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College Basketball: Big 12/SEC Challenge Television Schedule Released

By James Fitzgerald

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When the Big 12/SEC Challenge hits your TV screens January 30, 2016, eight of the 10 games will be aired on ESPN or ESPN2 with two other games to be televised on ESPNU “The Worldwide Leader” announced this week.

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Usually this event is played from November to December, but this year it is going to be on one sole day featuring all 10 of the Big 12’s college hoop squads against 10 of the 12 SEC teams in the conference.

The event will start at noon with two games tipping off when Bob Huggins takes his West Virginia Mountaineers to Gainesville, FL to take on the Florida Gators led by their new head coach Michael White.

That game will be running simultaneously with coach Kevin Stallings and his Vanderbilt Commodores traveling to Austin, TX  to deal with Shaka Smart’s Texas Longhorns.

A total of 14 teams that are in the 2016 Big 12/SEC challenge earned postseason bids last season.

Other games of interest include the Georgia Bulldogs taking their veteran back court of Charles Mann and Kenny Gaines into Waco, Texas to face Rico Gathers, Taurean Prince, and the Baylor Bears.

Lon Kruger’s Oklahoma Sooners are going to have a pretty tough road test on their hands when they travel to Baton Rouge to Ben Simmons, Tim Quarterman and LSU Tigers.

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    • It has been well-documented how well LSU head coach Johnny Jones recruited in 2015 bringing the No. 3 class nationally.

    It will be interesting to see what they do against a veteran Oklahoma Sooners’ team.

    The marquee matchup for the Big12/SEC Challenge has to be at Allen Fieldhouse when John Calipari and the Kentucky Wildcats go to face Bill Self’s Kansas Jayhawks.

    The four SEC teams that will not be participating in the Big 12/SEC Challenge will face each other in scheduled SEC play matchups with Avery Johnson leading his Alabama Crimson Tide into  going on the road to play against Frank Martin’s South Carolina Gamecocks and Ben Howland taking his Mississippi State Bulldogs to face the Missouri Tigers.

    Here is the full slate of game for the Big 12/SEC Challenge.

    2016 Big 12/SEC Challenge Presented By Sonic

    West Virginia at Florida                   ESPN/2           Noon ET

    Vanderbilt at Texas                          ESPN/2           Noon ET

    Tennessee at TCU                            ESPN2             2 p.m. ET

    Ole Miss at Kansas State                 ESPNU            2 p.m. ET

    Texas Tech at Arkansas                   ESPNU            4 p.m. ET

    Georgia at Baylor                             ESPN2             6 p.m. ET

    Oklahoma State at Auburn             ESPN2             8 p.m. ET

    Kentucky at Kansas                          ESPN               no earlier than 2 p.m. ET, no later than 7 p.m. ET

    Oklahoma at LSU                              ESPN               no earlier than 2 p.m. ET, no later than 7 p.m. ET

    Iowa State at Texas A&M                ESPN               no earlier than 2 p.m. ET, no later than 7 p.m. ET

    The start times for the three flex games will be announced the week of Jan. 4

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