2023 Big 12 men's basketball tournament

The 2023 Big 12 Men's Basketball Tournament was a postseason men's basketball tournament for the Big 12 Conference. It was played from March 8 to 11 in Kansas City, Missouri at the T-Mobile Center.^[1][2] Texas won the tournament to earn the conference's automatic bid to the 2023 NCAA Tournament. The tournament was sponsored by Phillips 66.

2023 Big 12 men's basketball tournament
Classification	Division I
Season	2022–23
Teams	10
Site	T-Mobile Center Kansas City, Missouri
Champions	Texas (2nd title)
Winning coach	Rodney Terry (1st title)
MVP	Dylan Disu (Texas)
Attendance	90,110 17,763 (championship)
Top scorer	Jalen Wilson (Kansas) (71 points)
Television	ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU
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2022–23 Big 12 men's basketball standings

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
No. 4 Kansas	13	–	5		.722			28	–	8		.778
No. 5 Texas †	12	–	6		.667			29	–	9		.763
No. 15 Kansas State	11	–	7		.611			26	–	10		.722
No. 11 Baylor	11	–	7		.611			23	–	11		.676
Iowa State	9	–	9		.500			19	–	14		.576
No. 22 TCU	9	–	9		.500			22	–	13		.629
Oklahoma State	8	–	10		.444			20	–	16		.556
West Virginia	7	–	11		.389			19	–	15		.559
Texas Tech	5	–	13		.278			16	–	16		.500
Oklahoma	5	–	13		.278			15	–	17		.469
† 2023 Big 12 tournament winner Rankings from AP poll

Seeds

All ten teams will participate in the tournament. It will be the final season with the 10 team bracket format as the Big 12 will expand to 14 teams for the 2023–24 season before going to 16 in 2024–25. The top six teams received a first-round bye.

Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.^[3]

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

Schedule

Game	Time*	Matchup^#	Final score	Television†	Attendance
First round – Wednesday, March 8
1	6:00 p.m.	No. 8 West Virginia vs No. 9 Texas Tech	78–62	ESPNU	17,702
2	8:30 p.m.	No. 7 Oklahoma State vs No. 10 Oklahoma	57–49
Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 9
3	11:30 a.m.	No. 4 Baylor vs No. 5 Iowa State	72–78	ESPN	18,034
4	2:00 p.m.	No. 1 Kansas vs No. 8 West Virginia	78–61
5	6:00 p.m.	No. 2 Texas vs No. 7 Oklahoma State	61–47	ESPN2	17,476
6	8:30 p.m.	No. 3 Kansas State vs No. 6 TCU	67–80
Semifinals – Friday, March 10
7	6:00 p.m.	No. 1 Kansas vs No. 5 Iowa State	71–58	ESPN	19,135
8	8:30 p.m.	No. 2 Texas vs No. 6 TCU	66–60
Championship – Saturday, March 11
9	5:00 p.m.	No. 1 Kansas vs No. 2 Texas	56–76	ESPN	17,763
*Game times in CST. #-Rankings denote tournament seed. †All games will be simulcast on ESPN+

Bracket

	First round Wednesday, March 8 ESPNU					Quarterfinals Thursday, March 9 ESPN/ESPN2					Semifinals Friday, March 10 ESPN					Championship Saturday, March 11 ESPN
						1	Kansas	78
						8	West Virginia	61
	8	West Virginia	78
	9	Texas Tech	62
											1	Kansas	71
											5	Iowa State	58
						4	Baylor	72
						5	Iowa State	78
																1	Kansas	56
																2	Texas	76
						2	Texas	61
						7	Oklahoma State	47
	7	Oklahoma State	57
	10	Oklahoma	49
											2	Texas	66
											6	TCU	60
						3	Kansas State	67
						6	TCU	80

All-Tournament Team

Most Outstanding Player – Dylan Disu, Texas

Player	Team
Dylan Disu	Texas
Marcus Carr	Texas
Sir'Jabari Rice	Texas
Jalen Wilson	Kansas
Dajuan Harris Jr.	Kansas
Mike Miles Jr.	TCU

References

1. "Big 12 Conference". big12sports.com. Retrieved January 2, 2023.
2. "2023 Phillips 66 Big 12 Men's Basketball Championship | Visit KC". www.visitkc.com. December 13, 2016. Retrieved January 2, 2023.
3. "Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship Seeding and Tiebreaker Procedures". big12sports.com. Retrieved January 2, 2023.