The Big 12 tournament will likely have a first-time winner of the event in 2024.
The Houston Cougars and BYU Cougars landed in the top five seeds in their first seasons in the conference.
The Baylor Bears and Texas Tech Red Raiders, two mainstays of the league, are seeded third and fourth and have never won the Big 12 tournament.
Only the second-seeded Iowa State Cyclones have won the Big 12 tournament in their program history. They last won in 2019.
The traditional Big 12 powers, like the Kansas Jayhawks and Texas Longhorns, must win four games in four days in the new format to cut down the nets in Kansas City.