should be interesting. i hope this will lead to a Big East/SEC Challenge in the future (although I think a ACC/SEC one would be better)

http://www.cyclones.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=10700&ATCLID=745364

key matchups:

Oklahoma vs. USC (with OJ Mayo)
Washington vs. OK St.
Texas v. UCLA
Arizona vs. A&M (and vs. Kansas a week prior to challenge)
ASU vs. Nebraska

1/11/2007 7:36:09 PM

USC should be playing Kansas State, they will have 2 of the best freshman classes in the country, with Mayo at USC and that Beasly guy at Kansas St.

We pair up the Big 10 and SEC, and the ACC can take on the Big East.

But we might be at a disadvantage since they have like 16 teams and could leave their bottom feeders at home.

1/11/2007 7:40:49 PM

overkill

1/11/2007 7:45:15 PM

agreed, but it'll give the corn farmin' hicks out there something to talk about between football seasons

1/11/2007 7:46:43 PM

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"(although I think a ACC/SEC one would be better) "

For the, what, 3 SEC schools that actually care about the sport?

1/11/2007 7:53:34 PM

there could be a strong argument that Kentucky, Florida, LSU, Georgia, Arkansas, Bama, Tennessee, Vandy and SC all care quite a lot about basketball....


a lot more than Miami, FSU, Clemson (aside from this season) and VT care about b-ball

1/11/2007 7:59:34 PM

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"there could be a strong argument that Kentucky, Florida, LSU, Georgia, Arkansas, Bama, Tennessee, Vandy and SC all care quite a lot about basketball...."

[Edited on January 11, 2007 at 9:13 PM. Reason : ]

1/11/2007 9:13:15 PM

Care or not the SEC is stronger than the ACC this year.

1/11/2007 9:28:21 PM

USC is the defending NIT Chmaps, so I'd say there's probably some interest in that program
Arkansas has an NCAA trophy, so I'm sure they care about b-ball there
Vandy sucks at everything, but at least they try hard in b-ball
you might be right about UGA
Bama was top-10 and that automatically brings some interest


notice I didn't say that those schools are b-ball schools, because obviously they're not, but they are just as much b-ball schools as we're a football school

1/11/2007 10:23:06 PM