On Wednesday, the Big 12 kicked off their men’s basketball championship. Wednesday’s game weren’t much of a surprise results-wise.

Texas Tech beat West Virginia, 71 - 69. Game notes from Big12Sports:

Texas Tech improved to 13-16 all-time in the Big 12 Championship and 8-7 in first round games, while West Virginia fell to 0-1 in Big 12 Championship history. TTU is now 1-3 all-time against the Mountaineers and 2-1 as the No. 9 seed in the Championship.

Texas Tech advances to play Kansas in Thursday’s quarterfinals. TTU dropped both regular season contests against the Jayhawks this season, falling 60-46 in Lubbock (March 12, 2013) and 79-42 in Lawrence (March 4, 2013).

The two-point victory was the closest contest the Red Raiders have played in the Big 12 Championship. It also marked their first win since 2010.

Texas beat TCU, 70-57. Game notes from Big12Sports:

Texas improved to 22-16 all-time in the Big 12 Championship and 4-1 in first-round games, while TCU fell to 0-1 in Big 12 Championship history. UT is now 3-0 in postseason play against the Horned Frogs, defeating them twice in the Southwest Conference Tournament (1989 and 1994).

The Longhorns won their first tournament game for the eighth year in a row, and head coach Rick Barnes added to his win total (20) as winningest coach in Championship history – two more than second-place Bill Self of Kansas.

Texas advances to play No. 2 Kansas State in Thursday’s quarterfinals. The Longhorns dropped both regular season contests against the Wildcats this season, falling 83-57 in Manhattan (1-30-13) and 81-69 in Austin (2-23-13).

The new bracket looks like this:

Oklahoma takes on Iowa State Thursday morning, while Kansas/Texas Tech will play in the afternoon. The night games tonight are Texas/Kansas State and Baylor/Oklahoma State.

I am thinking that maybe WVU, but not so much TCU is having conference-jumping remorse after two major sports have finished up the season. Most of their fanbase thought they were going to come to the Big 12 and dominate. Oh.

Now that conference play is officially over in the Big 12, its tourney time! The Big 12 tournament kicks off on Wednesday, March 13th in Kansas City at the Sprint Center.

Those teams that didn’t qualify for quarterfinals will square off on Wednesday. The four teams that didn’t qualify include: West Virginia, Texas, TCU and Texas Tech. The bracket:

 Notice the bracket background picture is of Kansas. It’s like they are predicting fate. The favorite to win at the moment is actually not the Rock Chalk, it happens to be Kansas State. Kansas has had a meltdown or two so far this season, but when you look at predictions of the NCAA tournament, quite a few sports outlets have them going to the Final Four. Shocker.

All games will be televised on the Big 12 Network/ESPN. Come back to the Neutral Zone for a daily recap of the happenings of the Big 12 tournament.

Totally bro-ing it up in purple, you guys! (Screenshot via ESPN3)

TCU is off to a 3-0 start after defeating Virginia Saturday afternoon, 27-7.

The Horned Frogs got off to a start in the first quarter when Pachall completed a 68-yard touchdown pass to Brandon Carter, giving TCU the 7-0 lead.

Pachall followed up in the second quarter with a six-yard touchdown pass to Josh Boyce. With the 18th career touchdown catch for Boyce, he became the all-time leader at TCU for touchdown catches.

Pachall had one more TD pass late in the fourth when he completed one to LaDarius Brown for 17-yards. Pachall, who has been solid for TCU this season, completed 21-of-32 passes for 305 yards.

Carter had five catches for 128 yards.

Virginia’s lone touchdown of the game came in the fourth quarter when Phillip Sims completed a five-yard TD pass to E.J. Scott.

Michael Rocco started the game for Virginia, but had a rough outing, completing 13-of-28 for 126 yards and two interceptions.

TCU has gotten off to a strong start with their win against Virginia, as well as last week against Kansas.

The Horned Frogs take on SMU next week and continue their Big 12 season at home against Iowa State on Oct. 6.

Virginia falls to 2-2 for the season and will play Louisiana Tech next week.

Four Big XII teams are started their road to Omaha on Friday, competing in the 64-team Regional brackets.

Oklahoma was scheduled to take on Appalachian State in Charlottesville, Virginia but was delayed due to severe weather in the area. The entire Charlottesville Regional was postponed till Saturday. As reported on Ride Schooner, Ride on Friday: Army, Virginia and Appalachian State are in the bracket with them.

Big XII Championship winner Missouri, is in the Tuscon Regional. They took on No. 1 Arizona late Friday night and was pounded by Arizona. Mizzou will play in the elimination game on Sunday against New Mexico State.  Also in their bracket is Louisville and New Mexico State.

Texas A&M is hosting the College Station Regional and took on No. 4 seeded Dayton. The Aggies beat Dayton 4-1, with Michael Wacha pitching 7 shutout innings.  Future conference mate, TCU is also in the bracket and took on the No. 3 seeded Ole Miss, who are also the SEC champions. The Horned Frogs lost to the Rebels, 6-2.

Baylor is hosting the Waco Regional where they took on No. 4 Oral Roberts. In a shocker, Oral Roberts defeated Baylor 4-2,  snapping the Bears 22-game home field winning streak. DBU and UT-Arlington are in the same bracket. DBU shut out UTA, 10-0 on Friday.So Baylor will take on UTA next.

In a press conference on Wednesday, Texas Christian University announced that 17 students, a long with 4 football players have been arrested on drug charges. Three students were arrested on campus, the 14 others were caught off campus.

The investigation has been going on for about 6 months, where the Fort Worth Police Department worked along side with TCU campus police. The students that were arrested on Wednesday were involved with marijuana, cocaine, Ecstasy and prescription drugs. The names have yet to be released, but will become known sometime Wednesday afternoon.

As of right now, authorities are saying that the sting operation involves students from 3 separate fraternities, and could lead to more arrests later on today. Of course it will, these kids are going to be throwing people under the bus like crazy. Authorities are also saying that the investigation was prompted by concerned students and parents.

Maybe they were just really, really excited about being in auto-qualifying football conference, since the Big XII schedules came out yesterday. Whatever it is, some kids are in a lot of trouble in downtown Fort Worth.