Big 12 Releases 2025–26 Basketball Schedules

The Big 12 released its 2025–26 men’s and women’s basketball schedules, reverting the men’s league to an 18-game conference slate and finalizing nonconference pairings and home/away rotations. Kansas State’s men will play their home slate at Bramlage Coliseum, host marquee nonconference opponents including California, Seton Hall, BYU, Kansas, Baylor and Iowa State, have home-and-homes with Kansas, TCU and West Virginia, open Big 12 play at home vs. BYU, and face road tests at Indiana, Creighton, Arizona, Houston and Texas Tech; their nonconference stretch runs Nov. 4 (UNC Greensboro) to Dec. 28 (Louisiana Monroe) and includes a Nov. 21 neutral-site game in Kansas City vs. Nebraska or New Mexico. The Kansas State women’s schedule features home-and-homes with Houston, Iowa State and Kansas, a Big 12 opener at TCU on Dec. 20, and a demanding January–February sequence including trips to Tempe and Tucson. Oklahoma State will open conference play Jan. 3 at Texas Tech, finish at home vs. Houston on March 7, play 10 of 13 nonconference games in Stillwater and 10 of 18 league games on Saturdays as Steve Lutz enters his second season. Kansas men will play conference games Jan. 3–Mar. 7 with home-and-homes vs. Arizona, Iowa State and Kansas State, a Sunflower Showdown in Manhattan on Jan. 24, and road games at UCF, Colorado, Oklahoma State, Texas Tech and West Virginia.