Kansas has been the top seed in each of the last nine years prior to 2019 and KSU has only reached the title game when seeded No. And not surprisingly, Texas schools have been in the title game just three times in the last ten years and there has never been a matchup of two Texas teams in the game that decides who receives and automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.Ĭertainly, fans of the northern schools will point out that their teams have been more highly seeded on average and that is somewhat true. meaning only the most hard-core of fans from those schools are able to attend the Big 12 Tournament. Meanwhile, the four teams from Texas are an average of 643.2 miles away from K.C.

And in 2010, 2013, 20, the title game has featured two teams from the old Big 12 North. In all, teams within 300 miles of Kansas City have appeared in the title game 14 times. Columbia, by the way, is just 151 miles east of Kansas City. And the one year that is the exception (2012) saw former Big 12 member Missouri win the title. Therefore, it is no wonder that in the ten years since the Big 12 Tournament has called Kansas City its permanent home, one of those three schools has been in the title game nine times. area making any game involving the Cyclones, Wildcats or Jayhawks a veritable road contest for the other seven schools in the conference. What’s more, there are thousands of alumni of those three former Big 12 North schools living in the K.C. (Imagine the benefit to the Red Raiders if the even were to be played in a city as close to Lubbock as Plainview.) That is because fans from Ames must travel just 230 miles to get to K.C., while fans from Kansas State have to travel only 121 miles and Jayhawk fans have to somehow find the courage to make a 41-mile trek. And that leads one to wonder if it is fair for the Big 12 to hold its championship tournament in Kanas City every year.Įvery March, the Sprint Center is filled by throngs of fans from primarily three schools, Iowa State, Kansas State and Kansas. It will certainly be a packed house in the Sprint Center as two teams with huge fanbases in the midwest square off. Tonight, Kansas and Iowa State will meet in the Big 12 Tournament championship game. By Matthew Conner 4 years ago The Big 12 basketball tournament should return to rotating venues as it did in the early days of the conference because annually holding the event in Kansas City is giving some teams a pseudo home court advantage every year.

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