
The Big 12 is once again stacked with talented Mens basketball teams so expect Baylor, Iowa State, Kansas, Texas, and Texas Tech to be just a few of the top-ranked teams in the 2022 Big 12. “We could not be more excited to continue our tradition of excellence when hosting these tournaments. The Big 12 Mens Basketball Tournament will be a great event for basketball fans in Kansas City, and fans across the Conference who make the trip to KC. “Kansas City’s long affiliation with the Big 12 Conference entered an exciting new chapter in 2020 when we welcomed the women’s tournament back,” CEO of Kansas City Sports Commission Kathy Nelson explained in a Big 12 press release. Sundays Illinois-Ohio State Big Ten Tournament final finished as the top game of the college basketball season with a 2.2 rating and 3.68 million viewers on. Down from nearly a 13-hour drive to Orlando. It is a single-elimination tournament of four rounds, with the top six seeds getting byes in the first round. The Big 12 Conference features exciting, up-tempo college football with teams in the national championship hunt almost every season. The drive from the University of Cincinnati’s campus to T-Mobile Center is approximately 8.5 hours and 587 miles. The Big 12 Men's Basketball Tournament (known since its inception in 1997 under sponsorship agreements as the Phillips 66 Big 12 Men's Basketball Tournament) is the championship men's basketball tournament in the Big 12 Conference. Instead of taking a yearly trip to Orlando, the Bearcats will travel to Kansas City every March with a chance to compete among arguably the nation’s best basketball conference. The Big 12 Conference wrapped up its 2021-22 business meetings with the following announcements ➡️ /TlVxa9tgvl “As we prepare to welcome four new schools in the coming years, I’m confident Kansas City will continue to deliver a first-class championship experience for our athletes, administrators, fans and partners,” Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby said at the spring meetings this week per The Oklahoman. The annual men’s tournament has been played at the T-Mobile Center every year since 2010.

Upsets happened weekly, the conference routinely rated out as the. There were several notable topics discussed in the recent Big 12 spring meetings including a two-year extension to keep the men’s and women’s basketball tournaments in Kansas City, Missouri through 2027. All year long, the Big 12 Conference proved itself to be the most difficult conference in the country. By the fall of 2023, Cincinnati is expected to join the 10-team conference alongside newest members BYU, Houston and UCF.īig 12 and Kansas City Sports Commission Announce Two-Year Extension for Basketball Championships #Big12WBB x #Big12MBBĬincinnati Basketball: Kansas City will host Big 12 Tournament through 2027

The Bearcats basketball program is hoping to challenge for an AAC Tournament championship this season but the move to the Big 12 Conference is coming soon.

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