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Hoop fans, get yourself ready for the 16th Annual Big Ten/ACC Challenge coming December 1st, 2nd, and 3rd!
ESPN, ESPN2, and ESPNU will combine to televise all 14 games of the three-day event matching top college basketball programs playing for conference supremacy and the Commissioners Cup.
If you want to get tuned in to for the tip-offs, the times and televison networks are as follows:
* All times Central
Monday, December 1st:
Nebraska at Florida State (ESPN2)- 6pm
Rutgers at Clemson (ESPNU)- 6pm
Tuesday, December 2nd:
Pittsburgh at Indiana (ESPN2)- 6pm
Minnesota at Wake Forest (ESPNU)- 6pm
# 21 Syracuse at # 24 Michigan (ESPN)- 6:30pm
Illinois at Miami (ESPN2 or ESPNU)- 8pm
NC State at Purdue (ESPN2 or ESPNU)- 8pm
Ohio State at # 8 Louisville (ESPN)- 8:30pm
Wednesday, December 3rd:
#18 Michigan State at Notre Dame (ESPN2)- 6:15pm
Virginia Tech at Penn State (ESPNU)- 6:15pm
# 25 Iowa at # 6 North Carolina (ESPN)- 6:30pm
# 7 Virginia at Maryland (ESPN2)- 8:15pm
Georgia Tech at Northwestern (ESPNU)- 8:15pm
# 2 Duke at # 4 Wisconsin (ESPN)- 8:30pm
According to bigten.org, the ACC and Big Ten have split the past two events, winning six Challenge games each in 2012 and 2013. In the event of a tie, the Commissioner’s Cup remains with the conference that won the previous year, which was the Big Ten in 2011. The ACC won the first 10 Challenges (1999-2008), while the Big Ten won the next three (2009-2011).
