Report: Big 12 makes key decision on basketball schedule for 2023-24, 2024-25 seasons
The Big 12 is set to welcome BYU, Cincinnati, Houston and UCF to the conference in 2023, and is already putting together a new basketball schedule to accommodate those additions.
CBS Sports’ Jon Rothstein reported Wednesday that the league has decided which conference matchups will take place twice in both the 2023-24 and 2024-25 seasons. Below is the full list of games, which includes the Sunflower Showdown between Kansas State and Kansas, as well as the Bedlam rivalry between Oklahoma and Oklahoma State.
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After 2025, Oklahoma and Texas will leave for the SEC and the Big 12 basketball schedule will have to be reorganized once again. That will put the conference back to 12 teams for the first time since 2010-11. Back then, the conference was divided into divisions consisting of six teams, and each team played its other five divisional opponents twice, and opponents outside that division once.
CBS Sports’ Dennis Dodd reported back in January that the conference is once again headed toward a divisional split when the four teams are added in 2023.
It will also be interesting to see Cincinnati and West Virginia reunite after spending seven seasons together in the Big East. The two schools have not played against each other since 2012, when the Mountaineers left to join the Big 12. WVU won that contest 77-74, but trails 7-9 in the all-time series.
Other than the Mountaineers, Iowa State is the only current Big 12 member set to play one of the new additions twice. The Cyclones will face BYU for just the sixth and seventh time in history when the Cougars join the conference in 2023-24.
Finally, four of the five Texas teams in the conference are set to square off twice. The Longhorns will meet Texas Tech two times, while TCU and Baylor will also play a pair of games. Houston will stick with its AAC partner UCF.