I've seen it ranked between 7th and 12th by various basketball metrics. Incredibly difficult schedule for everyone in the Big 12.

Huggins offended a lot of West Coast people early in the Fall when he said Gonzaga would get a wakeup call if they joined the Big 12. As with most things by the media, his comments were taken out of context. He never said they couldn't compete in the Big 12, just that it's a whole different world when you play ranked team after ranked team in conference play for 2 months with no nights off. The Zags, of course, try to make up for it by having a bruising non-conference schedule, but then basically go dormant (to no fault of their own) for a couple of months in the WCC with the exception of Saint Mary's from time to time.