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.[2]
Teams will be seeded by record within the conference. Ties will be broken using a tiebreaker system, with the first tiebreaker being best record in head-to-head matchups then the 2nd tiebreaker being head-to-head record against each team in the conference beginning with the first place team and working down.[3]
Seed
School
Conference
Record
Tiebreaker 1
Tiebreaker 2
Tiebreaker 3
1
TBD #‡
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2
TBD ‡
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3
TBD ‡
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4
TBD ‡
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5
TBD †
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6
TBD †
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7
TBD †
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8
TBD †
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9
TBD
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10
TBD
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11
TBD
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12
TBD
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13
TBD
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14
TBD
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15
TBD
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16
TBD
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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.