Big 12 Women's Basketball Linear TV Coverage Expands to Seven-Year High for 2025-26 Season

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POSTED: October 13, 2025 -- 5:25 p.m. CT

The Big 12 Conference, in partnership with ESPN and FOX Sports, has announced its women's basketball linear television schedule for the 2025-26 season, the most games picked up for national broadcast from the league's television package in seven years. A total of 20 league-controlled selections will be showcased by the Conference's broadcast partners throughout the season, plus other marquee matchups at neutral sites.

Coverage begins on the opening day of the season with the Oui Play on Monday, Nov. 3 from Paris. The matchup features Duke vs. Baylor at 11 a.m. CT on ESPN. The Bears will then take on Iowa in the WBCA Showcase at 8 p.m. CT on Thursday, Nov. 20 on ESPN2.

Friday, Nov. 14 will see West Virginia and Jordan Harrison will take on Duke at The Greenbrier Tipoff at 6 p.m. CT on ESPNU.

On Friday, Nov. 21, Utah and Maty Wilke take on Syracuse in Uncasville, Connecticut, at 4 p.m. CT on FS2 before facing defending national champion UConn at 1:30 p.m. CT on FS1 Sunday, Nov. 23, as part of the Hall of Fame Women's Showcase.

Following that, the coverage continues with two in-state, non-conference rivalries. Iowa State and Audi Crooks host Iowa on Wednesday, Dec. 10, at 6 p.m. CT on ESPN, followed by Oklahoma State, led by Stailee Heard, facing Oklahoma on Saturday, Dec. 13, at 3 p.m. CT on ESPNU from Oklahoma City.

The following day on Sunday, Dec. 14, Baylor will compete against Texas in the inaugural Sprouts Farmers Market espnW Invitational in Fort Worth. The game is set to tip at 12 p.m. CT on ABC.

Big 12 play tips off the following weekend as Iowa State hosts Kansas and standout S'Mya Nichols on Sunday, Dec. 21, at 12 p.m. CT on ESPN2.

Defending Big 12 Champion TCU will go up against Ohio State in the Coretta Scott King Classic on Martin Luther King Jr. Day at 11 a.m. CT Monday, Jan. 19 on FOX.

In total, ESPN networks will feature nine Big 12 league contests, including two Thursday night showcase matchups with Kansas taking on TCU on Thursday, Jan. 29, at 5 p.m. CT and the Horned Frogs heading to Waco to face Baylor on Thursday, Feb. 12, at 6 p.m. ET. Both games will air on ESPN.

FOX Sports' family of networks will also carry nine Conference games, including a special President's Day showdown between Oklahoma State and Utah from Stillwater on Monday, Feb. 16, at 1 p.m. CT on FOX.

Both networks will air two of the season's most anticipated matchups across women's college basketball as Taryn Sides and K-State host Iowa State at 1 p.m. CT on FS1 while TCU and Olivia Miles host Baylor and Darianna Littlepage-Buggs at 3 p.m. CT, the final day of the regular season Sunday, March 1.

Throughout the 2025-26 season, 144 Big 12 women's basketball league games will be televised across ESPN platforms (ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN+) and FOX Sports platforms (FOX, FS1), delivering unmatched coverage of one of the nation's premier conferences.

The 2025-26 season tips off Monday, Nov. 3, while league play officially begins Saturday, Dec. 20.

Last season, the Big 12 made history with at least five teams finishing in the Associated Press Top 25 in consecutive seasons for the first time since 2010 (2008-10). The league has sent multiple teams to the Sweet 16 in four of the past five NCAA Tournaments and has advanced at least two teams to the regional semifinals in 22 of the last 25 tournaments, tied for the second-highest percentage (88%) among all conferences during that span.

Entering the 2025-26 season, ESPN ranked three Big 12 programs among its Top 10 women's basketball transfer portal winners, while three Big 12 signees were selected to participate in the McDonald's All-American Game.

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