Texas Grabs No. 2 Seed In Big 12 Tournament After Win vs. Kansas

The Longhorns will have a first-round bye in the Big 12 Tournament

The path is clear to a Big 12 title. Can Texas Men's Basketball clinch it before the start of March Madness? 

The Longhorns will serve as the No. 2 seed in the Big 12 Tournament next week in Kansas City. Texas will have a bye in Round 1 and will face the winner of No. 7 seed Oklahoma State or No. 10 seed Oklahoma in the quarterfinals on Thursday. 

Fighting for either the No. 2 or No. 3 seed, Texas secured its status as the second-best program in the conference with a 75-59 win over No. 3 Kansas in their season finale Saturday evening. The Jayhawks (25-6, 12-6 Big 12) had already clinched the No. 1 seed entering Saturday's match at the Moody Center, but a loss for Texas would have placed the program at No. 3 behind Kansas State. 

The seeding marks the highest rating for Texas since 2011, when the program also nabbed a No. 2 seed in the Big 12 Tournament before making a run in the NCAA Tournament to the Round of 32. 

The Big 12 Tournament begins Wednesday, March 8, with first-round games at the T-Mobile Center. All of the tournament games will be televised nationally on ESPN channels.

All time, the Longhorns are 28-23 in the tournament and 1-6 in the championship game. Here's a list of every game leading up to the quarterfinals:

Wednesday
No. 8 West Virginia vs. No. 9 Texas Tech
6:00 p.m. on ESPN2/U

No. 7 Oklahoma State vs. No. 10 Oklahoma
8:30 p.m. on ESPN2/U

Thursday
No. 4 Baylor vs. No. 5 Iowa State
11:30 a.m. on ESPN/2

No. 1 Kansas vs. Game 1 winner
2:00 p.m. on ESPN/2

No. 2 Texas vs. Game 2 winner
6:00 p.m. on ESPN/2

No. 3 Kansas State vs. No. 6 TCU
8:30 p.m. on ESPN/2

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