The 2012 Phillips 66 Big 12 Men's Basketball Championship was held at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Missouri from March 7 until March 10, 2012. Due to a major conference realignment that significantly impacted the Big 12, It was the first tournament with 10 teams participating. After the 2010–11 season, Colorado left for the Pac-12 and Nebraska joined the Big Ten. It was also the final appearance in this event for Texas A&M and Missouri before they joined the Southeastern Conference for the 2012–13 season. The conference will continue to have 10 schools in that season, as TCU and West Virginia will join the Big 12, respectively from the Mountain West Conference and Big East Conference.
The tournament, and the automatic bid to the NCAA tournament that went with it, was won by one of the departing members, Missouri.
Radio Coverage All teams were able to have their local radio media groups carry their games in the Big 12 Tournament. Additionally, the tournament semifinals and championship game were broadcast on select regional ESPN Radio affiliates and nationally on ESPNRadio.com. This was a change from years past, in which ESPN Radio would broadcast the games nationally. However due to the ACC's contract with ESPN now being in effect, ESPN Radio affiliates must choose whether they want to carry the Big 12 semis and championship or carry the entire ACC Tournament.
Seeding The Tournament consisted of a 10 team single-elimination tournament with the top 6 seeds receiving a bye. 2012 Big 12 Men's Basketball Tournament seeds Seed School Conf. Over. Tiebreaker1 Kansas ‡#16–232–72 Missouri #14–430–53 Iowa State #12–623–111–1 vs. BU; 1–1 vs. KU4 Baylor #12–630–81–1 vs. BU; 0–2 vs. KU5 Kansas State #10–822–116 Texas #9–920–147 7–1115–188 Oklahoma 5–1315–169 Texas A&M 4–1414–1810 Texas Tech 1–178–23‡ – Big 12 Conference regular season champions, and tournament No. 1 seed.# – Received a single-bye in the conference tournament.Overall records include all games played in the Big 12 Conference tournament.
Schedule The semi-finals were produced by, and aired on, the Big 12 Network in Big 12 Network territories. However, they were aired on ESPNU for the rest of the nation. All games were available via streaming through Watch ESPN's ESPN3 except in Big 12 Network territories, where games that did not air on ESPN or ESPN2 were blacked out.
SessionGameTimeMatchupTelevisionAttendanceFirst Round – Wednesday, March 71 1 6:00 pm #9 Texas A&M 62 vs #8 Oklahoma 53 Big 12 Network18,972 2 8:30 pm #7 Oklahoma State 76 vs #10 Texas Tech 60Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 82 3 11:30 am #4 Baylor 82 vs #5 Kansas State 74 ESPN218,972 4 2:00 pm #1 Kansas 83 vs #9 Texas A&M 663 5 6:00 pm #2 Missouri 88 vs #7 Oklahoma State 70 Big 12 Network18,972 6 8:30 pm #6 Texas 71 vs #3 Iowa State 65Semifinals – Friday, March 94 7 6:30 pm #4 Baylor 81 vs #1 Kansas 72 Big 12 Network & ESPNU18,972 8 9:00 pm #2 Missouri 81 vs #6 Texas 67Final – Saturday, March 105 9 5:00 pm #2 Missouri 90 vs #4 Baylor 75 ESPN19,006 Game times in CT. #-Rankings denote tournament seed
Bracket
All Times Central
Game summaries
All-Tournament Team Most Outstanding Player – Kim English, Missouri Player Team Position ClassKim EnglishMissouriSr.GPerry Jones IIIBaylorSo.FBrady HeslipBaylorSo.GPhil PresseyMissouriSo.GJ’Covan BrownTexasJr.G
See also 2012 Big 12 Conference women's basketball tournament 2012 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament 2011–12 NCAA Division I men's basketball rankings
References
External links Official 2012 Big 12 Men's Basketball Tournament Bracket