2016–17 Big 12 Conference men's basketball season explained

2016–17 Big 12 Men's Basketball Season
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League:	NCAA Division I
Sport:	Basketball
Pixels:	180px
No Of Teams:	10
Tv:	CBS, ESPN, FSN
Season:	Regular season
Season Champs:	Kansas
Season Champ Name:	2017 Big 12 Champions
Mvp Link:	Big 12 Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year
Top Scorer:	Frank Mason III
Finals:	Tournament
Finals Link:	2017 Big 12 Men's Basketball Tournament
Finals Champ:	Iowa State
Finals Runner-Up:	West Virginia
Finals Mvp:	Monte Morris
Seasonslistnames:	Basketball
Prevseason Link:	15–16
Prevseason Year:	2015–16
Nextseason Link:	17–18
Nextseason Year:	2017–18

The 2016–17 Big 12 men's basketball season is the ongoing 21st season of basketball for the Big 12 Conference. Team practices began in October 2016, and were followed by the start of the regular season on November 11. Conference play began on December 30, 2016 and will conclude with the 2017 Big 12 men's basketball tournament, beginning March 8, 2017 at the Sprint Center in Kansas City. During the conference's non-conference schedule, Big 12 teams posted a win percentage of .822, the best non-conference win percentage of any conference in the nation.^[1]

Preseason

Big 12 Preseason Poll

	Big 12 Coaches	Points
1.	Kansas (9)	81
2.	West Virginia	65
3.	Texas	59
4.	Iowa State (1)	56
5.	Baylor	53
6.	Oklahoma	40
7.	Oklahoma State	32
	Texas Tech
9.	Kansas State	20
10.	TCU	12
Reference:^[2] (#) first place votes

Pre-Season All-Big 12 Team

Big 12 Coaches
Jawun Evans, G Oklahoma State Frank Mason III, G Kansas Devonte' Graham, G Kansas Monte Morris, G Iowa State Johnathan Motley, F Baylor
Reference:^[3]

• Player of the Year: Monte Morris, Iowa State
• Newcomer of the Year: Manu Lecomte, Baylor
• Freshman of the Year: Josh Jackson, Kansas

Tournaments

Team	Tournament	Finish
Baylor	Battle 4 Atlantis	Champions
Iowa State	AdvoCare Invitational	Runner-Up
Kansas	CBE Hall of Fame Classic	Champions
Kansas State	Barclays Center Classic	Runner-Up
Oklahoma	Puerto Rico Tip-Off	3rd Place
Oklahoma State	Maui Invitational	3rd Place
TCU	Global Sports Classic	Champions
Texas	Legends Classic	4th Place
Texas Tech	Cancún Challenge	3rd Place
West Virginia	NIT Season Tip-Off	Runner-Up

Head coaches

Note: Stats shown are before the beginning of the season. Overall and Big 12 records are from time at current school.

Team	Head coach	Previous job	Seasons at school	Overall record	Big 12 record	NCAA tournaments	NCAA Final Fours	NCAA Championships
Baylor	Scott Drew	Valparaiso	14th	252–172	95–121	6	0	0
Iowa State	Steve Prohm	Murray State	2nd	25–12	10–8	1	0	0
Kansas	Bill Self	Illinois	14th	385–83	179–39	13	2	1
Kansas State	Bruce Weber	Illinois	5th	79–54	37–35	2	0	0
Oklahoma	Lon Kruger	UNLV	6th	111–57	52–38	4	1	0
Oklahoma State	Brad Underwood	Stephen F. Austin	1st	0–0	0–0	0	0	0
TCU	Jamie Dixon	Pittsburgh	1st	0–0	0–0	0	0	0
Texas	Shaka Smart	VCU	2nd	20–13	11–7	1	0	0
Texas Tech	Chris Beard	Little Rock	1st	0–0	0–0	0	0	0
West Virginia	Bob Huggins	Kansas State	10th	201–110	39–33	7	1	0

Rankings

Legend

		Increase in ranking
		Decrease in ranking
		Not ranked previous week

See main article: 2016–17 NCAA Division I men's basketball rankings.

	Pre	Wk 2	Wk 3	Wk 4	Wk 5	Wk 6	Wk 7	Wk 8	Wk 9	Wk 10	Wk 11	Wk 12	Wk 13	Wk 14	Wk 15	Wk 16	Wk 17	Wk 18	Wk 19	Final
Baylor	AP			20	9	4	4	4	4	2	1	6	5	2	6	4	9	11	9	12
C			RV	11	6	5	6	4	3	1	6	5	3	8	4	9	11	10	11	12
Iowa State	AP	24	20	21	19	25	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV	24	23	16
C	RV	23	22	21	25	RV				RV		RV		RV		RV	24	24	20	25
Kansas	AP	3	7	5	4	3	3	3	3	3	2	2	2	3	3	3	3	1	1	3
C	2	8	6	5	3	3	3	3	2	2	1	1	2	3	3	3	1	1	3	4
Kansas State	AP						RV	RV		RV	25	RV	RV		RV
C	RV								RV	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV
Oklahoma	AP	RV	RV
C	RV	RV	RV	RV
Oklahoma State	AP							RV	RV						RV	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV
C				RV	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV					RV			RV	RV	RV	RV
TCU	AP					RV	RV					RV
C					RV	RV	RV	RV			RV									RV
Texas	AP	21	23	22
C	22	21	21	RV
Texas Tech	AP
C							RV
West Virginia	AP	20	19	19	25	15	12	11	11	7	10	7	18	7	13	9	12	10	11	13
C	18	19	17	19	16	13	12	12	7	9	8	18	12	14	12	13	10	11	12	11

Regular season

Conference matrix

	Baylor	Iowa State	Kansas	Kansas State	Oklahoma	Oklahoma State	TCU	Texas	Texas Tech	West Virginia
ISU	KU	KSU	OU	OSU	TCU	UT	TTU	WVU -->	vs. Baylor	—	1–1	2–0	1–1	0–2	0–2	0–2	0–2	1–1	1–1
vs. Iowa State	1–1	—	1–1	0–2	0–2	0–2	1–1	1–1	0–2	2–0
vs. Kansas	0–2	1–1	—	0–2	0–2	0–2	0–2	0–2	0–2	1–1
vs. Kansas State	1–1	2–0	2–0	—	1–1	1–1	1–1	0–2	1–1	1–1
vs. Oklahoma	2–0	2–0	2–0	1–1	—	2–0	1–1	1–1	1–1	1–1
vs. Oklahoma State	2–0	2–0	2–0	1–1	0–2	—	0–2	1–1	0–2	1–1
vs. TCU	2–0	1–1	2–0	1–1	1–1	2–0	—	0–2	1–1	2–0
vs. Texas	2–0	1–1	2–0	2–0	1–1	1–1	2–0	—	1–1	2–0
vs. Texas Tech	1–1	2–0	2–0	1–1	1–1	2–0	1–1	1–1	—	1–1
vs. West Virginia	1–1	0–2	1–1	1–1	1–1	1–1	0–2	0–2	1–1	—	ISU	KU	KSU	OU	OSU	TCU	UT	TTU	WVU -->
Total	12–6	12–6	16–2	8–10	5–13	9–9	6–12	4–14	6–12	12–6

Points scored

Team	For	Against	Difference
Baylor	1230	1158	72
Iowa State	1408	1363	45
Kansas	1447	1345	102
Kansas State	1272	1326	-54
Oklahoma	1266	1330	-64
Oklahoma State	1435	1405	30
TCU	1243	1314	-71
Texas	1202	1314	-112
Texas Tech	1233	1304	-71
West Virginia	1416	1296	120

Schedules

Baylor

|+ style="background:#; color:#;" | Baylor Bears Schedule|-!colspan=6 style="background:#; color:#;"|Big 12 Regular season|-! colspan=6 style="background:#;"| Big 12 tournament

Iowa State

|+ style="background:#; color:#;" | Iowa State Cyclones Schedule|-!colspan=6 style="background:#; color:#;"|Big 12 Regular season|-!colspan=6 style="background:#;"| Big 12 tournament

Kansas

|+ style="background:#; color:#;" | Kansas Jayhawks Schedule|-!colspan=6 style="background:#; color:#;"|Big 12 Regular season|-! colspan=6 style="background:#;"| Big 12 tournament

Kansas State

|+ style="background:#; color:#;" | Kansas State Wildcats Schedule|-!colspan=6 style="background:#; color:#;"|Big 12 Regular season|-!colspan=12 style="background:#; color:#;"| Big 12 tournament

Oklahoma

|+ style="background:#; color:#;" | Oklahoma Sooners Schedule|-!colspan=6 style="background:#; color:#;"|Big 12 Regular season|-! colspan=9 style="background:#; color:#;"| Big 12 tournament

Oklahoma State

|+ style="background:#; color:#;" | Oklahoma State Cowboys Schedule|-!colspan=6 style="background:#; color:#;"|Big 12 Regular season|-!colspan=6 style="background:#; color:#;"| Big 12 tournament

TCU

|+ style="background:#; color:#;" | TCU Horned Frogs Schedule|-!colspan=6 style="background:#; color:#;"|Big 12 Regular season|-!colspan=6 style="background:#; color:#;"| Big 12 tournament

Texas

|+ style="background:#; color:#;" | Texas Longhorns Schedule|-!colspan=6 style="background:#; color:#;"|Big 12 Regular season|-!colspan=6 style="background:#"| Big 12 tournament

Texas Tech

|+ style="background:#; color:#;" | Texas Tech Red Raiders Schedule|-!colspan=6 style="background:#; color:#;"|Big 12 Regular season|-!colspan=6 style="background:#; color:;"| Big 12 tournament

West Virginia

|+ style="background:#; color:#;" | West Virginia Mountaineers Schedule|-!colspan=6 style="background:#; color:#;"|Big 12 Regular season|-!colspan=9 style="background:#; color:#;"| Big 12 tournament

Honors and awards

All-Americans

See main article: 2017 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans.

All-Big 12 awards and teams

2016 Big 12 Men's Basketball Individual Awards^[4]
Award	Recipient(s)
Player of the Year	Frank Mason III†, G, Kansas
Coach of the Year	Bill Self, Kansas
Defensive Player of the Year	Jevon Carter, G, West Virginia
Sixth Man Award	Tarik Phillip, G, West Virginia
Newcomer of the Year	Manu Lecomte, G, Baylor
Freshman of the Year	Josh Jackson† F, Kansas

2016 Big 12 Men's Basketball All-Conference Teams
First Team	Second Team	Third Team	Defensive Team
Jawun Evans, So., G, Oklahoma State Josh Jackson, Fr., F, Kansas Frank Mason III†, Sr., G, Kansas Monte Morris†, Sr., G, Iowa State Johnathan Motley†, Jr., F, Baylor	Vladimir Brodziansky, Jr., F, TCU Jeffrey Carroll, Jr., G/F, Oklahoma State Jevon Carter Jr., G, West Virginia Devonte' Graham Jr., G, Kansas Naz Mitrou-Long, Jr., G, Iowa State	Nathan Adrian, Sr., F, West Virginia Jarrett Allen, Fr., F, Texas Deonte Burton, Sr., G, Iowa State Keenan Evans, Jr., G, Texas Tech Wesley Iwundu, Sr., F, Kansas State Manu Lecomte, Jr., G, Baylor	Nathan Adrian, Sr., F, West Virginia Vladimir Brodziansky, Jr., F, TCU Jevon Carter, Jr., G, West Virginia Jo Lual-Acuil, Jr., F, Baylor Ish Wainright, Sr., G, Baylor
† - denotes unanimous selection

Phillips 66 Player of the Week

Week	Player of the Week	School	Newcomer of the Week	School	Ref.
Nov. 11–13	Frank Mason III	Kansas	Manu Lecomte	Baylor	^[5]
			Jaylen Fisher	TCU
Nov. 14–20	Monte Morris	Iowa State	Josh Jackson	Kansas	^[6]
Nov. 21–27	Johnathan Motley	Baylor	Josh Jackson (2)	Kansas	^[7]
Nov. 28 – Dec. 4	Manu Lecomte	Baylor	Anthony Livingston	Texas Tech	^[8]
	Jawun Evans	Oklahoma State
Dec. 5–11	Frank Mason III (2)	Kansas	Brandon Averette	Oklahoma State	^[9]
Dec. 12–18	Naz Mitrou-Long	Iowa State	Jo Lual-Acuil Jr.	Baylor	^[10]
Dec. 19–25	Josh Jackson	Kansas	Desmond Bane	TCU	^[11]
Dec. 26 – Jan. 1	Landen Lucas	Kansas	Manu Lecomte (2)	Baylor	^[12]
Jan. 2–8	Johnathan Motley (2)	Baylor	Josh Jackson (3)	Kansas	^[13]
Jan. 9–15	Vladimir Brodziansky	TCU	Josh Jackson (4)	Kansas	^[14]
			Jarrett Allen	Texas
Jan. 16–22	Johnathan Motley (3)	Baylor	Jarrett Allen (2)	Texas	^[15]
Jan. 23–29	Jawun Evans (2)	Oklahoma State	Josh Jackson (5)	Kansas	^[16]
Jan. 30 – Feb. 5	Deonte Burton	Iowa State	Lindy Waters III	Oklahoma State	^[17]
			Alex Robinson	TCU
Feb. 6–12	Josh Jackson (2)	Kansas	Manu Lecomte (3)	Baylor	^[18]
Feb. 13–19	Jawun Evans (3)	Oklahoma State	Josh Jackson (6)	Kansas	^[19]
Feb. 20–26	Monte Morris (2)	Iowa State	Josh Jackson (7)	Kansas	^[20]
Feb. 27 – Mar. 5	Frank Mason III (3)	Kansas	Kameron McGusty	Oklahoma	^[21]

Postseason

Big 12 tournament

See main article: 2017 Big 12 men's basketball tournament.

• March 8–11, 2017–Big 12 Conference Basketball Tournament, Sprint Center, Kansas City, MO.

2017 Big 12 men's basketball tournament seeds and results
Seed	School	Conf.	Over.	Tiebreaker	First round March 8	Quarterfinals March 9	Semifinals March 10	Championship March 11
1.	‡† Kansas	16–2	28–4		Bye	8 TCU
2.	† West Virginia	12–6	26–8	3–1 vs. BU & ISU	Bye	10 Texas	6 Kansas State	4 Iowa State
3.	† Baylor	12–6	25–7	2–2 vs. WVU & ISU	Bye	6 Kansas State
4.	† Iowa State	12–6	23–10	1–3 vs. WVU & BU	Bye	5 Oklahoma State	8 TCU	2 West Virginia
5.	† Oklahoma State	9–9	20–12		Bye	4 Iowa State
6.	† Kansas State	8–10	20–13		Bye	3 Baylor	2 West Virginia
7.	Texas Tech	6–12	18–14	1–1 vs. WVU	10 Texas
8.	TCU	6–12	19–15	0–2 vs. WVU	9 Oklahoma	1 Kansas	4 Iowa State
9.	Oklahoma	5–13	11–20		8 TCU
10.	Texas	4–14	11–22		7 Texas Tech	2 West Virginia
‡ – Big 12 regular season champions, and tournament No. 1 seed. † – Received a single-bye in the conference tournament. Overall records include all games played in the Big 12 tournament.

Bracket

NCAA tournament

See main article: 2017 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.

Seed	Region	School	First Four	First round	Second round	Sweet 16	Elite Eight	Final Four	Championship
1	Midwest	Kansas	Bye	16 UC Davis - W, 100–62	9 Michigan State - W, 90–70	4 Purdue - W, 98–66	3 Oregon - L, 60–74
3	East	Baylor	Bye	14 New Mexico State - W, 91–73	11 USC - W, 82–78	7 South Carolina - L, 50–70
4	West	West Virginia	Bye	13 Bucknell - W, 86–80	5 Notre Dame - W, 83–71	1 Gonzaga - L, 58–61
5	Midwest	Iowa State	Bye	12 Nevada - W, 84–73	4 Purdue - L, 76–80
10	South	Oklahoma State	Bye	7 Michigan - L, 91–92
11	South	Kansas State	11 Wake Forest - W, 95–88	6 Cincinnati - L, 61–75
	6 Bids	W-L (%):	1–0	4–2	3–1	1–2	0–1	0–0	TOTAL: 9–6

NIT

See main article: 2017 National Invitation Tournament.

Seed	Region	School	First round	Second round	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
4	Iowa	TCU	5 Fresno State - W, 66–58	1 Iowa - W, 94–92	6 Richmond - W, 86–68	4 UCF - W, 68–53	6 Georgia Tech - W, 88–56
	1 Bid	W-L (%):	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	TOTAL: 5–0

See also

• 2016–17 NCAA Division I men's basketball season
• Big 12 Conference
• Big 12/SEC Challenge

Notes and References

1. Web site: Big 12 Men's Basketball Update. Big12Sports.com.
2. Web site: Lucky 13? Kansas The Pick For 13th Straight Title. big12sports.com. Big 12 Conference. October 13, 2016. October 31, 2016.
3. Web site: Morris Leads Preseason All-Big 12 Awards. big12sports.com. Big 12 Conference. October 6, 2016. October 31, 2016.
4. Web site: Three Teams Lead Men's Basketball Awards . Big 12 Sports . March 11, 2017 . March 5, 2017.
5. Web site: Trio Earns First Weekly Men's Basketball Awards. big12sports.com. Big 12 Conference. November 14, 2016. November 14, 2016.
6. Web site: Morris, Jackson Take Weekly Men's Basketball Honors. big12sports.com. Big 12 Conference. November 21, 2016. November 21, 2016.
7. Web site: Motley, Jackson Earn Thanksgiving Week Accolades. big12sports.com. Big 12 Conference. November 28, 2016. November 28, 2016.
8. Web site: Lecomte, Evans, Livingston Honored In Men's Basketball. big12sports.com. Big 12 Conference. December 5, 2016. December 5, 2016.
9. Web site: Mason, Averette Earn Men's Basketball Awards. big12sports.com. Big 12 Conference. December 12, 2016. December 12, 2016.
10. Web site: Mitrou-Long, Lual-Acuil Gather Early Holiday Honors. big12sports.com. Big 12 Conference. December 19, 2016. December 19, 2016.
11. Web site: Freshmen Earn Final Men's Basketball Awards Of 2016. big12sports.com. Big 12 Conference. December 27, 2016. December 27, 2016.
12. Web site: Lucas, Lecomte Garner Men's Basketball Honors. big12sports.com. Big 12 Conference. January 3, 2017. January 3, 2017.
13. Web site: Players From Top Two Teams Earn Weekly Honors. big12sports.com. Big 12 Conference. January 9, 2017. January 9, 2017.
14. Web site: Brodziansky, Jackson, Allen Tabbed For Weekly Awards. big12sports.com. Big 12 Conference. January 16, 2017. January 16, 2017.
15. Web site: Double-Doubles Lead To Awards For Motley, Allen. big12sports.com. Big 12 Conference. January 23, 2017. January 23, 2017.
16. Web site: Challenge Wins Lead To Weekly Men's Basketball Awards. big12sports.com. Big 12 Conference. January 30, 2017. January 30, 2017.
17. Web site: Guards Earn Men's Basketball Honors After Key Wins. big12sports.com. Big 12 Conference. February 6, 2017. February 6, 2017.
18. Web site: League Leaders Boast Men's Basketball Award Winners. big12sports.com. Big 12 Conference. February 13, 2017. February 13, 2017.
19. Web site: Big Wins Lead To Honors For Evans, Jackson. big12sports.com. Big 12 Conference. February 20, 2017. February 20, 2017.
20. Web site: Win Streaks Lead To Men's Basketball Honors For Morris, Jackson. big12sports.com. Big 12 Conference. February 27, 2017. February 27, 2017.
21. Web site: Mason, McGusty Earn Final Men's Basketball Weekly Honors. big12sports.com. Big 12 Conference. March 5, 2017. March 5, 2017.