The 2016 Phillips 66 Big 12 men's basketball tournament was a postseason men's basketball tournament for the Big 12 Conference. It was played from March 9 to 12, in Kansas City, Missouri at the Sprint Center. Kansas won the tournament for the 10th time and received the conference's automatic bid to the 2016 NCAA tournament.
Seeding The Tournament consisted of a 10 team single-elimination tournament with the top 6 seeds receiving a bye. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. 2016 Big 12 Men's Basketball Tournament seeds Seed School Conf. Over. Tiebreaker1 Kansas ‡#15–333–52 West Virginia #13–526–93 Oklahoma #12–629–84 Texas #11–720–135 Baylor #10–822–122–0 vs. Iowa State6 Iowa State #10–823–12 0–2 vs. Baylor7 Texas Tech 9–919–138 Kansas State 5–1317–169 3–1512–2010 TCU 2–1612–21‡ – Big 12 Conference regular season champions, and tournament No. 1 seed.# – Received a single-bye in the conference tournament.Overall records include all games played in the Big 12 Conference tournament.
Schedule SessionGameTimeMatchupTelevisionAttendanceFirst Round – Wednesday, March 91 1 6:00 pm #8 Kansas State 75 vs #9 Oklahoma State 71 ESPNU18,972 2 8:00 pm #10 TCU 67 vs #7 Texas Tech 62Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 102 3 11:30 am #5 Baylor 75 vs #4 Texas 61 ESPN218,972 4 1:30 pm #1 Kansas 85 vs #8 Kansas State 633 5 6:00 pm #2 West Virginia 86 vs #10 TCU 66 ESPNU18,972 6 8:00 pm #3 Oklahoma 79 vs #6 Iowa State 76Semifinals – Friday, March 114 7 6:00 pm #1 Kansas 70 vs #5 Baylor 66 ESPN218,972 8 8:00 pm #2 West Virginia 69 vs #3 Oklahoma 67Final – Saturday, March 125 9 5:00 pm #1 Kansas 81 vs #2 West Virginia 71 ESPN19,046 Game times in CT. #-Rankings denote tournament seed
Bracket
Game summaries
First round
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
Championship
All-Tournament Team Most Outstanding Player – Devonte’ Graham, Kansas Player Team Position ClassDevonte’ GrahamKansasSo.GPerry EllisKansasSr.GBuddy HieldOklahomaSr.GDevin WilliamsWest VirginiaJr.FGeorges NiangIowa StateSr.F
See also 2016 Big 12 Conference women's basketball tournament 2016 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament 2015–16 NCAA Division I men's basketball rankings
References
External links Official 2016 Big 12 Men's Basketball Tournament Bracket
2016 Big 12 Men's Basketball Championship Media Guide