Here are our Week 13 Big 12 Women's Basketball Power Rankings, as voted on by our group of sports journalists and fans representing many of the 16 teams in the conference. What did this week tell us? It told us that next Wednesday's game in the Little Apple will give one team an edge in the conference standings.

Are we ready to put Houston in the elite tier of college basketball this season? Auburn and Duke have been staples at the top of our Power Rankings for several weeks, with Iowa State in the mix. And while Tennessee has faded,

Brendan Wenzel is TCU's only player shooting above 34% from 3-point range. He doesn't score too often (8.7 points per game) and is only 1-of-12 from deep in his last two games, he's one Texas Tech can't afford to let get hot. Wenzel also transferred to TCU after Jeff Linder left Wyoming to be an assistant at Tech.

TCU did just enough to catch Texas Tech's attention on Wednesday. Once the 22nd-ranked Red Raiders got their wake-up call, however, they settled back in as one of the hottest teams in the Big 12 Conference.