Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective
2024–25 Big 12 Conference men's basketball season
Sports season From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Remove ads
The 2024–25 Big 12 men's basketball season began with the start of the 2024–25 NCAA Division I men's basketball season in November. Regular season conference play will begin in December 2024 and conclude in March 2025. The 2025 Big 12 men's basketball tournament was held March 11–15, 2025, at the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, Missouri.
This was the first season for the Big 12 Conference with 16 teams after the addition of Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado and Utah, plus the departure of Oklahoma and Texas.
Remove ads
Coaches
Summarize
Perspective
Coaching changes
Head coaches
Note: Stats are through the beginning of the season. All stats and records are from time at current school only.
† All of the Jayhawks' postseason victories and 7 of their regular-season wins were vacated from the 2017–18 season. Officially, their record for the season 16–8 overall and 3–5 in conference play. The Jayhawks' regular-season Big 12 championship and their Big 12 tournament championship were vacated. The Jayhawks' entire NCAA tournament appearance from the season was vacated including their Final Four appearance.
‡ Craig Smith was fired on February 24, 2025 after 27 games into the 2024−25 season. He finished with a record of 65−62 and zero NCAA tournament appearances. Assistant coach Josh Eilert was named interim head coach for the remainder of the season.[6]
# Darian DeVries took the Indiana job on March 18, 2025 after their season was over. He finished with a record of 19–13 and zero NCAA tournament appearances.[7]
Big 12 media day
Big 12 Men's Basketball Media day was held on Wednesday, October 23 at T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, Missouri,[8] with coverage on ESPNU and ESPN+.[9]
Teams and representatives attending were as follows:
Remove ads
Preseason
Summarize
Perspective
The Big 12 preseason coaches poll was released: October 10, 2024. All awards were voted on by the league's 16 head coaches, who could not vote for their own team or players.
Big 12 Preseason Poll
Pre-Season All-Big 12 Team
- First Team
- Second Team
- Player of the Year: Hunter Dickinson, Kansas
- Co-Newcomer of the Year: Jeremy Roach, Baylor & Coleman Hawkins, Kansas State
- Freshman of the Year: V. J. Edgecombe, Baylor
Recruiting classes
Preseason watchlists
Below is a table of notable preseason watch lists.
Preseason All-American teams
AP[25] | Blue Ribbon 1st Team[26] | Blue Ribbon 3rd Team[26] | Blue Ribbon 4th Team[26] | SI 1st Team[27] | SI 2nd Team[27] | SN 2nd Team[28] | SN 3rd Team[28] | |
LJ Cryer | ![]() |
|||||||
Hunter Dickinson | ![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
||||
V. J. Edgecombe | ![]() | |||||||
Caleb Love | ![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() | ||||
Tamin Lipsey | ![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
|||||
J'Wan Roberts | ![]() |
Preseason national polls/ratings
Remove ads
Regular season
Summarize
Perspective
The Conference match ups for each school were announced on June 27, 2024. The full Big 12 schedule on September 26, 2024.[39]
Conference matrix
Thru 2024−25 Regular Season.
Points scored
Note: Through 2025 season.[40]
Big East-Big 12 Battle
Multi-Team Events
Big 12 Players of the Week
Team Total
Midseason watchlists
Below is a table of notable Midseason watch lists.
Player | Wooden[59] | Naismith | Cousy[60] | West[61] | Malone[62] | Abdul-Jabbar[63] | Robertson[64] |
Hunter Dickinson | ![]() |
![]() |
![]() | ||||
V. J. Edgecombe | ![]() |
||||||
Keshon Gilbert | ![]() |
![]() |
![]() | ||||
Curtis Jones | ![]() |
![]() | |||||
Caleb Love | ![]() |
![]() | |||||
Norchad Omier | ![]() |
![]() | |||||
Emanuel Sharp | ![]() | ||||||
Javon Small | ![]() |
![]() | |||||
JT Toppin | ![]() |
||||||
Darrion Williams | ![]() |
Coaching Midseason watch lists.
Player | Naismith[65] |
Grant McCasland | ![]() |
Kelvin Sampson | ![]() |
Final watchlists
Below is a table of notable Midseason watch lists.
Player | Wooden[66] | Naismith | Naismith DPOY[67] | West[68] | Malone[69] | Robertson |
V. J. Edgecombe | ![]() |
|||||
Tamin Lipsey | ![]() |
|||||
Caleb Love | ![]() |
|||||
JT Toppin | ![]() |
|||||
Joseph Tugler | ![]() |
Remove ads
Rankings
Increase in ranking | ||
Decrease in ranking | ||
Not ranked previous week | ||
т | Tied with another team in rankings |
Remove ads
Big 12 vs other conferences
Summarize
Perspective
Record against ranked non-conference opponents
This is a list of games against ranked opponents only (rankings from the AP Poll at time of the game):
† denotes neutral site game
Record vs other conferences
The Big 12 had a record of 134–38 in non-conference play during the regular season. The Big 12 had a record of 18–11 during tournament play.
Remove ads
Postseason
Summarize
Perspective
Big 12 tournament
- The 2025 Big 12 Men's Basketball tournament was played March 11–15 2025, at T-Mobile Center, Kansas City, MO[70]
Bracket
First round Tuesday, March 11 | Second round Wednesday, March 12 | Quarterfinals Thursday, March 13 | Semifinals Friday, March 14 | Championship Saturday, March 15 | |||||||||||||||||||
1 | Houston | 77 | |||||||||||||||||||||
8 | West Virginia | 60 | 16 | Colorado | 68 | ||||||||||||||||||
9 | TCU | 67 | 16 | Colorado | 67 | 1 | Houston | 74 | |||||||||||||||
16 | Colorado | 69 | 4 | BYU | 54 | ||||||||||||||||||
4 | BYU | 96 | |||||||||||||||||||||
5 | Iowa State | 76 | 5 | Iowa State | 92 | ||||||||||||||||||
12 | Oklahoma State | 68 | 13 | Cincinnati | 56 | 1 | Houston | 72 | |||||||||||||||
13 | Cincinnati | 87 | 3 | Arizona | 64 | ||||||||||||||||||
2 | Texas Tech | 76 | |||||||||||||||||||||
7 | Baylor | 70 | 7 | Baylor | 74 | ||||||||||||||||||
10 | Kansas State | 71 | 10 | Kansas State | 56 | 2 | Texas Tech | 80 | |||||||||||||||
15 | Arizona State | 66 | 3 | Arizona | 86 | ||||||||||||||||||
3 | Arizona | 88 | |||||||||||||||||||||
6 | Kansas | 98* | 6 | Kansas | 77 | ||||||||||||||||||
11 | Utah | 72 | 14 | UCF | 94 | ||||||||||||||||||
14 | UCF | 87 | |||||||||||||||||||||
* Indicates overtime game
NCAA Tournament
NIT
CBC
Remove ads
Honors and awards
Summarize
Perspective
All-Big 12 awards and teams
Honorable Mention: Tobe Awaka (Arizona), Henri Veesaar (Arizona) Robert Wright (Baylor), Egor Demin (BYU), Darius Johnson (UCF), Jizzle James (Cincinnati), Julian Hammond III (Colorado), Emanuel Sharp (Houston), Dajuan Harris Jr. (Kansas), David N’Guessan (Kansas State), Bryce Thompson (Oklahoma State), Noah Reynolds (TCU), Ernest Udeh Jr. (TCU), Gabe Madsen (Utah)
All-Americans
To earn "consensus" status, a player must win honors based on a point system computed from the four different all-America teams. The point system consists of three points for first team, two points for second team and one point for third team. No honorable mention or fourth team or lower are used in the computation. The top five totals plus ties are first team and the next five plus ties are second team.[72]
Sources:
*Associated Press All-America Team
*National Association of Basketball Coaches All-America Team
*Sporting News All-America Team
*USBWA All-America Team
Remove ads
NBA draft
The following list includes all Big 12 players who were drafted in the 2025 NBA draft.
TV networks
Home game attendance
Bold – At or exceed capacity
†Season high
Remove ads
References
Wikiwand - on
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Remove ads