KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Big 12 has canceled all league championship competitions until April 15, commissioner Bob Bowlsby announced Thursday morning.
The decision was made roughly 30 minutes before Texas Tech and Texas were scheduled to tip off the first of four tournament games scheduled for Thursday.
That decision sends West Virginia’s men’s and women’s basketball teams home from Kansas City without having played a single game in this year’s tournament. It also wipes out the conference gymnastics championship, which was to be held at WVU Coliseum on March 21.
Bowlsby reached the decision after meeting with all 10 of the Big 12’s athletic directors as well as speaking via teleconference with the commissioners of the ACC, SEC, Big Ten and Pac-12.