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Tar Heels get Buckeyes in eighth ACC-Big Ten Challenge

May 2, 2006
CBS SportsLine.com wire reports
North Carolina and Ohio State, programs with two of the better incoming freshman classes, will meet in one of the feature pairings of the eighth annual ACC-Big Ten Challenge.
Duke, the only school to be 7-0 in the challenge, will face Indiana for the second season in a row. The Blue Devils won last year's game 75-67 as the ACC won the matchup of two of the country's top conferences for the seventh consecutive season.
The 11 games, announced Tuesday by the two conferences, will be played Nov. 27-29.
Michigan is at North Carolina State on Nov. 27. The games on Nov. 28 are: Maryland at Illinois; Florida State at Wisconsin; Penn State at Georgia Tech; Indiana at Duke; and Miami at Northwestern.
In addition to Ohio State at North Carolina on Nov. 29, Michigan State is at Boston College; Virginia is at Purdue; Iowa is at Virginia Tech; and Clemson is at Minnesota.
Seven-foot Greg Oden and his Lawrence North (Ind.) H.S. teammate Michael Conley headline Ohio State's freshman class. North Carolina has freshman Tyler Hansbrough back from last season's team that finished 10th in the final poll, and he will be joined by an incoming led by point guard Tywon Lawson of Oak Hill (Va.) Academy.
http://www.sportsline.com/collegebasketball/story/9413480
 
Dispatch

5/3/06

OSU MEN’S BASKETBALL

North Carolina awaits Nov. 29

Tar Heels will play host to Buckeyes early next season

Wednesday, May 03, 2006

Bob Baptist
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

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When North Carolina and Ohio State signed the highestrated recruiting classes in men’s basketball for 2006, it seemed logical for ESPN to pit them against each other in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge next season.

The matchup was officially announced
yesterday. The Tar Heels will play host to the Buckeyes on Nov. 29 in Chapel Hill, N.C. The game is scheduled for 9 p.m. and will be televised by ESPN.

Both teams are expected to be ranked among the top 10 nationally before the season. North Carolina’s six-man freshman class includes three of the top seven rated prospects in the class. Ohio State’s four freshmen rank among the top 31 and include the consensus No. 1, 7-foot-1 center Greg Oden.

"It should be a tremendous test for our guys early in the season," Ohio State coach Thad Matta said. "I know the environment will be a great challenge. You just hope the following year, we can get them back in the Schottenstein Center."

North Carolina and Ohio State last met in December 1993 in Chapel Hill, where the Tar Heels won 81-68. North Carolina leads the series 7-2.

The Tar Heels will be the sixth different opponent for the Buckeyes in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge. Ohio State has beaten North Carolina State and Virginia Tech and lost to Duke, Georgia Tech and Clemson.

Ohio State’s 2006-07 schedule also will include home games against Iowa State and San Francisco and a longawaited matchup with Cincinnati, which the Buckeyes have not played since the 1962 NCAA championship game.

That meeting will come in the Wooden Tradition on Dec. 16 in Indianapolis.

Other potential home games that have been rumored but not confirmed are against Coppin State and Youngstown State and a three-game, season-opening tournament Nov. 10-12 sponsored by the Black Coaches Association.

The Buckeyes are expected to play one game in Nationwide Arena, which will play host to NCAA Tournament first- and second-round games in March.

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Big Ten still looking for first Challenge title

November 27, 2006
By Herb Gould sun-times news group
It's time for that annual Midwestern exercise in college basketball futility known as the ACC/Big Ten Challenge.
When Michigan travels to N.C. State tonight to kick off the Round 8 of this event, the Atlantic Coast Conference will be going after its eighth knockout.
And considering that the Big Ten is undergoing an unusual amount of turnover this year, an eighth straight ACC triumph wouldn't be at all surprising.

SCHEDULE Today
Michigan at N.C. State, 6 p.m., ESPN2
Tuesday
No. 25 Maryland at Illinois, 6 p.m., ESPN
Florida State at No. 7 Wisconsin, 6:30 p.m. ESPN2
Penn State at No. 19 Georgia Tech, 7 p.m., ESPNU
Indiana at No. 9 Duke, 8 p.m., ESPN
Miami at Northwestern, 8:30 p.m., ESPN2
Wednesday
Michigan State at Boston College, 6 pm.., ESPN
Virginia at Purdue, 6:30 p.m., ESPN2
Iowa at Virginia Tech, 7 p.m., ESPNU
Clemson at Minnesota, 8:30 p.m., ESPN2
No. 4 Ohio State at No. 2 North Carolina, 8 p.m., ESPN


The Midwestern giant has only six of its top 25 scorers back. Only one of it top 10 rebounders, and only one of its top five assist leaders, return. Only four teams - Penn State, Wisconsin, Illinois and Michigan - returned more than two starters. You would think that an 0-7 mark would start to become embarrassing, if not downright humiliating.
But that's really not what the ACC/Big Ten Challenge is about.
What is it about?
Well, it's a great draw, in person and on TV. It's good for the bank accounts and it's good exposure. It's even palatable for Big Ten RPIs when you factor in that many of those ACC victories have been piled up by highly ranked teams.
It would be better exposure, of course, if the Big Ten was up to the Challenge occasionally. But Big Ten coaches aren't tearing their hair out trying to come up with ways to beat the ACC.
"We've talked about it," Illinois coach Bruce Weber said. "A lot of it comes down to matchups - who's at home, who's not - and winning some close games. Obviously, we'd like to win and get some bragging rights. But I'm not sure it's a major issue."
One problem is that year in and year out, the cream of the ACC tends to be better than the best of the Big Ten. Duke and North Carolina happen to be great places to start.
Another problem is that the bottom of the Big Ten tends to sink lower than its ACC counterparts. Northwestern, Minnesota and Penn State are perennial bottom feeders. Nor have Purdue and Michigan been their usual competitive selves in recent years.
Which is all a polite way of saying the ACC is a better league.
Those kinds of debates crop up every year. And the ACC matches up favorably with just about everybody in the nation. The lone exception might be the Big East, which has a lot of good teams but also has a lot of middling teams - the byproduct of having more outlets than Wal-Mart.
That said, this is a great opportunity for any number of Big Ten teams to show that they - and their league - are going to be better than the low expectations for this season.
Youthful but mysterious Ohio State could make a statement at North Carolina. Wisconsin needs to bounce back after an upset loss to Missouri State.
Indiana will give more clues to its first season under Kelvin Sampson when it travels to Duke. Unbeaten Illinois could crack the top 25 with a victory over Maryland.
Michigan State, Penn State and Michigan all have chances to show which directions they're heading. The list could go on.
One motivator for the Big Ten to end its ACC drought is to tone down ESPN's ACC-laden broadcasting squadron.
That's not irritating for the Midwesterners. They also believe it might influence recruiting as well as NCAA tournament bids and seeds.
"Last year, we were pretty good as a league," Weber said. "But we lost this thing and it gives some of those guys ammo to use every night on ESPN. It seems like they talk about it the rest of the year on TV, which doesn't help us."
Weber is pleased, to say the least, that former Illini Stephen Bardo has latched on to an ESPN microphone.
"That's a positive," Weber said. "I heard he's been a little biased toward the Big Ten. We need that voice. I'm happy people are complaining about him now."
Celebrating a victory in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge would say a lot more than any broadcasters - no matter where they're from.
Chicago Sun-Times
 
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ACC/Big Ten Challenge rarely telling

By Skip Myslenski - Chicago Tribune
Monday, November 27, 2006



Nice little go-round they?re playing this week, the ACC/Big Ten Challenge. Makes for full houses, good basketball, enticing TV and, lest we forget, fat paydays for both conferences.
But be cautious when analyzing the results. Come NCAA Tournament time, they?ll mean absolutely nothing.
The games are not mere exhibitions. They count toward RPI and can surely scramble the national rankings. Yet they are closer to that than games you?ll see as the tournament nears.
Countless schools are still searching and finding out about themselves. Take Duke.
?What kids do in practice and what they do in games in sometimes entirely different,? coach Mike Krzyzewski said just before the season. ?With some guys, they get better. Some kids, in a game, they?re so-called gamers. That?s why we play a pretty tough schedule even before exams.
?Some of our non-league schedule is against teams that may win their conferences, even the so-called mid-majors, whether it be George Mason or Kent State or Gonzaga. They?re teams that know how to win. That?s why we schedule them.
?By Christmastime, we?ll have a much better sense of who we are. That?s why I don?t want to set any expectation level. We?ll have to really evaluate what we?re doing as a coaching staff.?
Then you change and correct weaknesses. That was the conclusion implied by Krzyzewski, whose rotation features four freshmen, four sophomores, a junior and no seniors. That makes his Blue Devils the youngest team the school has fielded since World War II and the symbol of why the ACC/Big Ten Challenge is more warm-up than conclusion.
The Blue Devils are still unformed and unfinished, and they are hardly the only ones still growing. Ohio State, despite its unblemished record, awaits the return of heralded 7-foot-1-inch freshman center Greg Oden, who?s injured and expected back in January.
The same is true of North Carolina, the Buckeyes? opponent Wednesday night. The Tar Heels? top seven scorers are three freshmen, three sophomores and one senior.
?It?s not a tell-all,? coach Roy Williams said as he discussed facing Ohio State so early with a lineup so young. ?But it does give you a great deal of information. I like those kinds of game.?
When Maryland visits Illinois on Tuesday, the Terrapins will get more information about freshman point guards Eric Hayes and Greivis Vasquez. When Penn State visits Maui Invitational runner-up Georgia Tech the same night, the Nittany Lions will learn if their NCAA Tournament aspirations are valid. The Yellow Jackets, in turn, will learn more about freshman point guard Javaris Crittenton. A night later, Michigan State will learn how well it is rebuilding when it plays at Boston College.
Indiana will get a measure of how well it is adapting to new coach Kelvin Sampson on Tuesday when it visits Duke. Of all the teams taking part in the Challenge, the Blue Devils are the most obvious work in progress, which was evident last week when they fell to Marquette at the CBE Classic in Kansas City, Mo.
Sophomore guard Greg Paulus was recently back from a foot injury that had sidelined him for a month. Sophomore center Josh McRoberts missed makeable layups. Their freshmen, including Jon Scheyer, were constantly broken down by the Golden Eagles? superior speed, which forced Duke into 19 turnovers.
That 11-point loss left Krzyzewski to offer this explanation, which should be remembered when evaluating the Challenge.
?A lot of (Duke?s failures) had to do with playing in a game like this for the first time for some of our guys,? he said. ?We haven?t been in a game where you?re playing a really good team that really wants it and is forcing tempo. We?ll learn from it.
?We?re in transition ? (and) sometimes you?ve got to lose, sometimes you?ve got to look bad before you look good.?
 
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May 2, 2006
CBS SportsLine.com wire reports
North Carolina and Ohio State, programs with two of the better incoming freshman classes, will meet in one of the feature pairings of the eighth annual ACC-Big Ten Challenge.
Duke, the only school to be 7-0 in the challenge, will face Indiana for the second season in a row. The Blue Devils won last year's game 75-67 as the ACC won the matchup of two of the country's top conferences for the seventh consecutive season.
The 11 games, announced Tuesday by the two conferences, will be played Nov. 27-29.
Michigan is at North Carolina State on Nov. 27. The games on Nov. 28 are: Maryland at Illinois; Florida State at Wisconsin; Penn State at Georgia Tech; Indiana at Duke; and Miami at Northwestern.
In addition to Ohio State at North Carolina on Nov. 29, Michigan State is at Boston College; Virginia is at Purdue; Iowa is at Virginia Tech; and Clemson is at Minnesota.
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Sorry to say this, but the Challenge could prove to be unenjoyable for B11 fans once again this season. Early performance suggests that the only likely winners are Purdue, Michigan State, and maybe Wiscy and Michigan (though Amaker may find a way to lose). Buckeyes will have their hands full against Hansbrough and his crew.
 
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NC State looks dead tired... trying to just survive for the remaining minutes. Once that happened, UM finally showed new life.

UM fans better hope Roe isn't watching this.

9 pt lead < 3 min.
 
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