Big 12 Conference
Jump to navigation
Jump to search

University of Texas at Austin playing football against Iowa State University
The Big 12 Conference is a college athletic conference that is part of the NCAA's Division I. It started when the Big 8 Conference joined together with four colleges from Texas that had been part of the Southwest Conference, and the first games in the Big 12 Conference were played in 1996.
Members[change | change source]
School | Location | Founded | Type | Nickname | Joined Big 12 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Baylor University | Waco, Texas | 1845 | Private | Bears[a 1] | 1996 |
Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa | 1858 | Public | Cyclones | 1996 |
University of Kansas | Lawrence, Kansas | 1865 | Public | Jayhawks | 1996 |
Kansas State University | Manhattan, Kansas | 1863 | Public | Wildcats | 1996 |
University of Oklahoma | Norman, Oklahoma | 1890 | Public | Sooners | 1996 |
Oklahoma State University–Stillwater | Stillwater, Oklahoma | 1890 | Public | Cowboys & Cowgirls |
1996 |
Texas Christian University (TCU) | Fort Worth, Texas | 1873 | Private | Horned Frogs[a 2] | 2012 |
University of Texas at Austin | Austin, Texas | 1883 | Public | Longhorns | 1996 |
Texas Tech University | Lubbock, Texas | 1923 | Public | Red Raiders[a 3] | 1996 |
West Virginia University | Morgantown, West Virginia | 1867 | Public | Mountaineers | 2012 |
- ↑ Some Baylor women's teams, notably the women's basketball team, use "Lady Bears" as their nickname.
- ↑ Some TCU women's teams, notably the women's basketball team, use "Lady Froga" as their nickname.
- ↑ The Texas Tech women's basketball team uses "Lady Raiders" as its nickname. All other women's teams use "Red Raiders".
Associate members[change | change source]
The Big 12 also has 10 "associate members". Nine of these play one sport in the conference, while one other school houses two sports in the Big 12.
Former members[change | change source]
Four schools have left the Big 12 since it was formed.
School | Location | Founded | Type | Nickname | Joined Big 12 |
Left Big 12 |
Current Conference |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
University of Colorado at Boulder | Boulder, Colorado | 1876 | Public | Buffaloes | 1996 | 2011 | Pac-12 |
University of Missouri | Columbia, Missouri | 1839 | Public | Tigers | 1996 | 2012 | SEC |
University of Nebraska–Lincoln | Lincoln, Nebraska | 1869 | Public | Cornhuskers | 1996 | 2011 | Big Ten |
Texas A&M University | College Station, Texas | 1876 | Public | Aggies | 1996 | 2012 | SEC |
References[change | change source]
![]() |
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Big 12 Conference. |
- "Big 12 Conference". big12sports.com. Retrieved 2014-06-13. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)