Big 12 Today

Baylor Head Coach Scott Drew joined Big 12 Today with Ari Temkin, James Westling and Brian Dancel to talk about being at the NBA Draft to see VJ Edgecombe get drafted by the Philadelphia 76ers. He also talked with us about the upcoming 2025-26 season, the major overhaul on his roster and the the hiring of longtime associate Ron Sanchez as his associate head coach.

Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark joined Big 12 Today with Ari Temkin and James Westling to discuss a historic partnership with PayPal to enable institutional payments for Student-Athletes in the new revenue sharing model.

The "Voice of the Bears" John Morris joined Big 12 Today with Ari Temkin and James Westling to talk about all things Baylor. From VJ Edgecombe selected in the NBA Draft to the upcoming kickoff to the 2025 college football season, Morris takes on all topics for the Bears.

CBS Sports College Football writer and Baylor graduate Shehan Jeyarajah joined Big 12 Today with Ari Temkin and James Westling to talk about his article "West Texas boom: Inside Texas Tech's bold all-in bet on NIL and the billionaire landman responsible" that can be found on CBSSports.com. A comprehensive look into Texas Tech, it's athletic program and the key members behind the Lubbock turnaround. From Cody Campbell to Joey McGuire to James Blanchard, Jeyarajah gives you a look into life in West Texas and it's love affair with Texas Tech University.

CBS Sports NBA writer and Oklahom State graduate Kyle Boone joined Big 12 Today with Ari Temkin and James Westling to breakdown night number one of the 2025 NBA Draft and where the surprises were. He also talked about the three Big 12 players taken in Baylor's VJ Edgecombe, BYU's Egor Demin and Arizona's Carter Bryant. He also takes a look at what night number two of the NBA Draft has in store for Big 12 hopefuls.

BYU Basketball Assistant Coach Chris Burgess joined Big 12 Today with Ari Temkin and James Westling to talk about the Cougars basketball program and international phenom Egor Demin in advance of the 2025 NBA Draft. Burgess a former number one recruit in the country before he went to play at Duke under Coach Mike Krzyzewski and at Utah under Rick Majerus, he talks about the progress of the BYU program under head coach Kevin Young and the future of the Cougars program.

West Virginia Athletic Director Wren Baker joined Big 12 Today with Ari Temkin and James Westling to talk about all things about the Mountaineer Athletic Department. From the hiring of football coach Rich Rodriguez, to the basketball coach hiring of Ross Hodge, to his thoughts on life in the collegiate athletics space post the house settlement, Baker gives us an interesting view as an athletic director in the Big 12 Conference.

BYU Insider from KSL Sports, Mitch Harper, joined Big 12 Today with Ari Temkin and James Westling to talk about all things Cougars. On a day that Kalani Sitake await the commitment from a five-star rated quarterback and just a day before the NBA Draft where star guard Egor Demin departs Kevin Young's program for the professional ranks.

ESPN College Basketball Analyst Fran Fraschilla checks in with Big 12 Today with Ari Temkin and James Westling right before the 2025 NBA Draft to talk about Big 12 prospects in the draft. Fran also gives us insight into up and coming Big 12 players that are on the Team USA Basketball Under 19 squad that is about to play in a tournament in Switzerland and being coached by Arizona's Tommy Lloyd and Texas Tech's Grant McCasland.

ESPN college football recruiting analyst Craig Haubert joined Big 12 Today with Ari Temkin and James Westling to talk about the 2026 prospects who are in the process of selecting their colleges.

LuHi Head Basketball Coach John Buck joined Big 12 Today with Ari Temkin and James Westling to talk about former LuHi standout V.J. Edgecombe. Edgecombe is a high NBA Draft prospect in the 2025 draft and Buck takes us through his time as a prep, where he was named New York Gatorade Player of the Year before his time with Baylor and Coach Scott Drew.

Publisher of CollegeFootballNews.com, Pete Fiutak, joined Big 12 Today with Ari Temkin and James Westling to talk about the upcoming football season as he begins to preview Big 12 teams on his website.

ESPN College Football writer Adam Rittenberg joined Big 12 Today with Ari Temkin and James Westling to take us through his College Football Future Power Rankings through 2026 and his early thoughts on the Big 12 Conference going into the 2025 season.

With the recent decision on the House vs NCAA settlement, Big 12 Today has all bases covered including author and writer for Sports Business on Forbes, Kristi Dosh. She joined the show with Ari Temkin and James Westling to further on the discussion of the fall out of the settlement and gave us a different perspective on the matter from the standpoint of the athlete and their parents. Dosh's newly published book "The Athlete's NIL Playbook" is out now.

Defending Big 12 Champion, National Championship runner-up and head coach of the Houston Cougars, Kelvin Sampson, joined Big 12 Today with Ari Temkin and James Westling to talk about Houston's run to the National Championship game and the culture that surrounds his team on-campus. Coach Sampson also talks about differences between coaching at the college level versus the NBA and gives his thoughts on the new college basketball rules regarding coach's challenges and instant replays. Coach also gives us interesting insight into guard Milos Uzan and his decision to come back to Houston for his senior season after entering the NBA Draft.

College athletics attorney and former William and Mary basketball player, Mit Winter, joined Big 12 Today with Ari Temkin and James Westling to talk about the NCAA House Settlement and helps us understand what it all means in relation to collegiate athletics moving forward.

BYU men's head basketball coach Kevin Young joined Big 12 Today with Ari Temkin and James Westling to talk about the release of the Big 12 Conference schedule. Young also gave us his perspective on his team's off-season workouts and the new basketball rules regarding replay and coach's challenges.

Iowa State women's head basketball coach Bill Fennelly joined Big 12 Today with Ari Temkin and James Westling to talk about his team's preparation over the summer for the 2025/26 season and to talk about the early release of the Big 12 Conference schedule.

Our Big 12 Conference Women's Basketball Correspondent Rachel Galligan joined Big 12 Today with Ari Temkin and James Westling to talk about the upcoming season matchups as the conference scheduling matrix was released. She also gave us her view on new head coaches in the conference and who might be a sleeper in 2025/26.

Arizona pitcher Casey Hintz joined Big 12 Today with Ari Temkin and James Westling as the Wildcats are off to the College World Series. Hintz talks about motivations for the team and head coach Chip Hale.