The Big East–Big 12 Battle was an annual

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series in which teams from the

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faced teams of the

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. The series was played from 2019 to 2024. The Big East–Big 12 Battle originally was planned as a four-season competition to be played annually from 2019 through 2022, but on August 1, 2022, the two conferences announced a two-year extension of the series, with games also to be played in 2023 and 2024.Anonymous, "BIG EAST-Big 12 Battle Extended Two Years," bigeast.com, August 1, 2022 Accessed July 15, 2023
/ref> On April 10, 2024, Jon Rothstein of College Hoops Today reported that the Big East-Big 12 Battle would not continue past the 2024–25 season. In 2019, when the Big East consisted of 10 teams, all 10 Big East teams faced one of the 10 Big 12 teams. The Big East expanded to 11 teams when

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moved from the

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to the Big East for the 2020–2021 season, so from 2020 through 2022 ten of the eleven Big East teams faced one of the Big 12 teams and one Big East team did not participate, although four games scheduled for the 2020 series were canceled due to the

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. The Big 12 added four new schools to the conference in 2023, allowing all 11 Big East teams to participate each season, while three of the 14 Big 12 teams did not. With the Big 12 expanding to 16 teams in 2024, five of its teams sat out the final year of the challenge. In the 10-game format used from 2019 to 2022, each conference hosted five games each season. In the 11-game format for 2023 and 2024, the Big 12 hosted six games in 2023 and the Big East hosted six in 2024. The teams in the Big East-Big 12 Battle did not face each other all on the same day. Instead, they played each other over the span of as much as two and a half weeks, with games scheduled in late November and December in some years and solely in December in others. The Big East won the first series 8–2 in 2019, the next three series ended in a tie between the two conferences, and the Big 12 won the 2023 series 7–4 and the 2024 series 6–5. Overall, the Big East won 30 games and the Big 12 won 28. Big 12 home games aired on ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN+, and

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, while Big East home games aired on Fox and Fox Sports 1.

Conference and team records

Big East Conference (1–2–3)

NOTE: UConn moved from the

to the Big East Conference in 2020.

Big 12 Conference (2–1–3)

NOTES: In 2023, Cincinnati, Houston, and UCF moved from the

to the Big 12 Conference and BYU moved from the

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to the Big 12. In 2024, Arizona and Arizona State moved from the

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to the Big 12 and Oklahoma and Texas moved from the Big 12 to the

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Results

2019 Big East (8–2)

2020 Tied (3–3)

2021 Tied (5–5)

2022 Tied (5–5)

2023 Big 12 (7–4)

2024 Big 12 (6–5)

References

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