https://static.big12sports.com/custompages/championships/pdfs/2012_mbasketball_bracket.pdf
MU represented the Big 12 in the NCAA tournament field that year as the conference’s champion with its automatic bid. All other Big 12 participants were at large bids based on committee assessments of their overall body of work. If the NCAA was still in it’s pre-expansion to 64 format before at large bids were included MU would have been the only participant from the Big 12 and everyone else would have been jockeying for slots in the NIT.
Edited by FIJItiger at 11:07:07 on 08/07/22