Seeding Overview (16-Team Bracket Format)

The Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship uses a 5-round ladder featuring all 16 conference member institutions:

• Seeds 1 through 4 (Double-Bye): Receive an automatic bye directly into Round 3 (Quarterfinals).
• Seeds 5 through 8 (Single-Bye): Receive an automatic bye into Round 2 (Second Round).
• Seeds 9 through 16: Play in Round 1 (First Round matchups: 12 vs 13, 11 vs 14, 10 vs 15, 9 vs 16).

Two-Team Tiebreakers

The following hierarchy determines seeds when two teams finish with identical conference records:

1. Head-to-Head: Results of regular-season head-to-head competition between the tied teams.
2. Record vs Highest-Placed Team: Each team's winning percentage versus the team occupying the highest position in the final regular-season standings, continuing downward until an advantage is achieved.
   *(Note: 2-0 is not better than 1-0 or 0-0; 0-0 and 0-1 is not better than 0-2).*
3. Conference Road Record: Comparison of tied teams' conference-games-only road winning percentage.
4. Conference Road Record vs Highest-Placed Team: Road winning percentage versus the team(s) occupying the highest position in final standings, counting downward.
5. Draw: Random virtual public draw as the ultimate decider.

Multiple-Team Tiebreakers (3+ Teams)

When three or more teams finish with the same conference record:

1. Mini Round-Robin Head-to-Head: Collective winning percentage among the tied teams in head-to-head play.
   • If reduced to 2 teams during this process, revert to the Two-Team procedure starting with head-to-head.
   • If more than 2 remain tied, repeat mini round-robin among the subset.
2. Record vs Highest-Placed Team: Winning percentage against the highest-seeded non-tied teams in order of finish.
3. Conference Road Record: Conference-only road winning percentage.
4. Conference Road Record vs Highest-Placed Team: Down through standings.
5. Draw: Public lottery draw.