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 | |
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| Classification | Division I |
| Season | 2021–22 |
| Teams | 9 |
| Site | T-Mobile Center Kansas City, Missouri |
| Champions | Kansas |
| Winning coach | Bill Self (9th title) |
| MVP | Ochai Agbaji (Kansas) |
| Television | ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU |
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| 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
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 |
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| 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
| Game | Time* | Matchup# | Final score | Television | Attendance |
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| 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
| First round Wednesday, March 9 | Quarterfinals Thursday, March 10 | Semifinals Friday, March 11 | Championship Saturday, March 12 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Kansas | 87 | |||||||||||||||||
| 9 | West Virginia | 63 | |||||||||||||||||
| 8 | Kansas State | 67 | |||||||||||||||||
| 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
- "Phillips 66 Big 12 Men's Basketball Championship". Big12Sports.com.
- "Oklahoma State: NCAA decision to deny appeal, uphold Cowboys' postseason ban 'unprecedented,' system 'broken'". ESPN.com.
- "Tiebreaking procedures". Big12Sports.com.