The top two players in the NBA draft are playing here in Kansas City at the Big 12 tournament: freshmen A.J. Dybantsa of BYU and Kansas’ Darryn Peterson. The Big 12 has produced three overall No. 1 picks — Oklahoma’s Blake Griffin in 2009, Kansas’ Andrew Wiggins in 2014 and Oklahoma State’s Cade Cunningham in 2021 — in its three-decade history.