Big 12 Announces Baylor MBB Conference Opponents

IRVING, Texas – The Big 12 announced the schedule matrix for the upcoming men's basketball season Thursday morning, returning to an 18-game slate in 2025-26.

Each school has a home-and-home with three other conference opponents and faces the other 12 opponents once, with six at home and six on the road. Opponents were selected based on what the conference deemed the best-balanced schedule in terms of travel and competitiveness.

BU’s three home-and-home opponents are Houston, Iowa State and TCU. Its six remaining home games will come against Arizona, Arizona State, BYU, Colorado, Texas Tech and Utah, with road contests waiting at UCF, Cincinnati, Kansas, Kansas State, Oklahoma State and West Virginia.

After playing home-and-home contests with Houston and TCU a season ago, the Bears will face Iowa State twice in the regular season for the first time since 2022-23. A season after visiting all of the new four-corner schools (Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado and Utah), each will play in Waco, with Arizona State and Colorado doing so for the first time since 2013 and 2011, respectively. BYU and Texas Tech will make return trips to Foster Pavilion after hosting the Bears last season, with BU missing the Red Raiders in Lubbock for the first time since 1956.

Building on its five-game home win streak against Kansas last season, Baylor will make a return trip to Allen Fieldhouse for the first time since 2024, seeing the Jayhawks just once for a second year in a row. A road trip to Manhattan has the Bears aiming to upend Kansas State on its home floor for the first time since 2022.

A second-straight trip to Cincinnati has the Bears looking for the program's first win in the Queen City since 1946. Three more road venues await BU, all with positive vibes for the green and gold as the Bears can run road win streaks to nine in Stillwater, Okla., against Oklahoma State, four in Morgantown, W. Va., against West Virginia, and two in Orlando against UCF.