Big 12 Men's Basketball Tournament


The Big 12 Men's Basketball Tournament is the championship men's basketball tournament in the Big 12 Conference. It is a single-elimination tournament of four rounds, with the top six seeds getting byes in the first round. Seeding is based on regular season records.
The winner of the tournament receives the Big 12 Conference automatic bid to the NCAA Championship tournament.
No current Big 12 member besides Iowa State or Kansas has won the tournament since 2005, and those two schools have won 16 of 23 titles. The remaining current Big 12 schools only account for five additional tournament titles. No school from outside the original Big Eight Conference has ever won the tournament.
The tournament is set to be held at the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, Missouri until 2025.

History

The tournament has been held every year since the first full basketball season was completed in 1997. Since that time, it was held in Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Missouri in early March for every year up until 2003, and also in 2005. In 2003, 2004, and 2006 it was held at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas, and in 2007 it was held in the Ford Center at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. In 2008 it was again held in Kansas City, but this time at the Sprint Center.
The 2009 edition of the championship was held in Oklahoma City, with the event returning to Kansas City from 2010 through 2020. On October 24, 2018, it was announced that the Big 12 Tournament would stay in Kansas City through 2024, and on June 12, 2020, it was announced that it would stay in Kansas City through 2025. Kansas has won the most Big 12 postseason titles as well, winning 11 out of 23, while appearing in 14 championship games.

Tournament champions

Numbers in parentheses refer to each team's finish/seed in the tournament for that year. Teams are seeded in order of highest conference record. Tie-breakers are based on conference record starting with:

Tournament record

Championship game record