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The SEC/Big East Challenge is an in-season NCAA college basketball series, matching up teams from the Southeastern Conference and the Big East Conference. The event, which was first held in 2007, has taken place in early December, before the start of conference play.

Each annual series includes four games featuring four teams from each conference. The games are held as two double-headers in two different typically off-campus sites. Though most of the sites are not home arenas for the teams featured in the event, many have been in the same cities as one of the participants. Madison Square Garden in New York City hosted a double-header in 2009 that featured the St. John's Red Storm, who use the Garden as their home arena for some games. In 2010, two games were held at Freedom Hall in Louisville, Kentucky, which served as the Louisville Cardinals home arena until the end of the 2009–10 season. Other venues are occasional home venues for invitational participants. Villanova occasionally plays at the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia, where they participated in the first year of the Invitational in 2007. Pittsburgh occasionally hosts games in the Consol Energy Center since in opened in 2010, where they played in the invitational in December of that year.

In the inaugural series in 2007, the Big East won three games to the SEC's one. The two conferences tied, with each team winning two games in 2008 and 2009. In the 2010 series, the SEC won for the first time, three games to one.

2011–12 Format Change

On December 16, 2010 It was announced by ESPN, that the Big East and the SEC have agreed to change the format for the SEC/Big East Invitational. The new BIG EAST/SEC Challenge format will feature 12 games over three days beginning on the Thursday after Thanksgiving of each year. All 12 games each year will be played at home campus sites with each conference hosting six games a year. [1]

Twelve games annually will allow all SEC teams to participate annually. Four of the Big East's sixteen members will be excluded.

Team records

Results

Wells Fargo Center (formerly Wachovia Center), Philadelphia.
Madison Square Garden, New York City.
St. Pete Times Forum, Tampa.
Consol Energy Center, Pittsburgh.

2007

Date SEC Team Big East Team Location Television Attendance Winner Conference
Leader
December 5 Alabama #4 Georgetown BJCC Arena (Birmingham, Alabama) ESPN Georgetown, 70–60[2] Big East (1–0)
Auburn West Virginia BJCC Arena (Birmingham, Alabama ESPN2 10,481 West Virginia, 88–59[3] Big East (2–0)
December 6 South Carolina Providence Wachovia Center (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) ESPN2 South Carolina, 68–67[4] Big East (2–1)
LSU #21 Villanova ESPN Villanova, 68–67[5] Big East (3–1)

2008

Date SEC Team Big East Team Location Television Attendance Winner Conference
Leader
December 16 Vanderbilt South Florida Sommet Center (Nashville, Tennessee) ESPN2 Vanderbilt, 71–52[6] SEC (1–0)
#19 Tennessee #23 Marquette ESPN Tennessee, 80–68[7] SEC (2–0)
December 18 Mississippi State Cincinnati U.S. Bank Arena (Cincinnati, Ohio) ESPN2 Cincinnati, 75–63[8] SEC (2–1)
Ole Miss #9 Louisville ESPN 9,522 Louisville, 77–68[9] Tied (2–2)

2009

Date SEC Team Big East Team Location Television Attendance Winner Conference
Leader
December 9 Georgia St. John's Madison Square Garden (New York, New York) ESPN2 St. John's, 66–56[10] Big East (1–0)
#4 Kentucky #12 Connecticut ESPN 15,874 Kentucky, 64–61[11] Tied (1–1)
December 10 Mississippi State DePaul St. Pete Times Forum (Tampa, Florida) ESPN2 Mississippi State, 76–45[12] SEC (2–1)
#11 Florida #6 Syracuse ESPN 9,353 Syracuse, 85–73[13] Tied (2–2)

2010

Date SEC Team Big East Team Location Television Attendance Winner Conference
Leader
December 8 Arkansas Seton Hall Freedom Hall (Louisville, Kentucky) ESPN2 Arkansas, 71–62[14] SEC (1–0)
#16 Kentucky #23 Notre Dame ESPN Kentucky, 72–58[15] SEC (2–0)
December 11 Auburn Rutgers CONSOL Energy Center, (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) ESPN2 Rutgers, 63–54[16] SEC (2–1)
#13 Tennessee #3 Pittsburgh ESPN 15,166 Tennessee, 83–76 [17] SEC (3–1)

2011

Date Time Big East Team SEC Team Location Television Attendance Winner Challenge
Leader
Thurs., Dec. 1 7:00 PM Providence South Carolina Colonial Life Arena • Columbia, SC ESPNU
7,476
 Providence, 76-67[18]
Big East (1-0)
7:30 PM St. John's #1 Kentucky Rupp Arena • Lexington, KY ESPN2
24,119
 Kentucky, 81-59[19]
Tie (1-1)
9:00 PM DePaul Ole Miss Allstate Arena • Rosemont, IL ESPNU
7,129
 Ole Miss, 70-68[20]
SEC (2-1)
9:30 PM Georgetown #12 Alabama Coleman Coliseum • Tuscaloosa, AL ESPN2
15,383
 Georgetown, 57-55[21]
Tie (2-2)
Fri., Dec. 2 7:00 PM #3 Syracuse #9 Florida Carrier Dome • Syracuse, NY ESPN
Syracuse, 72-68
Big Eas (3-2)
7:00 PM Cincinnati Georgia Stegeman Coliseum • Athens, GA ESPNU
Cincinnati, 57-51
Big East 4-2
9:00 PM #6 Louisville #19 Vanderbilt KFC Yum! Center • Louisville, KY ESPN
9:00 PM Seton Hall Auburn Prudential Center • Newark, NJ ESPNU
Sat., Dec. 3 3:15 PM #10 Connecticut Arkansas XL Center • Hartford, CT ESPN
5:15 PM #17 Pittsburgh Tennessee Thompson-Boling Arena • Knoxville, TN ESPN
7:00 PM Rutgers LSU Louis Brown Athletic Center • Piscataway, NJ ESPNU
9:00 PM West Virginia #24 Mississippi State Humphrey Coliseum • Starkville, MS ESPNU
First year that the invitational will feature 12 games – All times Eastern
Notre Dame, Marquette, Villanova and South Florida will not play for the Big East.

References

  1. ^ http://www.bigeast.org/News/tabid/435/Article/217870/BIG-EAST-and-SEC-Conferences-to-Square-Off-in-New-Men%E2%80%99s-Basketball-Challenge-.aspx
  2. ^ http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/recap?gameId=273390333
  3. ^ http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/recap?gameId=273390002
  4. ^ http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/recap/_/id/273402507/south-carolina-gamecocks-vs-providence-friars
  5. ^ http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/recap/_/id/273400222/lsu-tigers-vs-villanova-wildcats
  6. ^ http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/recap/_/id/283510238/south-florida-bulls-vs-vanderbilt-commodores
  7. ^ http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/recap/_/id/283512633/marquette-golden-eagles-vs-tennessee-volunteers
  8. ^ http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/recap/_/id/283532132/mississippi-state-bulldogs-vs-cincinnati-bearcats
  9. ^ http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/recap/_/id/283530097/boxscore?gameId=283530097
  10. ^ http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/boxscore?gameId=293432599
  11. ^ http://espn.go.com/ncb/preview?gameId=293430041
  12. ^ http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/recap?gameId=293440344
  13. ^ http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/recap?gameId=293440057&source=ESPNUHeadlines
  14. ^ http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/recap?gameId=303420008
  15. ^ http://espn.go.com/ncb/recap?gameId=303420096
  16. ^ http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/recap?gameId=303450164&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
  17. ^ http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/recap?gameId=303450221
  18. ^ http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/boxscore?gameId=313352579
  19. ^ http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/boxscore?gameId=313350096
  20. ^ http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/recap?gameId=313350305
  21. ^ http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/recap?gameId=313350333

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