2009-10 Big 12 Conference Men's Basketball Season

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Big 12 Conference is a college athletic conference of twelve schools located in the Central United States, with its headquarters located in Las Colinas, an upscale, developed area in the Dallas suburb of Irving, Texas. It is a member of the NCAA's Division I for all sports; its football teams compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS; formerly Division I-A), the higher of two levels of NCAA Division I football competition. Member schools are located in Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas. The conference was officially formed on February 25, 1994, when the members of the Big Eight Conference joined with four Texas schools from the Southwest Conference. Although the Big 12 is essentially the old Big Eight plus the four Texas schools, it regards itself as a separate conference (as opposed to an enlarged Big Eight) and does not claim the Big Eight's history as its own. The conference is split into two divisions for most major sports.