The Big 12 tournament could play a huge part in determining which teams enter March Madness as No. 1 seeds.

The 2026 Phillips 66 Big 12 Conference Men’s Basketball Tournament has now been played and a victor has been named. But who won? The competition was as unexpected as could be with twists at every level of the competition.

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With the 2025-2026 regular season of NCAA Division 1 men’s basketball coming to an end, it’s time to gear up for the 2026 Big 12 Conference Tournament and Championship Game – officially known as the Phillips 66 Big 12 Men’s Basketball Tournament.

The Big 12 Tournament’s new LED court was meant to be the next big thing in basketball. It gives stadium operators the ability to bring nearly any graphic idea to life through the use of the court. A February press release when the court was initially announced cited the new court as a “significant milestone in the modernization of college athletics.

The Big 12 Conference made a change to the look of its LED video floor at the T-Mobile Center after the old design was widely criticized.

The semifinals and finals of the Big 12 men’s basketball tournament will be played on hardwood, because glass does not appear to be working out. The conference announced Thursday it will be abandoning its much-ballyhooed glass LED court for the remaining three games of its conference tournament,

Big 12 conference play has been off to a hot start, as Arizona upset Texas Tech in the first game of the three-game series.