4 Weekend Dwelling Games Spotlight 2025-26 Big 12 Schedule

MANHATTAN, Kan. – Weekend residence dates with BYU, Kansas, Iowa State and TCU spotlight Kansas State’s Big 12 Conference-only schedule, which was launched by the league workplace on Tuesday afternoon (Sept. 23).
 
The 2026 Big 12 schedule marks a return to an 18-game format after utilizing a 20-game slate in 2025 with the additions of Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado and Utah. The league used an 18-game schedule from 2012-24. The conference-only schedule will run from the primary week of January to the second week of March with every crew enjoying 9 video games at residence and on the highway.
 
Okay-State will play each Big 12 member not less than as soon as with home-and-home matchups with Kansas, TCU and West Virginia.
 
Game occasions and tv info can be launched at a later date.
 
Okay-State will open the Big 12 schedule in opposition to anticipated top-25 opponent BYU on Saturday, Jan. 3 earlier than internet hosting Kansas within the Dillons Sunflower Showdown on Saturday, Jan. 24, together with weekend matchups with Iowa State on Sunday, Feb. 1 and TCU on Saturday, Feb. 28.
 
Other residence video games embrace UCF on Wednesday, Jan. 14, Utah on Tuesday, Jan. 20, Cincinnati on Wednesday, Feb. 11, Baylor on Tuesday, Feb. 17 and West Virginia on Tuesday, March 3.
 
The highway portion of the Big 12 schedule begins with back-to-back journeys to Arizona (Wednesday, Jan. 7) and Arizona State (Saturday, Jan. 10). The Wildcats even have consecutive highway journeys on one different event with visits to Texas Tech on Saturday, Feb. 21 and Colorado on Wednesday, Feb. 25.
 
Other highway journeys embrace Oklahoma State on Saturday, Jan. 17, West Virginia on Tuesday, Jan. 27, TCU on Saturday, Feb. 7, Houston on Saturday, Feb. 14 and Kansas on Saturday, March 7.
 
The expanded Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship will run Tuesday-Saturday, March 10-14 on the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City and can coincide with the ladies’s championship, which runs Thursday-Monday, March 5-9, additionally at T-Mobile.
 
Tickets for the 2025-26 season are presently on sale with quite a lot of choices and packages. Fans should purchase tickets by calling toll free at (800) 221.CATS (2287) and/or on-line at www.kstatesports.com/tickets.
 
Fourteen of the 16 Big 12 groups received not less than 16 video games in 2024-25 with eight profitable not less than 20 video games, together with 35 wins by league champion and nationwide runner-up Houston. Thirteen groups made the postseason a season in the past, together with NCAA Tournament appearances by Arizona, Baylor, BYU, Houston, Iowa State, Kansas and Texas Tech.
 
Okay-State completed the 2024-25 season with a 16-17 document, together with a tie for ninth within the Big 12 with a 11th of September mark. Among the Wildcats’ 16 victories had been 5 over Top 25 groups, together with No. 3 Iowa State on the highway. The crew has received 61 video games in head coach Jerome Tang‘s tenure, together with two postseason appearances.
 
SCHEDULE NOTES

• The Big 12 will return to an 18-game league schedule in 2025-26, enjoying 9 at residence and 9 on the highway… It is a return to a format they instituted from 2012-24 earlier than transferring to a 20-game schedule in 2024-25.
• Okay-State will open Big 12 in opposition to BYU for the primary time in sequence historical past… The Wildcats have received their 2 all-time residence conferences (1973, 2024) with the Cougars.
• Okay-State will play at Arizona for the primary time as convention foes and the primary time total since 1999… The two faculties performed 5 home-and-home sequence between 1951-81.
• Okay-State will play at Arizona State for the second consecutive season after rallying for a 71-70 win in Tempe on Feb. 4… The Wildcats are 2-2 all-time at Desert Financial Arena.
• Okay-State will host UCF for the third time, together with the second time in Big 12 play, with wins in 2003 and 2024.
• Okay-State will face Oklahoma State simply as soon as on Jan. 17 at Gallagher-Iba Arena after having met twice yearly since 2012.
• Okay-State will host Utah for the primary time at Bramlage Coliseum on Jan. 20… The Utes haven’t performed in Manhattan since an 87-82 win on Dec. 1, 1973.
• Okay-State and Kansas will renew their rivalry in Manhattan on Jan. 24 earlier than ending the season in Lawrence on March 7…. The faculties have performed a home-and-home sequence yearly since 1912 and have performed not less than as soon as yearly since 1907… It is the sixth-most performed rivalry (303) in Division I males’s basketball.
• The first of two conferences with West Virginia will come on the highway on Jan. 27 with Okay-State profitable 81-67 within the final matchup on Jan. 9, 2024… The return recreation at Bramlage Coliseum will come on Senior Day on March 3 with the Wildcats profitable the final 4 conferences at residence.
• Okay-State and Iowa State will play simply as soon as on Sunday, Feb. 1 after assembly home-and-away yearly since 1918 in a sequence courting to 1909.
• Okay-State and TCU will play twice within the common season for the primary time since 2023, beginning in Fort Worth on Feb. 7 earlier than the matchup in Manhattan on Feb. 28… The Horned Frogs have received the three conferences within the sequence, together with 63-62 at residence final season.
• Okay-State will host Cincinnati for the second straight season on Feb. 11… The Wildcats snapped an 8-game shedding streak within the sequence with a sweep of a home-and-home sequence.
• Okay-State’s lone matchups with Houston (Feb. 14), Baylor (Feb. 17), Texas Tech (Feb. 21) and Colorado (Feb. 25) will are available in a row from Feb. 14-25.
• The Wildcats will go to Boulder for the primary time since 2011 on Feb. 25.

 
2025-26 Men’s Basketball Schedule
 

Day	Date	Opponent	Time	TV
Friday	Oct. 24	@Missouri	9 p.m.	SEC Network
Friday	Oct. 31	Newman	TBA	TBA
Tuesday	Nov. 4	UNC Greensboro	TBA	TBA
Saturday	Nov. 8	Bellarmine	TBA	TBA
Thursday	Nov. 13	California	TBA	TBA
Monday	Nov. 17	Tulsa	TBA	TBA
Thursday	Nov. 20	vs. Mississippi State	TBA	TBA
Friday	Nov. 21	vs. Nebraska/New Mexico	TBA	TBA
Tuesday	Nov. 25	@Indiana	TBA	TBA
Monday	Dec. 1	Bowling Green	TBA	TBA
Saturday	Dec. 6	Seton Hall	TBA	TBA
Monday	Dec. 8	Mississippi Valley State	TBA	TBA
Saturday	Dec. 13	@Creighton	TBA	TBA
Saturday	Dec. 20	South Dakota	TBA	TBA
Sunday	Dec. 28	ULM	TBA	TBA
Saturday	Jan. 3	BYU*	TBA	TBA
Wednesday	Jan. 7	@Arizona*	TBA	TBA
Saturday	Jan. 10	@Arizona State*	TBA	TBA
Wednesday	Jan. 14	UCF*	TBA	TBA
Saturday	Jan. 17	@Oklahoma State*	TBA	TBA
Tuesday	Jan. 20	Utah*	TBA	TBA
Saturday	Jan. 24	Kansas*	TBA	TBA
Tuesday	Jan. 27	@West Virginia*	TBA	TBA
Sunday	Feb. 1	Iowa State*	TBA	TBA
Saturday	Feb. 7	@TCU*	TBA	TBA
Wednesday	Feb. 11	Cincinnati*	TBA	TBA
Saturday	Feb. 14	@Houston*	TBA	TBA
Tuesday	Feb. 17	Baylor*	TBA	TBA
Saturday	Feb. 21	@Texas Tech*	TBA	TBA
Wednesday	Feb. 25	@Colorado*	TBA	TBA
Saturday	Feb. 28	TCU*	TBA	TBA
Tuesday	March 3	West Virginia*	TBA	TBA
Saturday	March 7	@Kansas*	TBA	TBA

 
 
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