Big 12 Opponents Revealed for Cowboys’ 2024-25 Basketball Season

The Cowboys now know the conference gauntlet they’ll have to go through in the first year of the Steve Lutz era.

The Big 12 on Thursday announced its basketball scheduling matrix for the 2024-25 season. The days of playing every conference foe home and away in a campaign ended last season with the additions of BYU, Cincinnati, Houston and UCF. The conference will enter another refresh this upcoming school year with Oklahoma and Texas on the way out, and Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado and Utah joining.

Here is a look at which teams the Cowboys will play where next school year:

Both: UCF, Houston, Kansas State, Texas Tech, Utah
Home: Arizona, Arizona State, Cincinnati, Colorado, Iowa State
Away: Baylor, BYU, Kansas, TCU, West Virginia

Newcomers Coming to GIA

So all four of the league’s newcomers will make a trip to Gallagher-Iba Arena. The only newcomer the Cowboys will travel to is Utah.

The Cowboys are 0-3 all-time against Arizona, but none of those meetings have come in Stillwater. The teams most recently played in the 2005 Sweet 16, a game Arizona won by a point.

OSU is 5-3 against Arizona State with two of those games being played in Stillwater. The last time the Sun Devils made the trip was in 1995, a game OSU won 90-85. Before that, the teams met in Stillwater in 1965, with OSU winning 61-49. The teams last met regardless of location in Oklahoma City in 1997 with OSU winning that game 79-68.

Colorado and OSU have a long history on the hardwood with the Buffaloes being in the conference before CU left for the Pac-12 ahead of the 2011-12 season. OSU is 61-48 against the Buffaloes all-time including a 37-10 record in Stillwater. The teams last met in Stillwater in 2010, when OSU beat CU 90-78. The teams last met in Las Vegas in 2013, a game OSU won 78-73.

OSU and Utah have met five times, with the Cowboys winning four of those matchups. Their only meeting in Stillwater came in 1953, a game OSU won 71-44. The teams have met twice in Salt Lake City — OSU beat the Utes 73-59 in 1956 and fell 89-73 in 1980. Their last meeting came in Vegas in 2009, a game OSU won 77-55.

Other Notes

The Cowboys will make their first trip to Orlando, playing the Knights home and away this upcoming season. It’ll be just the fourth and fifth meetings between the programs, and all have been recent. OSU fell to the Knights in the Bahamas in 2022 before falling twice to UCF last season — once in GIA and again in Kansas City.

OSU fans will have to travel to Lawrence if they want to see the Cowboys face the Jayhawks. It’ll be the first time since 2011 KU hasn’t played a game in GIA.

It’ll be just the third time Cincinnati has played in Stillwater and the Bearcats’ first as a conference foe. Cincy last played in GIA in 2001, a game OSU won 69-62. Before that, they met in Stillwater in 1958, when OSU won 61-57.

OSU won’t host former point guard Javon Small, but the newly committed Patrick Suemnick will travel to his old arena. In an unofficial trade of sorts, Small committed to West Virginia out of the transfer portal and Suemnick is headed from West Virginia to OSU.

OSU Women’s Big 12 Matrix

Both: Cincinnati, Kansas, West Virginia
Home: Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado, Iowa State, Kansas State, TCU
Away: Baylor, BYU, UCF, Houston