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Big 12 softball tournament
Conference softball championship
Sport Softball
Conference Big 12 Conference
Current stadium ASA Hall of Fame Stadium
Current location Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Played1996–2010
2017–present
Last contest 2023
Current champion Oklahoma Sooners
Most championships Oklahoma Sooners (8)
Official website Big12Sports.com Softball

The Big 12 softball tournament (sometimes known simply as the Big 12 championship) is the conference championship tournament in college softball for the Big 12 Conference (Big 12). Since its inception in 1996, the tournament has been played at ASA Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The winner receives the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Division I softball tournament. The Big 12 stopped holding a postseason conference tournament after the 2010 competition. In 2017, the Big 12 Conference revised the tournament, which is still hosted at ASA Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City.

Champions

Year-by-year

Year School MOP
1996 Oklahoma Jill Most ( Oklahoma)
1997 Missouri Barb Wright ( Missouri)
1998 Nebraska Jenny Voss ( Nebraska)
1999 Texas Jennifer Lizama ( Nebraska)
2000 Nebraska Jennifer Lizama ( Nebraska)
2001 Oklahoma Lisa Carey ( Oklahoma)
2002 Texas Cat Osterman ( Texas)
2003 Texas Cat Osterman ( Texas)
2004 Nebraska Peaches James ( Nebraska)
2005 Texas Cat Osterman ( Texas)
2006 Kansas Serena Settlemier ( Kansas)
2007 Oklahoma Lauren Eckermann ( Oklahoma)
2008 Texas A&M Megan Gibson ( Texas A&M)
2009 Missouri Chelsea Thomas ( Missouri)
2010 Oklahoma Keilani Ricketts ( Oklahoma)
2011-2016 Tournament not held
2017 Oklahoma Paige Parker ( Oklahoma)
2018 Oklahoma Nicole Pendley ( Oklahoma)
2019 Cancelled due to rain
2020 Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021 Oklahoma Kinzie Hansen ( Oklahoma)
2022 Oklahoma State Morgan Day (Oklahoma State)
2023 Oklahoma Hayley Lee ( Oklahoma)

By school

Current Members

School Appearances W L Pct Titles Title Years
Baylor 19 17 27 .386 0
Iowa State 21 10 28 .263 0
Kansas 18 16 24 .400 1 2006
Oklahoma 21 52 19 .732 8 1996, 2001, 2007, 2010, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2023
Oklahoma State 21 27 31 .466 1 2022
Texas 20 31 25 .554 4 1999, 2002, 2003, 2005
Texas Tech 21 15 30 .333 0

Former Members

School Appearances W L Pct Titles Title Years
Missouri 18 26 21 .553 2 1997, 2009
Nebraska 18 33 19 .635 3 1998, 2000, 2004
Texas A&M 18 19 22 .463 1 2008

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