2022 Big 12 men's basketball tournament

The 2022 Big 12 men's basketball tournament was a postseason men's basketball tournament for teams of the Big 12 Conference. It was played March 9–12, 2022, in Kansas City, Missouri, at the T-Mobile Center.[1] Kansas won the tournament, their 12th Big 12 Tournament championship, to earn the conference's automatic berth in the 2022 NCAA tournament. The tournament was sponsored by Phillips 66.

2022 Big 12 men's basketball tournament
ClassificationDivision I
Season2021–22
Teams9
SiteT-Mobile Center
Kansas City, Missouri
ChampionsKansas (11th title)
Winning coachBill Self (8th title)
MVPOchai Agbaji (Kansas)
Attendance79,846
16,344 (championship)
Top scorerOchai Agbaji (Kansas)
(56 points)
TelevisionESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU
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2023 →
2021–22 Big 12 men's basketball standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT
No. 3 Kansas 14 4   .778 34 6   .850
No. 4 Baylor 14 4   .778 27 7   .794
No. 12 Texas Tech 12 6   .667 27 10   .730
No. 25 Texas 10 8   .556 22 12   .647
TCU 8 10   .444 21 13   .618
Oklahoma State* 8 10   .444 15 15   .500
Iowa State 7 11   .389 22 13   .629
Oklahoma 7 11   .389 19 16   .543
Kansas State 6 12   .333 14 17   .452
West Virginia 4 14   .222 16 17   .485
*Oklahoma State was ineligible for both the 2022 Big 12 Tournament and the 2022 NCAA tournament due to postseason ban imposed by the NCAA.
2022 Big 12 Tournament winner
Rankings from AP poll

Seeds

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For the second time in conference history and the first time since the conference became a 10-team conference, the entire conference did not participate in the tournament. Oklahoma State did not participate due to its postseason ban.[2] The only other time this happened was in 2004, when Baylor missed the tournament.

The top seven teams earned a first-round bye. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. The first tiebreaker, as is standard in most sports, is head-to-head results between the tied teams. The second tiebreaker is taking the head-to-head results against each team in the conference beginning with the first-place team and working down until there is no longer a tie.[3]

Seed School Conf Tiebreaker 1 Tiebreaker 2 Tiebreaker 3 Tiebreaker 4 Tiebreaker 5
1 Kansas 14–4 1–1 vs Baylor 1–1 vs Texas Tech
2 Baylor 14–4 1–1 vs Kansas 0–2 vs Texas Tech
3 Texas Tech 12–6
4 Texas 10–8
5 TCU 8–10
N/A Oklahoma State 8–10 Ineligible, would be the 6th seed if eligible
6 Iowa State 7–11 1–1 vs Oklahoma 0–2 vs Kansas 0–2 vs Baylor 1–1 vs Texas Tech 1–1 vs Texas
7 Oklahoma 7–11 1–1 vs Iowa State 0–2 vs Kansas 0–2 vs Baylor 1–1 vs Texas Tech 0–2 vs Texas
8 Kansas State 6–12
9 West Virginia 4–14

Schedule

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Game Time* Matchup# Final score Television Attendance
First round – Wednesday, March 9
1 6:00 p.m. No. 8 Kansas State vs No. 9 West Virginia 67–73 ESPNU 15,295
Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 10
2 11:30 a.m. No. 4 Texas vs No. 5 TCU 60–65 ESPN2 15,845
3 2:00 p.m. No. 1 Kansas vs No. 9 West Virginia 87–63 ESPN
4 6:00 p.m. No. 2 Baylor vs No. 7 Oklahoma 67–72 ESPN 15,805
5 8:30 p.m. No. 3 Texas Tech vs No. 6 Iowa State 72–41 ESPN2
Semifinals – Friday, March 11
6 6:00 p.m. No. 5 TCU vs No. 1 Kansas 62–75 ESPN2 16,557
7 8:30 p.m. No. 7 Oklahoma vs No. 3 Texas Tech 55–56
Championship – Saturday, March 12
8 5:00 p.m. No. 1 Kansas vs No. 3 Texas Tech 74–65 ESPN 16,344
*Game times in CST. #-Rankings denote tournament seed

Bracket

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First round
Wednesday, March 9
Quarterfinals
Thursday, March 10
Semifinals
Friday, March 11
Championship
Saturday, March 12
1 Kansas 87
8 Kansas State 67 9 West Virginia 63
9 West Virginia 73 1 Kansas 75
5 TCU 62
4 Texas 60
5 TCU 65
1 Kansas 74
3 Texas Tech 65
2 Baylor 67
7 Oklahoma 72
7 Oklahoma 55
3 Texas Tech 56
3 Texas Tech 72
6 Iowa State 41

References

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  1. ^ "Phillips 66 Big 12 Men's Basketball Championship". Big12Sports.com.
  2. ^ "Oklahoma State: NCAA decision to deny appeal, uphold Cowboys' postseason ban 'unprecedented,' system 'broken'". ESPN.com.
  3. ^ "Tiebreaking procedures". Big12Sports.com.