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
Classification	Division I
Season	2021–22
Teams	9
Site	T-Mobile Center Kansas City, Missouri
Champions	Kansas (11th title)
Winning coach	Bill Self (8th title)
MVP	Ochai Agbaji (Kansas)
Attendance	79,846 16,344 (championship)
Top scorer	Ochai Agbaji (Kansas) (56 points)
Television	ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU
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2021–22 Big 12 men's basketball standings

v t e	Conf.							Overall
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
† 2022 Big 12 Tournament winner *Oklahoma State was ineligible for both the 2022 Big 12 Tournament and the 2022 NCAA tournament due to postseason ban imposed by the NCAA. 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
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
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
	8	Kansas State	67			9	West Virginia	63
	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