2026 Big 12 Conference women's basketball tournament

2026 Big 12 Conference women's basketball tournament
ClassificationDivision I
Season2025–26
Teams16
SiteT-Mobile Center
Kansas City, Missouri
TelevisionESPN, ESPNU, ESPN+
2025–26 Big 12 women's basketball standings
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT
Arizona State 2 0   1.000 15 0   1.000
No. 21 Texas Tech 2 0   1.000 15 0   1.000
No. 10 Iowa State 2 0   1.000 14 0   1.000
No.TCU 2 0   1.000 14 0   1.000
West Virginia 2 0   1.000 12 2   .857
BYU 1 1   .500 12 2   .857
No. 22 Baylor 1 1   .500 12 3   .800
Oklahoma State 1 1   .500 12 3   .800
Colorado 1 1   .500 10 4   .714
Utah 1 1   .500 10 4   .714
Kansas State 1 1   .500 8 7   .533
Kansas 0 2   .000 10 4   .714
Arizona 0 2   .000 9 4   .692
UCF 0 2   .000 8 5   .615
Houston 0 2   .000 6 7   .462
Cincinnati 0 2   .000 5 9   .357
2026 Big 12 tournament winner
As of January 1, 2026
Rankings from AP poll

The 2026 Big 12 Women's Basketball Tournament is an upcoming postseason women's basketball tournament for the Big 12 Conference. It will be played from March 4–8, 2026, in Kansas City, Missouri at T-Mobile Center. The winner will received automatic trip to 2026 NCAA Tournament. If BYU advanced to the championship game it will be played on March 9th. The tournament will be sponsored by Phillips 66.

Seeds

All sixteen teams will participate in the tournament. It will be the first with the 16-team bracket format. The top eight teams will receive a first round bye and the top four teams will receive a double bye, automatically advancing them into the quarterfinals.

Teams will be seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.[1]

Seed School Conference

Record

Tiebreaker 1 Tiebreaker 2 Tiebreaker 3
1 # ‡ 0–0
2 0–0
3 0–0
4 0–0
5 0–0
6 0–0
7 0–0
8 0–0
9 0–0
10 0–0
11 0–0
12 0–0
13 0–0
14 0–0
15 0–0
16 0–0

Notes: # – Big 12 regular season champions, and tournament No. 1 seed
‡ – Received a double-bye into the conference tournament quarterfinal round
† – Received a single-bye into the conference tournament second round
Overall records include all games played in the 2026 Big 12 tournament.

Schedule

Source:[2]

Game Time* Matchup# Final score Television Attendance
First round – Wednesday, March 4
1 11:00 a.m. No. 12 vs No. 13 ESPN+
2 1:30 p.m. No. 9 vs No. 16
3 5:30 p.m. No. 10 vs No. 15
4 8:00 p.m. No. 11 vs No. 14
Second round – Thursday, March 5
5 11:00 a.m. No. 5 vs Winner of game 1 ESPN+
6 1:30 p.m. No. 8 vs Winner of game 2
7 5:30 p.m. No. 7 vs Winner of game 3
8 8:00 p.m. No. 6 vs Winner of game 4
Quarterfinals – Friday, March 6
9 11:00 a.m. No. 4 vs Winner of game 5 ESPNU
10 1:30 p.m. No. 1 vs Winner of game 6
11 5:30 p.m. No. 2 vs Winner of game 7 ESPN+
12 8:00 p.m. No. 3 vs Winner of game 8
Semifinals – Saturday, March 7
13 3:00 p.m. Winner of game 9 vs Winner of game 10 ESPN+
14 5:30 p.m. Winner of game 11 vs Winner of game 12
Championship – Sunday, March 8
15 4:00 p.m. Winner of game 13 vs Winner of game 14 ESPN
*Game times in CDT. #-Rankings denote tournament seed

Bracket

First round
Wednesday, March 4
Second round
Thursday, March 5
Quarterfinals
Friday, March 6
Semifinals
Saturday, March 7
Championship
Sunday, March 8
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References

  1. ^ "Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship Seeding and Tiebreaker Procedures". big12sports.com. Retrieved 2023-02-13.
  2. ^ "2026 Phillips 66 Big 12 Women's Basketball Championship Schedule".