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The Big 12 has hardly been mentioned in any playoff discussions.Yet Baylor and West Virginia remain very much alive for a spot in the postseason.The Bears (6-0, 3-0 Big 12) and Mountaineers (5-0, 2-0) have quietly racked up impressive seasons so far and theyre each shooting up the Top 25 .Baylor moved from 11th to ninth this week after thrashing Kansas 49-7. West Virginias 48-17 win at Texas Tech helped it jump from 20th all the way to No. 12.Weve still got some things we can get better at ... but being 6-0 right now, I think at the start of the season, no matter how you got to it, youd feel pretty good about that, Baylor acting head coach Jim Grobe said.If both keep winning, it would set up a de facto Big 12 title game -- possibly for a playoff spot -- in the season finale in Morgantown on Dec. 3.But should either team make it to December unscathed, theyll have earned it.Baylor has trips to Texas (3-3, 1-2) and No. 16 Oklahoma (4-2, 3-0) in the next month. The Mountaineers, second only to Baylor among Big 12 teams in scoring defense at 19.4 points per game, host TCU (4-2, 2-1) on Saturday. West Virginia then goes to Oklahoma State (4-2, 2-1), and it also has to face the Longhorns and Sooners.They play hard. They play physical, and they come downhill at you, Texas Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury said of West Virginias defense.BONDS OUT FOR BAYLORGrobe said Monday that the Bears are hoping to get a medical redshirt for defensive tackle Byron Bonds, who hasnt played this season because of a knee injury. Bonds, who played in eight games in 2015, was expected to start for Baylor his season.I dont think were counting on getting him back. He just didnt come back from his injury like we had hoped, Grobe said.LONGHORNS DEFENSE STEPS UPTexass defense, which had allowed 50, 49 and 45 points in a three-game skid, did much better in last weekends 27-6 home win over Iowa State. 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Cheap Jordan From China . - Connor McDavid scored 53 seconds into overtime as the Erie Otters came from behind to defeat the visiting Guelph Storm 4-3 on Saturday in Ontario Hockey League action.Chicago Blackhawks defenceman Duncan Keith had a disciplinary hearing with the NHL for his high stick to the face of Los Angeles Kings forward Jeff Carter during Game 3 of the Western Conference final. Keith clipped Carter during an exchange well behind the play in the second period. After Carter took a short hack at Keiths hand while the defenceman bent down to pick up his glove, Keith responded by skating behind Carter and hitting him in the face with a one-handed swing of his stick, dropping Carter to the ice. "Yeah, it was accidental," Keith said after the game. "Obviously, I wanted to give him a tap, but not where I got him. I felt bad. Im glad to see that he came back. It was just a scuffle. It was an accident." The injury forced Carter, who wears a visor, to miss the Kings ensuing four-minute power play, which went nowhere. Carter, who scored two goals in the Kings Stanley Cup-clinching victory over New Jersey last year, has six goals in this post-season, sharing the Kings lead with Justin Williams. It appeared that Keith attempted to apologiize to Carter on the ice after Carter returned to the game.dddddddddddd Kings coach Darryl Sutter thought Keith got off easily with a double minor after opening a gash on Carters face during the Blackhawks 3-1 loss. "I didnt think it was a four-minute penalty," Sutter said. "Thought it was a wrong call. ... Thats three head injuries now in the playoffs for us. I dont know how to answer it. Its retaliation with a stick. Its not a high stick. Whatever they want to call it, theyll call it. Dont even need video." The Kings lost centre Jarret Stoll for six games in the second round with an apparent concussion from an illegal hit by San Joses Raffi Torres. Stoll returned for the conference finals, but the Kings then lost leading scorer Mike Richards for the past two games after a big hit late in Game 1 from Chicagos Dave Bolland. Carter led the Western Conference with 26 goals during the regular season. His midseason arrival from Columbus last year was a factor in the Kings improbable surge to their first Stanley Cup title. ' ' '