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2025 Big 12 Conference women's basketball tournament

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2025 Big 12 Conference women's basketball tournament
ClassificationDivision I
Season2024–25
Teams16
SiteT-Mobile Center
Kansas City, Missouri
ChampionsTCU (1st title)
Winning coachMark Campbell (1st title)
MVPHailey Van Lith (TCU)
Attendance39,188
TelevisionESPN, ESPNU, ESPN+
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2024–25 Big 12 Conference women's basketball standings
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT
No. 6 TCU 16 2   .889 34 3   .919
No. 14 Baylor 15 3   .833 28 8   .778
No. 17 Oklahoma State 14 4   .778 25 7   .781
No. 16 West Virginia 13 5   .722 25 8   .758
No. 19 Kansas State 13 5   .722 28 8   .778
Utah 13 5   .722 22 9   .710
Iowa State 12 6   .667 23 12   .657
Arizona 10 8   .556 19 14   .576
Colorado 9 9   .500 21 13   .618
Cincinnati 7 11   .389 15 14   .517
Kansas 6 12   .333 16 14   .533
BYU 4 14   .222 13 17   .433
UCF 4 14   .222 12 18   .400
Texas Tech 4 14   .222 19 18   .514
Arizona State 3 15   .167 10 22   .313
Houston 1 17   .056 5 25   .167
2025 Big 12 tournament winner
As of March 29, 2025
Rankings from AP poll

The 2025 Big 12 Women's Basketball Tournament was a postseason women's basketball tournament for the Big 12 Conference. It was played from March 5–9, 2025, in Kansas City, Missouri at T-Mobile Center. TCU receive the conference's automatic bid to the 2025 NCAA Tournament. Due to a major conference realignment that significantly impacted the Big 12, it will be the first tournament with 16 teams participating. At the beginning of the 2024–25 season, Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado, and Utah joined the conference. The tournament will be sponsored by Phillips 66.

Seeds

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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 TCU #‡ 16–2
2 Baylor ‡ 15–3
3 Oklahoma State ‡ 14–4
4 West Virginia ‡ 13–5 2–0 vs. Kansas State/Utah
5 Kansas State † 13–5 1–1 vs. West Virginia/Utah
6 Utah † 13–5 0–2 vs. West Virginia/Kansas State
7 Iowa State † 12–6
8 Arizona † 10–8
9 Colorado 9–9
10 Cincinnati 7–11
11 Kansas 6–12
12 BYU 4–14 1–1 vs. UCF/Texas Tech 1–0 vs. Oklahoma State
13 UCF 4–14 1–1 vs. BYU/Texas Tech 0–1 vs. Oklahoma State 1–0 vs. Texas Tech
14 Texas Tech 4–14 1–1 vs. BYU/UCF 0–1 vs. Oklahoma State 0–1 vs. UCF
15 Arizona State 3–15
16 Houston 1–17

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 2025 Big 12 tournament.

Schedule

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Game Time* Matchup# Final score Television Attendance
First round – Wednesday, March 5
1 11:00 a.m. No. 12 BYU vs No. 13 UCF 69–81 ESPN+ 4,617
2 1:30 p.m. No. 9 Colorado vs No. 16 Houston 66–58
3 5:30 p.m. No. 10 Cincinnati vs No. 15 Arizona State 75–82 4,374
4 8:00 p.m. No. 11 Kansas vs No. 14 Texas Tech 53–57
Second round – Thursday, March 6
5 11:00 a.m. No. 5 Kansas State vs No. 13 UCF 80–65 ESPN+ 4,265
6 1:30 p.m. No. 8 Arizona vs No. 9 Colorado 58–61
7 5:30 p.m. No. 7 Iowa State vs No. 15 Arizona State 96–88 4,582
8 8:00 p.m. No. 6 Utah vs No. 14 Texas Tech 64–75
Quarterfinals – Friday, March 7
9 11:00 a.m. No. 4 West Virginia vs No. 5 Kansas State 73–69 ESPNU 4,886
10 1:30 p.m. No. 1 TCU vs No. 9 Colorado 69–62
11 5:30 p.m. No. 2 Baylor vs No. 7 Iowa State 69–63 ESPN+ 5,681
12 8:00 p.m. No. 3 Oklahoma State vs No. 14 Texas Tech 62–59
Semifinals – Saturday, March 8
13 3:00 p.m. No. 1 TCU vs No. 4 West Virginia 71–65 ESPN+ 5,699
14 5:30 p.m. No. 2 Baylor vs No. 3 Oklahoma State 84–74OT
Championship – Sunday, March 9
15 4:00 p.m. No. 1 TCU vs No. 2 Baylor 64–59 ESPN 5,084
*Game times in CDT. #-Rankings denote tournament seed

Bracket

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First round
Wednesday, March 5
Second round
Thursday, March 6
Quarterfinals
Friday, March 7
Semifinals
Saturday, March 8
Championship
Sunday, March 9
1#8 TCU69
8Arizona589Colorado62
9Colorado669Colorado611#8 TCU71
16Houston584#16 West Virginia65
4#16 West Virginia73
5#20 Kansas State805#20 Kansas State69
12BYU6913UCF651#8 TCU64
13UCF812#17 Baylor59
2#17 Baylor69
7Iowa State967Iowa State63
10Cincinnati7515Arizona State882#17 Baylor84*
15Arizona State823#21 Oklahoma State74
3#21 Oklahoma State62
6Utah6414Texas Tech59
11Kansas5314Texas Tech75
14Texas Tech57

References

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  1. ^ "Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship Seeding and Tiebreaker Procedures". big12sports.com. Retrieved February 13, 2023.