Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark, a messaging master with a life-long fondness for college basketball, wasted no time drawing his line in the hardwood.

One week before the start of the 2025-26 season, Yormark appeared on a TNT football broadcast and declared Big 12 basketball “the second best league behind the NBA.”

The SEC, which sent a record 14 teams to the NCAA Tournament last spring and produced the national champion (Florida), might take issue with Yormark’s remark.

The Big Ten might push back, as well (because the Big Ten pushes back on everything).

The ACC? Eh, not so much.

Fortunately, clarity will come to the conference hierarchy beginning Nov. 3, with the start of the regular season.

Yes, it’s early — too early, perhaps, given the sport’s ongoing struggle for traction dur

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