IRVING, Texas – The Monster Energy Big 12 Men’s Basketball tip-off times and linear television designations have been announced for the 2026-27 season with the Big 12 set to once again be the most widely distributed Conference in the country.
 
The Big 12’s Conference-controlled national television schedule includes a total of 164 matchups spanning five national network partners in ESPN (ABC/ESPN/ESPN2/ESPNU), CBS Sports (CBS, CBS Sports Network), FOX Sports (FOX, FS1), NBC (Peacock) and TNT (TNT, truTV).
 
The full schedule of Monster Energy Big 12 Men’s Basketball games on national networks can be found here.
 
A total of 69 Monster Energy Big 12 Men’s Basketball contests will air across the ESPN family of networks. The matchup between Texas Tech and Kansas in Lawrence on Feb. 6 will be broadcast on ABC. ESPN will also feature seven Big 12 schools on its Big Monday lineup, beginning with Kansas at Houston on Feb. 1. A trio of games, including Kansas at Iowa State, will also be played on Super Bowl Saturday on Feb. 13. All five schools in ESPN’s Preseason Top 25 rankings (No. 4 Arizona, No. 9 Texas Tech, No. 18 Houston, No. 19 Kansas and No. 20 BYU) will appear on ESPN during the 2026-27 season. All Conference games not selected for linear networks will be streamed on ESPN+.
 
An additional 34 matchups will air on FOX Sports throughout the 2026-27 Monster Energy Big 12 Men’s Basketball campaign. The FOX broadcast network will feature nine of those matchups with 23 appearing on FS1. UCF’s trip to Kansas on Jan. 16 and West Virginia at BYU on Jan. 23 will be on either FOX or FS1. The season openers for BYU (Ohio State) and Iowa State (Memphis) will appear on FS1 on Nov. 2. The league opener between Texas Tech and Cincinnati on Jan. 2 will be the first Conference game of the season broadcast on FOX.
 
CBS Sports will carry 26 Monster Energy Big 12 Men’s Basketball games this season, with six on CBS and 20 on CBS Sports Network. All six games on CBS will be league games, starting with West Virginia at Kansas on Jan. 2. Games airing on CBS will also stream live on Paramount+.
 
NBC will stream 20 contests from the Monster Energy Big 12 Men’s Basketball season on Peacock. BYU, TCU, Texas Tech and Utah will appear on Peacock during nonconference play before 16 league games are featured.
 
Fifteen Monster Energy Big 12 Men’s Basketball matchups will be aired by TNT. Three of those games will appear on truTV, including the league contest between Baylor and TCU on Jan. 19.
 
The Big 12 placed eight teams in the NCAA Tournament last season, including reigning league champion Arizona, which advanced to the Final Four. After producing a Conference-record 13 picks in the 2026 NBA Draft, including the No. 1 and No. 2 overall picks in BYU’s AJ Dybantsa and Kansas’ Darryn Peterson, the Big 12 once again projects to be a top league in the country with the nation’s top two recruits and 12 of the top 40 prospects primed to compete in the Conference this season.