| Year: | 2016 |
| Conference: | Big 12 |
| Division: | I |
| Gender: | Men's |
| Teams: | 10 |
| Arena: | Sprint Center |
| City: | Kansas City, Missouri |
| Champions: | Kansas |
| Titlecount: | 10th |
| Coach: | Bill Self |
| Coachcount: | 7th |
| Mvp: | Devonte’ Graham |
| Mvpteam: | Kansas |
| Attendance: | 94,934 (overall) 19,046 (championship) |
| Topscorer: | Perry Ellis |
| Topscorerteam: | Kansas |
| Topscorer2: | Devin Williams |
| Topscorer2team: | West Virginia |
| Points: | 58 |
| Television: | ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU |
The 2016 Phillips 66 Big 12 men's basketball tournament was a postseason men's basketball tournament for the Big 12 Conference. It was played from March 9 to 12, in Kansas City, Missouri at the Sprint Center. Kansas won the tournament for the 10th time and received the conference's automatic bid to the 2016 NCAA tournament.
The Tournament consisted of a 10 team single-elimination tournament with the top 6 seeds receiving a bye.Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.
| 2016 Big 12 Men's Basketball Tournament seeds | ||||||||||
| Seed | School | Conf. | Over. | Tiebreaker | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kansas ‡# | 15–3 | 33–5 | |||||||
| 2 | West Virginia # | 13–5 | 26–9 | |||||||
| 3 | Oklahoma # | 12–6 | 29–8 | |||||||
| 4 | Texas # | 11–7 | 20–13 | |||||||
| 5 | Baylor # | 10–8 | 22–12 | 2–0 vs. Iowa State | ||||||
| 6 | Iowa State # | 10–8 | 23–12 | 0–2 vs. Baylor | ||||||
| 7 | 9–9 | 19–13 | ||||||||
| 8 | 5–13 | 17–16 | ||||||||
| 9 | 3–15 | 12–20 | ||||||||
| 10 | 2–16 | 12–21 | ||||||||
| ‡ – Big 12 Conference 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 Conference tournament. | ||||||||||
| Session | Game | Time | Matchup | Television | Attendance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First Round – Wednesday, March 9 | ||||||
| 1 | 1 | 6:00 pm |
| ESPNU | 18,972 | |
| 2 | 8:00 pm |
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| Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 10 | ||||||
| 2 | 3 | 11:30 am |
| ESPN2 | 18,972 | |
| 4 | 1:30 pm |
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| 3 | 5 | 6:00 pm |
| ESPNU | 18,972 | |
| 6 | 8:00 pm |
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| Semifinals – Friday, March 11 | ||||||
| 4 | 7 | 6:00 pm |
| ESPN2 | 18,972 | |
| 8 | 8:00 pm |
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| Final – Saturday, March 12 | ||||||
| 5 | 9 | 5:00 pm |
| ESPN | 19,046 | |
| Game times in CT. #-Rankings denote tournament seed | ||||||
Most Outstanding Player – Devonte’ Graham, Kansas
| Player | Team | Position | Class | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Devonte’ Graham | Kansas | So. | G | |
| Perry Ellis | Kansas | Sr. | G | |
| Buddy Hield | Oklahoma | Sr. | G | |
| Devin Williams | West Virginia | Jr. | F | |
| Georges Niang | Iowa State | Sr. | F |