They have now won eight straight Big 12 games and are up to No. 28 in NET and No. 30 in KenPom.
MixedNutz showed me a kenpom table sorted by conference games played since the date of Dean's return. Those parameters have us as tops in the conference and #4 in the country. Maybe some other bball nerds can confirm?
Being able to exclude the aTm abomination is a bit generous, but not unreasonable since motivation matters a lot when you're discussing 20yr olds. Anyway, I think it's silly that sportswriters rely so much on the front page of an advanced stats site but don't do any sorting to get a better picture of the current situation.