Arizona leads the Big 12 tournament field, but plenty of contenders can win the title. A breakdown of the field, schedule and top players.

The Big 12 tournament could play a huge part in determining which teams enter March Madness as No. 1 seeds.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Brayden Burries had 21 points, Tobe Awaka had 12 points and 12 rebounds, and second-ranked Arizona blew most of a big first-half lead before pulling away again for a 81-59 victory over UCF in the quarterfinals of the Big 12 Tournament on Thursday.

Arizona had one final gut-check moment before the Big 12 Conference Tournament last weekend, when the second-ranked Wildcats had to rally from 11 down to beat Colorado to finish with the most regular-season wins in program history.

The Big 12 honored the Arizona Wildcats for their impressive regular season with several conference accolades, including player and coach of the year.

“Kansas City as the site for the Big 12 basketball championships is blah. It doesn’t work for fans in Arizona and Utah,” Hansen wrote. “The Big Ten is not taking the easiest route by anchoring at one site. It moves its basketball tournament in an attempt to satisfy all parts of its geographically diverse, 18-team conference.”

The Wildcats fought through the teeth of the conference, learning what it could take to make an NCAA Tournament run.

Here are the All-Big 12 first and second teams and postseason awards as voted on by USA TODAY Network reporters who cover the conference.