We’re alive and back home, having driven through a pea soup of a fog from about Oklahoma City to Austin. But sleep deprivation and white knuckles are a very cheap price to see the Horns finally pull out the win in Stillwater after witnessing three prior losses there. Game wrap will be coming closer to midnight tonight, but in the meantime here’s your Fast Break around college hoops…

New rankings came out yesterday, with Texas climbing to 12th in both polls. Baylor finally crawled into the AP poll at 25th, their first ranking since the late 1960’s. Unfortunately the coaches stiffed them with only 11 points, good enough for the equivalent of 32nd. K-State is also putting pressure on the Top 25 after its manhandling of A&M on Saturday, landing in the “others receiving votes” category of both rankings. Kansas sits in 2nd in both rankings, while the Aggies slipped to 16th in the ESPN/USA Today poll and 18th in the AP after two blowout losses to unranked opponents.

Joe Lunardi’s newest Bracketology moves Texas up the S-curve to a 3-seed, although at this point the city assignments are relatively meaningless. He’s got the Big 12 with 5 teams at the moment, and Oklahoma is sitting in the first group of eight teams that missed the cut. (NIT, holla!) Kansas is obviously still holding tight to a 1-seed, while A&M has dropped to an 8, Baylor holds a 6, and K-State is the 7-seed in UNC’s bracket.

This week’s blogpoll will be released tonight, so rather than post my own vote today and then the whole thing tomorrow, we’ll throw it all up here at once and open up the discussion. Needless to say, it was a very difficult week with 15 of last week’s 25 ranked teams losing at least once, so I’m sure there will be some head-scratching going on when all is said and done.