The Big 12 has released its 2015 women's basketball conference composite schedule.
The New Year rings in with league action beginning on Saturday, Jan. 3, 2015 and will conclude on Tuesday, March 3, 2015. Dates may be adjusted after the television schedule is released. Institutions will release their own non-conference schedules once completed.
The conference schedule features a double round robin format for the fourth-consecutive year consisting of 18 games with squads playing each other twice. The team(s) that finishes with the best winning percentage in league games will be crowned the Big 12 regular season champion.
Dallas’ American Airlines Center will host the 2015 Phillips 66 Big 12 Women's Basketball Championship for the second time in three years. The Conference championship was also contested in Dallas in 2006, 2004 and 2003, however those were held in Reunion Arena. The 2013 event at American Airlines Center averaged 7,037 fans per session, the second-highest attendance in Big 12 history.
Two first round matchups will be played on Friday, March 6, followed by quarterfinals on Saturday, March 7. Semifinals are scheduled for Sunday, March 8 with the final contested on Monday, March 9. The winner earns the Big 12's automatic bid to the NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship.
2014 marked the fifth-straight year for the Big 12 to lead the nation in percentage of teams in the NCAA field. The Conference has led or tied for the nation’s top spot in seven of eight years dating back to 2007. The Big 12 has placed at least six teams in the NCAA Championship eight-consecutive years and 14 times overall since inception in 1996-97.
2015 Big 12 Women’s Basketball Conference Schedule
Saturday, January 3 Oklahoma State at Baylor K-State at Iowa State Kansas at Texas TCU at Texas Tech Sunday, January 4 West Virginia at Oklahoma Tuesday, January 6 Baylor at K-State Wednesday, January 7 Oklahoma at Kansas Texas Tech at Oklahoma State Iowa State at TCU West Virginia at Texas Saturday, January 10 Texas at Iowa State Kansas at K-State Oklahoma State at TCU Oklahoma at Texas Tech Baylor at West Virginia Tuesday, January 13 Iowa State at Baylor Wednesday, January 14 TCU at Kansas Texas at Oklahoma K-State at Oklahoma State Texas Tech at West Virginia Saturday, January 17 Baylor at Kansas Iowa State at K-State West Virginia at Oklahoma State Oklahoma at TCU Texas Tech at Texas Monday, January 19 Texas at Baylor Wednesday, January 21 TCU at Iowa State Oklahoma State at Oklahoma Kansas at Texas Tech K-State at West Virginia Saturday, January 24 K-State at Baylor West Virginia at Kansas Texas Tech at Oklahoma TCU at Oklahoma State Sunday, January 25 Iowa State at Texas Tuesday, January 27 Baylor at TCU Wednesday, January 28 Kansas at Iowa State Oklahoma State at K-State Oklahoma at Texas West Virginia at Texas Tech Saturday, January 31 Kansas at Baylor Oklahoma State at Iowa State Texas at TCU K-State at Texas Tech Oklahoma at West Virginia Wednesday, February 4 Texas Tech at Kansas Texas at K-State Iowa State at Oklahoma Baylor at Oklahoma State TCU at West Virginia |
Saturday, February 7 West Virginia at Iowa State Oklahoma State at Kansas K-State at Oklahoma Sunday, February 8 Texas Tech at TCU Baylor at Texas Tuesday, February 10 Kansas at West Virginia Wednesday, February 11 Oklahoma at Baylor TCU at K-State Texas at Oklahoma State Iowa State at Texas Tech Saturday, February 14 Texas at Kansas Texas Tech at K-State TCU at Oklahoma Iowa State at Oklahoma State Sunday, February 15 West Virginia at Baylor Monday, February 16 Oklahoma at Iowa State Tuesday, February 17 Kansas at TCU Wednesday, February 18 K-State at Texas Baylor at Texas Tech Oklahoma State at West Virginia Saturday, February 21 TCU at Baylor Oklahoma at K-State Kansas at Oklahoma State Texas at Texas Tech Iowa State at West Virginia Tuesday, February 24 Texas Tech at Iowa State West Virginia at TCU Wednesday, February 25 K-State at Kansas Baylor at Oklahoma Oklahoma State at Texas Saturday, February 28 Baylor at Iowa State Kansas at Oklahoma K-State at TCU Oklahoma State at Texas Tech Sunday, March 1 Texas at West Virginia Monday, March 2 Texas Tech at Baylor Iowa State at Kansas Oklahoma at Oklahoma State Tuesday, March 3 West Virginia at K-State TCU at Texas |