October 28, 2008 from press release (COLUMBIA, MO) The Missouri cross country teams will participate in the first Big 12 Conference Championship to be held in the 2008-09chool year on Saturday, taking to Iowa State's course in Ames. The Tiger men have finished in the league's top half in each of the last four years while the Tiger women have placed in the conference's top four in eight of the 11 years of the Big 12's existence.