The 2023 Big 12 Men's Basketball Tournament was a postseason men's basketball tournament for the

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. It was played from March 8 to 11 in

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at the

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. Texas won the tournament to earn the conference's automatic bid to the 2023 NCAA Tournament. The tournament was sponsored by

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Seeds

All ten teams will participate in the tournament. It will be the final season with the 10 team bracket format as the Big 12 will expand to 14 teams for the 2023–24 season before going to 12 in 2024–25 with the departures of

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and

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. The top six teams will receive a first-round bye. Teams are seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.

Schedule

Bracket

All-Tournament Team

''Most Outstanding Player'' –

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, ''Texas''

References

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Big 12 men's basketball tournament

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