The Big 12 has filled in the rest of Oklahoma State’s basketball road map.
On Thursday, the conference unveiled its schedules for men’s and women’s basketball, giving the Cowboys and Cowgirls a full look at what’s ahead once the nonconference slate gives way to league play. For Steve Lutz’s men, that means the Big 12 portion now sits alongside a nonconference schedule that already includes several major-conference opponents and teams that reached the NCAA Tournament.
The women’s schedule brings its own set of headline dates, including a trip to Iowa State on Jan. 9 and the regular-season finale against the Cyclones on Feb. 27. That Iowa State game carries an added note because it comes against the former home of Cowgirl center Audi Crooks.
For the Cowgirls, the Big 12 run opens Jan. 3 at home against West Virginia and continues through a March 3-8 conference tournament in Kansas City, Mo. Along the way, they’ll face Arizona State at home on Feb. 7, travel to Baylor on Feb. 21, and close the regular season with that home meeting against Iowa State.
The women’s conference schedule also includes a stretch that features Kansas on Jan. 13, BYU on Jan.
16, Utah on Jan. 19, Cincinnati on Jan.
23, TCU on Jan. 28, Houston on Jan. 31 and UCF on Feb.
The Cowboys, meanwhile, open conference play Jan. 2 at home against Colorado and finish the regular season March 6 at home against Arizona State before heading to the Big 12 Tournament in Kansas City from March 9-13.
Their league slate features road trips to West Virginia on Jan. 5, Iowa State on Jan.
9, Baylor on Jan. 16, Kansas on Jan.
30, Kansas State on Feb. 3, Houston on Feb.
21, Utah on Feb. 27 and BYU on March 2. Home dates include Utah on Jan.
12, TCU on Jan. 23, Texas Tech on Jan.
27, Cincinnati on Feb. 6, Iowa State on Feb.
10, Arizona on Feb. 16, UCF on Feb. 24 and Arizona State on March 6.
Before the conference grind begins, the men’s nonconference schedule includes exhibition games against New Mexico on Oct. 11, Tulsa on Oct. 23 and at Wisconsin on Oct.
- The regular season starts Nov. 2 against Incarnate Word and also includes home games against Queens, Central Arkansas, Jackson State, Tennessee State, Grand Canyon, St.
Mary’s, Oral Roberts and Houston Christian, plus road and neutral-site matchups against Texas A&M, Minnesota and Virginia Tech in Charleston, S.C., and Northwestern at the BOK Center in Tulsa.
One of the most notable nonconference dates lands on Dec. 12, when the Bedlam game is set for Paycom Center in Oklahoma City.
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