feeling this is going to be like 2 years ago in Hilton when Neb ran out out to a 20 point lead in the first 5 minutes. ISU played nobodies in the non-conf and it's going to cost us in conf. play. I hope I'm wrong.

[Cory]

Kansas
Missouri
Baylor
Oklahoma
Texas A&M
Nebraska

[Row6Seat10]

Kansas over Kansas St
Colorado over Missouri
Baylor over Oklahoma St
Oklahoma over Texas Tech
Texas over Texas A&M
Nebraska over Iowa St

[BearLady]

Kansas at Kansas State
Missouri at Colorado
Baylor at Oklahoma State
Texas Tech at Oklahoma
Texas A&M at Texas
Nebraska at Iowa State

here goes a new spin of the roulette wheel!

Logic says to me that more than 1 home team will win, but I just don't know which additional one(s) it is!

[breid]

Kansas
Missouri
Baylor
Oklahoma
Texas A&M
Nebraska

[carolann]

Kansas
Colorado
Oklahoma St.
Oklahoma
Texas
Nebraska

[H2H]

Kansas
Colorado
Baylor
Oklahoma
Texas
Iowa State

[tx4OU]

Kansas at Kansas State, 11 am (FSN) :KU:
Missouri at Colorado, 1 pm (FSN) :CU:
Baylor at Oklahoma State, 2:30 pm (CSN) :BU:
Texas Tech at Oklahoma, 2:30 pm (TTSN/SSN) :OU:
Texas A&M at Texas, 5 pm (FSSW) :TAMU:
Nebraska at Iowa State, 7 pm :ISU:

[ChiBears]

Kansas (not sure if I got under the wire on this game, might have to count as loss)
Missouri
Baylor
Texas Tech
Texas A&M
Nebraska

[CowgirlsFreak]

Kansas (not sure if I got under the wire on this game, might have to count as loss)
Missouri
Baylor
Texas Tech
Texas A&M
Nebraska

Even if you got it in on time, it looks like a loss.

[Waylontheman]

KSU(sorry I didn't see this thread until now or I would have picked them!)
so either way count it or dont lol
CU
Baylor
OU
Aggies
ISU

[mgood1]

Every single one of us picked KU. I think that almost guarantees an upset. :rolleyes:
All but two picked BU.
All but one picked OU.

[EDIT: All right, one person picked KSU after the game started and the 'Cats are off to a strong start.]
[EDIT EDIT: Jimi and #1OUWBBFAN picked KSU. I scrolled through too fast and missed them.]

[Dale]

KU (the game's started, obviously, but I would have picked KU and I don't think anyone will begrudge me picking the team down by 25 with 8:00 to go)
Colorado
Baylor
Oklahoma
A&M
Nebraska, alas

M. Dale
:ISU:

[mgood1]

KU (the game's started, obviously, but I would have picked KU and I don't think anyone will begrudge me picking the team down by 25 with 8:00 to go)
Well, if they somehow come back and win it, they should give you that one.

[tx4OU]

Well Lawzie, or as Gator would say, Good Gussie Gawd; this year's pick'em is going to be somthing similar to making sausage. At least for me it is. That first game just goes to show what I know about this year's B12 teams.:oo

[YCN]

Well Lawzie, or as Gator would say, Good Gussie Gawd; this year's pick'em is going to be somthing similar to making sausage. At least for me it is. That first game just goes to show what I know about this year's B12 teams.:oo

Of course, everyone should have known that a KSU team with four losses outside the RPI top 100 would beat a ranked KU team. It makes perfect sense, right?

[YCN]

Kansas (not sure if I got under the wire on this game, might have to count as loss)
Missouri
Baylor
Texas Tech
Texas A&M
Nebraska

Games rarely start at exactly the announced start time. You may have gotten in under the wire, but it's still counted as a loss either way.

[YCN]

KSU(sorry I didn't see this thread until now or I would have picked them!)
so either way count it or dont lol
CU
Baylor
OU
Aggies
ISU

I can't make special rules for late entries. Sorry, but the first pick doesn't count.

[YCN]

KU (the game's started, obviously, but I would have picked KU and I don't think anyone will begrudge me picking the team down by 25 with 8:00 to go)
Colorado
Baylor
Oklahoma
A&M
Nebraska, alas

M. Dale
:ISU:

Duly noted, however any picks after the start of a game will be ignored. I can't make special exceptions.

[LadyBuff]

YCN, not that it will probably matter in the end, but I wanted to point out that early this morning, I changed my Missouri vs Colorado pick to Colorado. It was before either game started as I'm sure you can tell by the edit time.

[LadyBuff]

If my quick peek at all the picks was correct, JIMI has all four of the day games correct. :eek: Congrats so far, JIMI.