Big 12 Conference schools share record $470 million revenue distribution

Tony Adame

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The Big 12 Conference won’t look like any version of what it’s been in the past in the upcoming year. 

The money the league is bringing in doesn’t look like anything the league has ever seen before, either. 

At the league’s annual meetings on May 30, Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark announced the Big 12 schools shared $470 million in revenue distribution over the last year, up from $440 million in 2022-23. 

The Big 12 expanded to 14 teams in 2023-24 and will expand to 16 teams in 2024-26 with the addition of four schools from the Pac-12 — Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado and Utah — and the exits of Texas and Oklahoma to join the SEC. 

“We went with stability as a conference and we felt it was investing in all the right ways and for all the right reasons,” said Yormark, who came to the Big . “Clearly that was the right one for this conference as we think about where we’re going.”
 

Tony Adame

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Tony Adame covers the Big 12 Conference for The Sporting News. He is a graduate of Southern Oregon University and has been a sports journalist for 20 years. He has won APSE Awards for breaking news, games stories and feature writing. He is also the writer and host of the Florida Society of News Editors Award-winning podcast The Sheriff: Murder, Lies & Revenge in Okaloosa County for USA Today/Gannett.