Baylor men’s basketball now knows the road ahead for the 2026-27 Big 12 season, and it opens with a familiar kind of test: Kansas State coming to Foster Pavilion on Saturday, Jan. 2.
The Big 12 released the full conference slate, giving the Bears an 18-game league schedule that stretches from that January opener all the way to the Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship in Kansas City, Mo. in March. Baylor’s regular season closes at home against Kansas on Saturday, March 6 before the team heads to T-Mobile Center for the conference tournament, set for March 9-13.
The early stretch is packed. After the home date with Kansas State, Baylor goes to Texas Tech in Lubbock on Jan. 6, then turns around for a busy nine-day run that starts with Houston in Waco on Jan.
- From there, the Bears visit UCF in Orlando on Jan. 13, come back to host Oklahoma State on Jan. 16, and then finish the month with a road trip to TCU on Jan.
- Baylor also has a neutral-site non-conference game against Louisville in Indianapolis on Jan. 23 before returning to Foster Pavilion to face Colorado on Jan.
February brings more of the same, with no shortage of travel. Baylor opens the month in Salt Lake City against Utah on Jan. 30, then heads to BYU on Feb.
- UCF comes back to Waco on Feb. 6, followed by Cincinnati visiting Foster Pavilion on Feb.
- The Bears then hit the road for back-to-back games at Colorado on Feb. 13 and at Kansas on Feb. 17 in Allen Fieldhouse.
The home stretch of the schedule gives Baylor a couple more chances in Waco, with West Virginia coming in on Feb. 20 and Iowa State on Feb. 23. Then it’s back out west for the final road swing, starting at Arizona on Feb. 27 and continuing at Arizona State on March 2.
Broadcast selections and tipoff times will be announced in the coming weeks.
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