Who is the coach of the team who will receive the conference's automatic bid to the 2017 NCAA Tournament with a 80–74 win over West Virginia in the finals?
2017 Big 12 Men's Basketball Tournament The 2017 Phillips 66 Big 12 Men's Basketball Tournament was a postseason men's basketball tournament for the Big 12 Conference. It was played from March 8 to 11, in Kansas City, Missouri at the Sprint Center. Iowa State will receive the conference's automatic bid to the 2017 NCAA Tournament with a 80–74 win over West Virginia in the finals.
Tony Bennett (basketball) Anthony Guy Bennett (born June 1, 1969) is the head coach of the Virginia Cavaliers men's basketball team since March 31, 2009. Bennett is regarded as the best defensive coach in the NCAA (according to a 2015 CBS Sports survey of opposing coaches) and his motion offense is praised as one of the most efficient and elite. He is a two-time winner of the prestigious Henry Iba Award for the nation's top coach as voted by the USBWA, and has also won the Jim Phelan Award and other National Coach of the Year honors from the AP and Naismith.