Big 12 announces new 20-game format, pairings for 2025

The Big 12 released men's basketball pairings for all 16 teams on Thursday morning. Oklahoma State fans can look forward to an extra conference home date in 2024-25 and visits from each of the four newcomers -- Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado and Utah.

The Big 12 schedule expands from 18 to 20 games for the first time. OSU will play at least once against each of its 15 conference rivals but will see only five of them twice.

Kansas State, Texas Tech, UCF, Utah and defending regular season champion Houston make up the Cowboys' two-play list.

OSU will also host Arizona, Arizona State, Cincinnati, Colorado or Iowa State this season.

Road-only opponents include Baylor, BYU, Kansas, TCU and West Virginia.

Pairings were selected by the conference based on a combination of geography, historical results and a poll of the coaches to best balance the schedule in terms of travel and competitiveness.

The full Big 12 schedule with dates, times and television assignments will be released at a later date.

Men's basketball season tickets will go on sale later this summer. For more information, contact the OSU Ticket Office at 877-255-4678 or visit okstate.com/tickets.

Oklahoma State's 2024-25 Big 12 Men's Basketball Pairings:

Home and Away:
Houston, Kansas State, Texas Tech, UCF, Utah

Home Only:
Arizona, Arizona State, Cincinnati, Colorado, Iowa State

Away Only:
Baylor, BYU, Kansas, TCU, West Virginia

Schedule Notables:

The Cowboys once again face one of the nation's toughest schedules with 18 of the 20 conference contests coming against 2024 postseason qualifiers, including 11 versus NCAA tournament teams.
Arizona's visit to Stillwater will be its first ever. The teams have met three times on neutral courts, most recently in the 2005 NCAA tournament in Chicago.
OSU last faced Arizona State in 1997 on a neutral court in Oklahoma City and last crossed paths with Utah at the 2009 Las Vegas Invitational. The Utes made their lone appearance at GIA in 1953, while the Sun Devils' visits have all come roughly three decades apart (1965, 1995 and now 2025).
The Cowboys last faced Colorado during the 2010-11 season – the last in the Buffs' original Big 12 tenure. The Cowboys have won 22 of their last 23 against them inside GIA (most recently in 2010) and 37 of 47 all-time.
Second-year members Cincinnati and Houston will make their Big 12 era GIA debuts.
Houston won a non-conference contest at GIA in 2018, but OSU swept each of the eight previous matchups between 1951 and 1958 when both schools were members of the Missouri Valley Conference.
OSU has twice played host to Cincinnati. The Cowboys were one of just three teams to beat the Oscar Robertson-led Bearcats during the 1957-58 season and took down another highly-touted squad coached by Bob Huggins to open up the 2001-02 campaign.
With Oklahoma's exit, Texas Tech becomes OSU's longest running home-and-home opponent. The former Big 12 South rivals have played twice annually in every season since the league's inception (1996-97).
The Cowboys also go home-and-home with Kansas State for the 14^th consecutive year.
Iowa State returns to Stillwater after a year off. Likewise, the Cowboys will travel to TCU and West Virginia for the first time since 2023.
OSU's trip to Orlando to face UCF will be its first ever. Baylor's new home, Foster Pavilion, also joins the list of first-time venue visits.
OSU will not host Baylor for the first time in the Big 12 era, snapping a 28-year streak. Notable runs against Kansas (13 years), TCU (12) and West Virginia (12) also come to an end.

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