Big 12

The four remaining Pac-12 schools, California, Stanford, Oregon State and Washington State, will have options if they are looking for another conference.

A mass exodus has led to a seismic shift in the Pac-12 Conference. The “Conference of Champions” suffered what could be crushing blows after five schools announced defections from the league within hours of each other.

A group of Big Ten presidents has begun discussing the possibility of adding more West Coast schools to the conference if the Pac-12 continues to crumble.

Colorado's announcement Thursday that it will return to the Big 12 comes a little more than a year after USC and UCLA said they were ditching the Pac-12 to join the Big Ten.

Big 12 presidents and chancellors have voted unanimously to accept Colorado as a new member, clearing the way for the school to leave the Pac-12 and rejoin the conference.

Alabama is No. 1 in the final AP Top 25 men's college basketball poll of the season Houston is No. 2 and Big Ten champion Purdue was third.

Conference tournaments will give AP Top 25 teams a last chance this week to impact their seeding for the NCAA Tournament.

The women's Pac-12 Conference Tournament gets underway Wednesday in Las Vegas with four first-round games. The conference has a chance to place at least eight teams in the NCAA Tournament.

Tyrese Hunter scored 26 points and a led a 3-point shooting spree for No. 11 Texas that carried the Longhorns to a 93-74 win over No. 2 Gonzaga.

Pac-12 players and coaches are considering what the next several days of baseball would look like at Scottsdale Stadium during the inaugural Pac-12 postseason tournament.