Regular Season and Tournament Seeding
To kick off the beginning of the 2007–2008 Big 12 men's basketball season a poll of the head coaches of the Big 12 men's basketball programs found that Kansas was the preseason favorite to win the conference for a second consecutive year and receiving 10 of 12 first place votes. In second place was Texas, the 2006–2007 season's runner-up for both the regular season title and tournament title. Texas A&M was dubbed for third place and received the remaining 2 first place votes. Aggies head coach Billy Gillespie left at the end of the previous season to take up the head coaching position at Kentucky. Another important coaching change came when Bob Huggins left Kansas State after one season to return to his alma mater, West Virginia. Nonetheless, KSU was selected for fourth place in the poll, the school's highest ever selection in the conference pre-season poll. Missouri and Oklahoma tied for fifth place while Oklahoma State and Texas Tech came in seventh and eighth place, respectively. Baylor, Nebraska, Iowa State, and Colorado took the final four spots, respectively. With identical conference records of 13–3, the Texas Longhorns and the Kansas Jayhawks share the 2008 regular season title. Because Texas won the head-to-head game with Kansas, they claim the No. 1 seed for the tournament.
| Standings | |||||||
| Conference | Total | Post-Tournament Play | |||||
| Seed | School | W | L | W | L | NCAA/NIT | Result |
| 1 | Texas* | 13 | 3 | 28 | 6 | NCAA | Elite 8 |
| 2 | Kansas*† | 13 | 3 | 31 | 3 | NCAA | National Champions |
| 3 | Kansas State | 10 | 6 | 20 | 11 | NCAA | 2nd Round |
| 4 | Oklahoma | 9 | 7 | 22 | 11 | NCAA | 2nd Round |
| 5 | Baylor | 9 | 7 | 21 | 10 | NCAA | 1st Round |
| 6 | Texas A&M | 8 | 8 | 24 | 10 | NCAA | 2nd Round |
| 7 | Nebraska | 7 | 9 | 19 | 12 | NIT | 2nd Round |
| 8 | Texas Tech | 7 | 9 | 16 | 15 | See note1 | |
| 9 | Oklahoma State | 7 | 9 | 17 | 15 | NIT | 1st Round |
| 10 | Missouri | 6 | 10 | 16 | 16 | See note1 | |
| 11 | Iowa State | 4 | 12 | 14 | 18 | ||
| 12 | Colorado | 3 | 13 | 12 | 20 | ||
† – Denotes Tournament Champion. * – Denotes Regular Season Champion 1 – Texas Tech and Missouri were invited to the 2008 College Basketball Invitational but declined the offer.
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