The Big 12 is moving to 18 conference games rather than 20 next season according to Brian Thornton, Vice President of Men’s Basketball for the Big 12. pic.twitter.com/0H0U3fg3U7

— Saul Bookman (@Saul_Bookman) March 11, 2025

I appreciated the extra conference home game this year, but I like the move back to 18, which is what the SEC currently plays.

20 is a real grind, not to mention the additional travel. Just replace with an attractive non con home game, which we have yet to have in the new building.

Especially considering how tough our league is

Don't care one way or the other. Just my opinion, but we left at least 3 league games slip away. Ones we should have won. My expectation for this year was 20/21 wins. Still possible. Hopefully in the Big Tourney. This weekend will tell where we punch our ticket.

With NIL being the name of the game now, I'd rather all conferences man up and play 22 games each.

If you have a 16-team conference, split up into 4 pods, and have every team play their fellow pod members twice (6 games) and a separate pod twice (8 games). The last two pods (8 total games) would result in 4 home and 4 away games.

This would create a more balanced schedule for all members, imo, and you'd play every team (not in your pod) at home 2 out of every 3 years.

Baylor, TCU, Houston, and Texas Tech should always play home and away every year.

I read somewhere today in the offseason the ACC is gonna look at some weird structure where they create Tier 1 and Tier 2 programs, and the Tier 1 programs play each other twice and only play the Tier 2 programs once. Essentially, it was a way for them to manipulate NET so that they stood better chances for tournament selection and seeding. They didn't mention who would be in each of the categories. Not sure how all of that would work.

That will help keep the in conference record for the big xii at .500 just like the sec!