2021 Big 12 men's basketball tournament

The 2021 Phillips 66 Big 12 men's basketball tournament was a postseason men's basketball tournament for the Big 12 Conference. It was played from March 10 to 13, in Kansas City, Missouri at the T-Mobile Center.^[1] The winner received the conference's automatic bid to the 2021 NCAA tournament. Texas defeated Oklahoma State in the championship to earn their first Big 12 Tournament Championship and third Conference tournament Championship overall. Texas became the first school that was not a member of the Big Eight Conference to win the tournament.

2021 Big 12 men's basketball tournament
Classification	Division I
Season	2020–21
Teams	10
Site	T-Mobile Center Kansas City, Missouri
Champions	Texas (1st title)
Winning coach	Shaka Smart (1st title)
MVP	Matt Coleman III (Texas)
Attendance	17,307 3,525 (championship)
Top scorer	Cade Cunningham (Oklahoma State) (71 points)
Television	ESPN, ESPN2
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2020–21 Big 12 men's basketball standings

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
No. 1 Baylor	13	–	1		.929			28	–	2		.933
No. 16 Kansas	12	–	6		.667			21	–	9		.700
No. 21 Texas †	11	–	6		.647			19	–	8		.704
No. 18 West Virginia	11	–	6		.647			19	–	10		.655
No. 19 Oklahoma State	11	–	7		.611			21	–	9		.700
No. 22 Texas Tech	9	–	8		.529			18	–	11		.621
Oklahoma	9	–	8		.529			16	–	11		.593
TCU	5	–	11		.313			12	–	14		.462
Kansas State	4	–	14		.222			9	–	20		.310
Iowa State	0	–	18		.000			2	–	22		.083
† 2021 Big 12 Tournament winner Rankings from AP poll

Seeds

All ten teams participated in the tournament. The top six 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. What tiebreakers were used for each tie is included in the table.

Seed	School	Conf	Tiebreaker 1	Tiebreaker 2	Tiebreaker 3
1	Baylor	13–1
2	Kansas	12–6
3	Texas	11–6	1–1 vs. West Virginia	0–1 vs. Baylor	2–0 vs. Kansas
4	West Virginia	11–6	1–1 vs. Texas	0–1 vs. Baylor	1–1 vs. Kansas
5	Oklahoma State	11–7
6	Texas Tech	9–8	2–0 vs. Oklahoma
7	Oklahoma	9–8	0–2 vs. Texas Tech
8	TCU	5–11
9	Kansas State	4–14
10	Iowa State	0–18

Schedule

All games had limited attendance due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Game	Time	Matchup^#	Final score	Television	Attendance
First round – Wednesday, March 10
1	5:30 pm	No. 8 TCU vs No. 9 Kansas State	50–71	ESPN	N/A*
2	8:30 pm	No. 7 Oklahoma vs No. 10 Iowa State	79–73
Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 11
3	10:30 am	No. 4 West Virginia vs No. 5 Oklahoma State	69–72	ESPN	3,491
4	1:30 pm	No. 1 Baylor vs No. 9 Kansas State	74–68
5	5:30 pm	No. 2 Kansas vs No. 7 Oklahoma	69–62		3,510
6	8:30 pm	No. 3 Texas vs No. 6 Texas Tech	67–66	ESPN2
Semifinals – Friday, March 12
7	5:30 pm	No. 1 Baylor vs No. 5 Oklahoma State	74–83	ESPN	3,298
8	8:30 pm	No. 2 Kansas vs No. 3 Texas	Cancelled^[A]
Championship – Saturday, March 13
9	5:00 pm	No. 3 Texas vs No. 5 Oklahoma State	91–86	ESPN	3,525
Game times in CST. No.-Rankings denote tournament seed

*No official attendance announced

Bracket

	First round Wednesday, March 10					Quarterfinals Thursday, March 11					Semifinals Friday, March 12					Championship Saturday, March 13
						1	Baylor	74
						9	Kansas State	68
	8	TCU	50
	9	Kansas State	71
											1	Baylor	74
											5	Oklahoma State	83
						4	West Virginia	69
						5	Oklahoma State	72
																5	Oklahoma State	86
																3	Texas	91
						2	Kansas	69
						7	Oklahoma	62
	7	Oklahoma	79
	10	Iowa State	73
											2	Kansas^[A]
											3	Texas
						3	Texas	67
						6	Texas Tech	66

Notes

1. Kansas withdrew from the Big 12 Tournament after a player tested positive for COVID-19, which led to the game being cancelled, and Texas advancing in the tournament.^[2]

References

1. "Phillips 66 Big 12 Men's Basketball Championship". Big12Sports.com.
2. "Kansas vs. Texas Big 12 Championship Semifinal Game Has Been Canceled". big12sports.com. Retrieved March 12, 2021.