2025 Big 12 Conference baseball tournament

2025 Big 12 Conference
baseball tournament

Teams	12
Format	one bracket single-elimination tournament
Finals site	Globe Life Field Arlington, Texas
Champions	Arizona  (1st title)
Winning coach	Chip Hale  (1st title)
MVP	Mason White (Arizona)
Attendance	15,415
Television	Bracket Play: ESPN+, ESPN2, ESPNU Championship: ESPNU
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2025 Big 12 Conference baseball standings

v t e	Conf.							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
No. 14 West Virginia  ‍†‍‍y	19	–	9		.679			44	–	16		.733
Kansas  ‍‍‍y	20	–	10		.667			43	–	17		.717
TCU  ‍‍‍y	19	–	11		.633			39	–	20		.661
No. 7 Arizona  ‍‍‡‍y	18	–	12		.600			44	–	21		.677
Arizona State  ‍‍‍y	18	–	12		.600			36	–	24		.600
Kansas State  ‍‍‍y	17	–	13		.567			32	–	26		.552
Oklahoma State  ‍‍‍y	15	–	12		.556			30	–	25		.545
Cincinnati  ‍‍‍y	16	–	14		.533			33	–	26		.559
Texas Tech  ‍‍‍	13	–	17		.433			20	–	33		.377
Baylor  ‍‍‍	13	–	17		.433			33	–	22		.600
Houston  ‍‍‍	12	–	17		.414			30	–	25		.545
BYU  ‍‍‍	10	–	20		.333			28	–	27		.509
UCF  ‍‍‍	9	–	21		.300			29	–	26		.527
Utah  ‍‍‍	8	–	22		.267			21	–	29		.420
† – Conference champion ‡ – Tournament champion y – Invited to the NCAA tournament As of June 23, 2025 [1] Rankings from D1baseball

The 2025 Big 12 Conference baseball tournament was held from May 21 through 24 at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas. The annual tournament determines the conference champion of the Division I Big 12 Conference for college baseball. The winner of the tournament will earn the league's automatic bid to the 2025 NCAA Division I baseball tournament. ^{[2] [3]}

The tournament has been held since 1997, the inaugural year of the Big 12 Conference. Among current league members, Oklahoma State and TCU have won the most championships with four. Among original members, Kansas State has never won the event. Defending champion Oklahoma State won their fourth championship in 2024. Iowa State discontinued their program after the 2001 season without having won a title. This is the first season with Arizona, Arizona State and Utah since conference realignment, with Colorado not fielding a team.

Format and seeding

The top twelve finishers from the regular season will be seeded one through twelve, and will then play a single-elimination tournament. This is a change from the previous season where the tournament was double elimination.

Seed	School	Conf.	Over.	Tiebreaker
#1	West Virginia	19–9	40–13
#2	Kansas	20–10	42–14
#3	TCU	19–11	37–17
#4	Arizona	18–12	36–18	2–1 vs Arizona State
#5	Arizona State	18–12	35–21	1–2 vs Arizona
#6	Kansas State	17–13	31–23
#7	Oklahoma State	15–12	27–22
#8	Cincinnati	16–14	31–23
#9	Texas Tech	13–17	20–32	2–1 vs Baylor
#10	Baylor	13–17	33–21	1–2 vs Texas Tech
#11	Houston	12–17	29–24
#12	BYU	10–20	27–26

† First Round Bye
UCF & Utah did not qualify for the tournament

Bracket

	First round Wednesday, May 21					Quarterfinals Thursday, May 22					Semifinals Friday, May 23					Championship Saturday, May 24
						1	West Virginia	10
	8	Cincinnati	6			8	Cincinnati	3
	9	Texas Tech	5								1	West Virginia	1
											4	Arizona	12
						4	Arizona	4
	5	Arizona State	0			12	BYU	1
	12	BYU	2													4	Arizona	2(10)
																3	TCU	1
						2	Kansas	7
	7	Oklahoma State	4			7	Oklahoma State	6
	10	Baylor	3								2	Kansas	1
											3	TCU	11
						3	TCU	7
	6	Kansas State	2			11	Houston	1
	11	Houston	9

* denotes extra innings

Schedule

Game	Time	Matchup	Score	Box Score	Television	Attendance	Notes
First round – Wednesday, May 21
1	9:00 a.m.	No. 5 Arizona State vs. No. 12 BYU	0−2	[4]	ESPN+		Arizona State Eliminated
2	12:30 p.m.	No. 8 Cincinnati vs. No. 9 Texas Tech	6−5	[5]	ESPNU		Texas Tech Eliminated
3	4:00 p.m.	No. 7 Oklahoma State vs. No. 10 Baylor	4−3	[6]			Baylor Eliminated
4	8:00 p.m.	No. 6 Kansas State vs. No. 11 Houston	2−9	[7]	ESPN2		Kansas State Eliminated
Quarterfinals – Thursday, May 22
5	9:00 a.m.	No. 4 Arizona vs. No. 12 BYU	4−1	[8]	ESPN+	6,032	BYU Eliminated
6	12:30 p.m.	No. 1 West Virginia vs. No. 8 Cincinnati	10−3	[9]			Cincinnati Eliminated
7	4:00 p.m.	No. 2 Kansas vs. No. 7 Oklahoma State	7−6	[10]	ESPNU		Oklahoma State Eliminated
8	7:30 p.m.	No. 3 TCU vs. No. 11 Houston	7−1	[11]			Houston Eliminated
Semifinals – Friday, May 23
9	4:00 p.m.	No. 4 Arizona vs. No. 1 West Virginia	12−1		ESPN+	4,257	West Virginia Eliminated
10	7:30 p.m.	No. 2 Kansas vs. No. 3 TCU	1−11				Kansas Eliminated
Championship – Saturday, May 23
11	6:00 p.m.	No. 4 Arizona vs. No. 3 TCU	2−1(10)		ESPNU	5,126	TCU Eliminated
Game times in CT. Rankings denote tournament seed.

Conference Championship Game

Big 12 Championship
(4)Arizona Wildcats	vs.	(3)TCU Horned Frogs

May 29, 2022 6:03 p.m. (CDT) at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	R	H	E
Arizona	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	6	0
TCU	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	6	2
WP: T. Pluta(2–0)   LP: B.Sloan(3–4) Home runs: ARIZ: A. Cain (8) TCU: None Attendance: 5,126

All-tournament Team

The following players were members of the 2025 Big 12 Baseball All-Tournament Team. Player in Bold selected as Tournament MVP.

Position	Player	School
C	Jack Natili	Cincinnati
1B	Brady Ballinger	Kansas
2B	Cole Cramer	TCU
3B	Jack Bell	TCU
	Maddox Mihalakis	Arizona
SS	Mason White (MVP)	Arizona
OF	Brendan Summerhill	Arizona
	Noah Franco	TCU
	Kyle West	West Virginia
DH	Sawyer Strosnider	TCU
SP	Tommy Lapour	TCU
	Griffin Kim	West Virginia
RP	Tony Pluta	Arizona

References

1. "2025 Baseball Standings". Big 12 Conference. Retrieved May 17, 2025.
2. "Big 12 Postseason Championship Schedule". Big 12 Conference. Retrieved November 30, 2022.
3. "2025 Phillips 66 Big 12 Baseball Championship". Big 12 Conference. Retrieved November 30, 2022.
4. "BYU vs ASU Game 1" (PDF).
5. "Texas Tech vs Cincinnati Game 2" (PDF).
6. "Baylor vs Oklahoma State Game 3" (PDF).
7. "Houston vs Kansas State Game 4".
8. "Arizona vs BYU Game 5" (PDF).
9. "WVU vs Cincinnati Game 6" (PDF).
10. "Kansas vs Oklahoma State Game 7" (PDF).
11. "TCU vs Houston Game 8" (PDF).