Men’s College Hoops: Schedule Includes 12 SEC/BIG EAST Challenge Games Thursday-Saturday

November 26, 2012

ESPN’s upcoming men’s college basketball schedule of 25 games from Thursday, Nov. 29, to Sunday, Dec. 2, is highlighted by all 12 games of the 2nd annual SEC/BIG EAST Challenge. The three-day event includes three top-eight teams: defending national champion No. 8 Kentucky at Notre Dame, last season’s BIG EAST regular-season champion No. 6 Syracuse at Arkansas and Marquette at No. 7 Florida in a showdown of each conference’s 2012 second place finishers. The BIG EAST won the inaugural Challenge eight games to four.

In addition, ESPNU will televise four games involving at least one ranked team Saturday, Dec. 1: No. 3 Michigan at Bradley at 4 p.m., No. 14 North Carolina against UAB at 6 p.m., No. 9 Arizona at Texas Tech at 8 p.m. and No. 23 San Diego State vs. UCLA in the Wooden Classic at 10 p.m.

ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU and ESPN3 schedule through December 2

Date	Time	Game / Commentators	Network
Thu, Nov 29	7 p.m.	SEC/BIG EAST Challenge: No. 8 Kentucky at Notre Dame Dan Shulman & Dick Vitale	ESPN2
	7 p.m.	New Hampshire at Connecticut Bob Picozzi & Tim Welsh	ESPN3 & BIG EAST Network
	7:30 p.m.	SEC/BIG EAST Challenge: South Carolina at St. John’s Mike Crispino & Kara Lawson	ESPNU
	9 p.m.	SEC/BIG EAST Challenge: Marquette at No. 7 Florida Dave Pasch & Fran Fraschilla	ESPN2
	9:30 p.m.	SEC/BIG EAST Challenge: Seton Hall at LSU Tom Hart & Bob Valvano	ESPNU
Fri, Nov 30	6:30 p.m.	SEC/BIG EAST Challenge: Tennessee at No. 20 Georgetown TBD & Bob Knight	ESPN
	7 p.m.	SEC/BIG EAST Challenge: Georgia at South Florida Rich Hollenberg & Carolyn Peck	ESPNU
	8:30 p.m.	SEC/BIG EAST Challenge: No. 6 Syracuse at Arkansas Dave O’Brien & Jimmy Dykes	ESPN
	9 p.m.	SEC/BIG EAST Challenge: DePaul at Auburn Doug Bell & Stephen Howard	ESPNU
Sat, Dec 1	Noon	SEC/BIG EAST Challenge: Mississippi State at Providence Mike Crispino & Kara Lawson	ESPNU
	1 p.m.	NJIT at St. John’s	ESPN3
	2 p.m.	SEC/BIG EAST Challenge: Rutgers at Ole Miss Joe Davis & Joe Dean	ESPNU
	2 p.m.	Pennsylvania at Penn State Dave Leno & Nate Ross	ESPN3
	2 p.m.	No. 15 Oklahoma State at Virginia Tech Booker Corrigan & Cory Alexander	ESPN3
	3 p.m.	SEC/BIG EAST Challenge: Alabama at No. 17 Cincinnati Jon Sciambi & LaPhonso Ellis	ESPN2
	3 p.m.	St. Joseph’s at No. 11 Creighton Cory Provus & Mac McCausland	ESPN3
	4 p.m.	No. 3 Michigan at Bradley Jim Barbar & Bruce Pearl	ESPNU
	5 p.m.	SEC/BIG EAST Challenge: Villanova at Vanderbilt Bob Picozzi & Len Elmore	ESPN2
	6 p.m.	UAB at No. 14 North Carolina Clay Matvick & Jay Williams	ESPNU
	7 p.m.	Detroit at Pittsburgh Tim Neverett & Mark Adams	ESPN3
	8 p.m.	No. 9 Arizona at Texas Tech Roxy Bernstein & Stephen Bardo	ESPNU
	8 p.m.	UT Arlington at Texas Kevin Dunn, Reid Gettys & Kat Kelly	Longhorn Network
	10 p.m.	Wooden Classic: No. 23 San Diego State vs. UCLA (Anaheim) Dave Flemming & Sean Farnham	ESPNU
Sun, Dec 2	Noon	Clemson at South Carolina Dari Nowkhah & Dino Gaudio	ESPNU
	2 p.m.	Mercer at Florida State	ESPN3

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