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Posted by catmandoo (Member # 1284) on 05-14-2015, 06:14 PM:

The game is part of the SEC vs Big 12 challenge and it will be played at Kansas.

All 10 of the Big 12’s teams and 10 of the SEC’s 14 member institutions will participate in this year’s event. Each of the 10 SEC teams participating in the 2016 Challenge will also play in the 2017 event.

Fourteen participating teams earned postseason berths in 2015 and nine of the 10 games will feature at least one team that participated in the 2015 NCAA Tournament.

The first two years of the challenge were played over several days in November and December but the 2016 event will be consolidated to one single day in January. A bye in the league schedule for participating teams was created to accommodate the new format. The four SEC teams not participating will play each other in conference games the same day.

Eight of the 10 games will be televised on ESPN or ESPN2 and two games will air on ESPNU. All 10 games will also be available via WatchESPN. ESPN’s College GameDay Covered by State Farm – the Saturday morning and evening roadshow that discusses the top storylines of the college basketball season – will originate from one of the Challenge games, to be announced at a later date.

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Posted by m hamilton (Member # 127) on 05-15-2015, 06:25 AM:

When was the last time we played a non-conference game in late January?

Posted by catmandoo (Member # 1284) on 05-15-2015, 09:16 AM:

We played Notre Dame in 2005 on the 29th of January.

Posted by m hamilton (Member # 127) on 05-15-2015, 09:45 PM:

I knew it didn't happen very often, I also heard the last time we won in Fogg Allen Fieldhouse Coach Cal was on the KU staff!

Posted by catmandoo (Member # 1284) on 05-15-2015, 10:11 PM:

It was 1983 and we won 72-50. Joe Hall was our coach and Larry Brown was coaching Kansas. Turpin scored 25 points and Jim Master scored 23. We were ranked #2 at the time and Kansas was not ranked.

Posted by m hamilton (Member # 127) on 05-16-2015, 06:29 AM:

It's handy that you are able to look this kind of stuff us, CMD.

Posted by catmandoo (Member # 1284) on 05-16-2015, 08:45 AM:

Thank you MH.