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2014-2015 B1G Men's Basketball

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DZ83CK said:
Of course PSU, NW and Rutgers will be awful.
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He might be one more recruiting class (one year) away, but I actually trust Chris Collins more than some other Big Ten coaches like Pitino. But it's also still Northwestern, so there aren't any guarantees anyone can make them a perennial tournament team (especially since they've never made the tourney).
 
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2014 ACC-Big Ten challenge. Official release will be made at 4 PM today. Looks like we will be playing at Louisville :biggrin:
The refurbished ACC and Big Ten will stage some high-profile matchups in their annual challenge series in the coming season, highlighted by national championship contenders Duke and Wisconsin clashing in Madison on the second night of the event.

In other notable matchups, Syracuse will visit Michigan, Ohio State will travel to Louisville, Indiana will host Pittburgh and North Carolina will welcome Iowa to Chapel Hill, sources confirmed to SI.com. Maryland, which left the ACC at the end of this past season to join the Big Ten, will face longtime rival Virginia to College Park.

The entire lineup is set to be revealed at 4 p.m. ET on Thursday.

Duke and Wisconsin should be among the nation’s elite in 2014-15 — the Blue Devils thanks to an overloaded recruiting class led by No. 1 prospect Jahlil Okafor and top-10 guard Tyus Jones, and the Badgers because they return nearly the entire rotation that made a Final Four run this season, including forwards Frank Kaminsky and Sam Dekker.

Louisville is entering its first season in the ACC after spending the 2013-14 campaign as a member of the American Athletic Conference. Syracuse, Pittsburgh and Notre Dame just completed their first years as ACC members.
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http://college-basketball.si.com/20...cuse-michigan-acc-big-ten-challenge-matchups/
 
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I did not see this at the end of this past but Ohio State is going to play UNC in Chicago. They also have a home game against Marquette scheduled.
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio State coach Thad Matta said on his final radio show of the season Monday night that the Buckeyes will play North Carolina in a nonconference event in December next season.

• Matta says Ross decision yet to be made, reports says junior is gone

Previously it had been announced that the Buckeyes would be part of a four-team rotating event with North Carolina, Kentucky and UCLA the next three years, where the teams would play a double-header at a different neutral site each season.

This announcement from Matta confirmed the first opponent for Ohio State, the Tar Heels, and the first site of the event in Chicago. He said it should be played in late December, like the Buckeyes' nonconference game with Notre Dame in New York this season. That game was played on Dec. 21. The other two years the event will be played at one site in the West and one site in the East.
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http://www.cleveland.com/osu/index.ssf/2014/05/report_ohio_state_to_play_at_l.html#incart_river
 
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LitlBuck said:
2014 ACC-Big Ten challenge. Official release will be made at 4 PM today. Looks like we will be playing at Louisville :biggrin:
http://college-basketball.si.com/20...cuse-michigan-acc-big-ten-challenge-matchups/
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OSU-Louisville was the matchup I was hoping for. Makes perfect sense. Now that finally the ACC has more than 3 good teams, OSU shouldn't have any shortage of marquee matchups in the Challenge. But now it's kind of hard to like the Big Ten's chances overall since the ACC is stacked. But at least they can't keep their worst 3 teams out of the Challenge this year like they did last season.

This Challenge is going to have more games than any before obviously, 14 games. With 12 packed into 2 days. Several interesting matchups, but the number of less appealing ones (Rutgers-Clemson, Illinois-Miami, Minnesota-Wake Forest, GT-N'western, VT-PSU) has also grown.
 
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DZ83CK said:
OSU-Louisville was the matchup I was hoping for.
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I think we should play Louisville every year. In addition to the much needed boost in competition for our non conference schedule, they could become a significant rival. I think fans of both teams would look forward to the game every year, and it would also get some national interest.
 
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colobuck79 said:
I think we should play Louisville every year. In addition to the much needed boost in competition for our non conference schedule, they could become a significant rival. I think fans of both teams would look forward to the game every year, and it would also get some national interest.
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and that way Matta would have the pleasure of beating 2 brothers every season:biggrin2:
 
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colobuck79 said:
I think we should play Louisville every year. In addition to the much needed boost in competition for our non conference schedule, they could become a significant rival. I think fans of both teams would look forward to the game every year, and it would also get some national interest.
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I doubt that we would ever see that series in this day and age. The nonconference schedule has been littered with patsies every year under Matta because it is possibly better financially and definitely better for the W/L record, and unfortunately that type of scheduling (with no long-standing nonconference series) seems like it is here to stay for OSU.

But I like having a nonconference schedule where you know going in you're going to have at least two marquee opponents that should make the tournament in Louisville and UNC. Compared to last year's schedule without as much of a marquee opponent, that is a positive change. Marquette was the best nonconference opponent they had last year and now they're going to be 3rd-best, which is more appropriate considering they are in a down cycle. I will hope for some more marquee nonconference opponents this upcoming season but I doubt that that will happen.
 
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OHSportsFan said:
Rumors of a BigTen/Big East challenge coming. Conferences set to have a press conference tomorrow at Madison Square Garden.

A lot of matchups would make sense:
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Really liked hearing that news, and agree that there are a lot of interesting matchups potentially. Now the big question is will OSU go from 3 big nonconference games a year to 4? Or will they just have these "Challenge" games replace the one traditional home & home series that they schedule now? I would hope they will still have a typical home & home outside of these "Challenge" games but I'm worried that OSU will just cut out the one series they already do.

It seems like a home & home with Xavier is imminent with this news. Also, isn't Dayton going to that league eventually?
 
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Buckeye737 said:
There is speculation that St. Louis and Dayton are the next two additions to the Big East, but I haven't heard anything solid on that. Hopefully it will happen for UD's sake.
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I think the Big East will expand sometime in the near future and go to 12 teams, and probably the event with the Big Ten will expand as a result to maybe 10 games a year. So I would guess that OSU will play in this event every year ultimately, although right now that looks impossible since they are requiring every B1G team to play at least 4 games in the 8 years, and that only leaves 8 games for extras by my count and I doubt they would spend 4 of those 8 on OSU.
 
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