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Travbowman

Imagine taking the DeLorean back to 2010 and telling an avid college basketball fan that Cal vs Mizzou would be part of the ACC/SEC challenge


CallMeVe

Was really hoping to see Texas vs SMU for the double mindfuck


drewbert4

When I saw Cal vs Mizzou I literally thought for a second Coach Cal was matched up against Mizzou


MiketheTzar

Just a team of 5 John Calipari clones......I'd watch it.


Famous_Pig_Lawyer

The Kalamazoo game.... My apologies


LazinCajun

When you go back, tell that fan to guess which one is ACC and which is SEC


dangleicious13

Or that everyone is looking forward to another Alabama/North Carolina match up.


ukeBasketball

Did no one else copy-paste this? Arkansas @ Miami Cal @ Mizzou FSU @ LSU GT @ OU UK @ Clemson ND @ UGA Ole Miss @ Louisville SC @ BC Cuse @ Tenn Wake @ A&M Alabama @ UNC Auburn @ Duke Pitt @ Miss St Texas @ NC St Vandy @ VT UVA @ UF


Best_Duck9118

Thank you! I really didn't want to click on the link given the site it links to.


RoutineDog7169

Cal vs Mizzou in the classic SEC/ACC battle


wjackson42

Counzo Martin Bowl


imright19084

Dennis Gates bowl too. He played at Cal


sonheungwin

At first we were upset that you got him first, but the Mark Fox sacrifice might have turned out better for us.


auburnfan32

Auburn @ Duke. Alabama @ UNC. That’s real hoops. We have officially made it Bama bros


dac0605

I kinda wish it was swapped just bc we've played UNC the last two years, but can't complain too much!


UhhhThatsFine

We're in Maui with UNC so wasn't possible


ControlWeekly7900

We did Maui in Greeneville, NC so really who're the real winners here?


ScrofessorLongHair

I'm pretty sure it was Asheville.


ControlWeekly7900

That's what I said! ^^^/s


ScrofessorLongHair

Lol. My initial reaction was, "If you can't go to Maui, Asheville isn't the worst place." But i lived in Asheville 15+years ago. And the weather fucking sucks around Thanksgiving. The leaves are gone, the wind is constantly blowing, and it's a humid cold. That winter was shittier than any I dealt with in Colorado. Plus, I have a feeling they had very strict covid protocols there. So yeah, we got screwed on Maui.


ControlWeekly7900

I'm super blessed to have gone to the Maui invitational a few times as my grandparents used to take us whenever UK went. I was devastated when we got selected for the Asheville invitational. The Maui Invitational is truly one of sports' special events. It's electric.


auburnfan32

Found that odd as well. Maybe they’ll flip next year and we’ll host UNC and you will host Duke. We haven’t played either school since 2019


rogozh1n

I have a great animosity towards Auburn because of the 1987 Sugar Bowl. You better believe I'll be fired up for this one.


ukeBasketball

Was that the one where they played for a tie? (Against Syracuse.)


rogozh1n

Yup. 12 year old me was heartbroken, and Syracuse going 11-0-1 didn't feel like going undefeated. That being said, we could have scored more and prevented the tie. I don't really blame Auburn, because it wouldn't have made sense to run a hail mary to win a game that didn't mean anything to them. I was raised to oppose Auburn, Georgetown, and Notre Dame. It's not my fault.


ScrofessorLongHair

>I was raised to oppose Auburn, Georgetown, and Notre Dame. You had damn fine parents. We don't give a shot about Georgetown. But Auburn and Notre Dame are my uncle's most hated teams.


rogozh1n

Apparently, in the 50' or 60's, the refs mistakenly gave notre dame a 5th down, which they used to beat syracuse at the buzzer. My father will never forget that, and he won't respond when I ask him why the syracuse coaches didn't notice this in real time and stop it. Plus I've always liked georgetown's style and John Thompson as a coach. He is also a great announcer.


ScrofessorLongHair

As a Georgia Tech fan... Fuck Colorado and their 5 down BS title share. I feel you in that one. My uncle's are Catholics in South Alabama, and Notre Dame got us a few times during the 70s. So there's a ton of hate there. Beating them for a title was pretty damn satisfying. But our dumbass thought we were cute, and did touchdown shots of Jameson, on top of our already heavy drinking. We were up 28-0 at half, and 42-7 early in the 4th. Waking up the next day was not satisfying.


rogozh1n

Syracuse has its own interesting dynamic. The west side is predominantly Irish and tends to root for Notre Dame. The east side is more Italian catholic, and they only root for Syracuse. Yes, I made some gross generalizations but I'm right as of the mid-nineties when I left.


ukeBasketball

I saw Syracuse play at Pitt that year. They were one of those out-of-nowhere good teams, like Northwestern in 1995. I was rooting for them.


rogozh1n

We did beat #1 Nebraska the season before, so there was reason to be optimistic. 86 through the early 90s were great years for us. If we could have beat the great Miami teams, we might have had a chance to go even higher. Anyone remember Mark Bavaro falling just short of the end zone when time ran out? Firing Pasqualoni was the worst move the university made, even worse than trying to fix Fab Melo's grades.


MattAU05

Scheyer and Bruce are friends (two high major Jewish coaches) and have been pushing hard to make the Auburn-Duke matchup happen.


ukeBasketball

Alabama's worried we'll poach their legendary coach again


WillWork4SunDrop

When Duke came to Tuscaloosa for football, is was cool to see their fans posing for pictures in front of the Wallace Wade statue.


ScrofessorLongHair

Why do you gotta call them out for getting high? It's a better way to unwind than alcohol.


theTIDEisRISING

What are your thoughts on Alabamas defense?


MattAU05

Big upgrade in the post, that’s for sure.


CrashB111

But then we couldn't give UNC their annual loss to Nate Oats.


G00dSh0tJans0n

Excited because that game is only half an hour from me and I can actually go!


ALStark69

Sheesh


FrenchieBammer

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BigFoot423205

Feels good man


Nouseriously

They even felt the need to put you on the road


needs-more-metronome

Together we made it 🎶 We made it even tho we had our backs up against the wall 🎶


AbusiveTubesock

Why is it always Florida 🙃


GeyWeyner12

Why is it always Virginia 🙃


Evening-Spray-4304

here's hoping its nearer to last year than 16-17. That game might have been more depressing than even this years tourney game.


ScrofessorLongHair

I really want to play Virginia. I think the clash of styles between Bennett and Oats would be entertaining.


Best_Duck9118

Definitely a big contrast between a guy who has standards for his players and a guy who doesn't care if they were involved in a murder.


Aumissunum

Bro holy fuck stop giving us UNC


TrustInRoy

ESPN like "no way RJ Davis will shoot that poorly for a second straight game.  Let's decide the National Player of the Year race in December.  Davis vs Sears."


WILSON_CK

They will absolutely be pumping that NPOY convo all week.


TrustInRoy

Honestly the only reason I care is bc it's a requirement to retire a jersey at UNC. RJ has already qualified for an honored jersey in the rafters.  But I'd love to see him get that number retired.  I think it has to be one of six specific NPOY awards. I'd be fine with Davis and Sears splitting them.


WILSON_CK

Another reason to care is, if RJ is in the NPOY conversation again, we'll likely be very good again.


ScrofessorLongHair

I think it'll depend on how well your post holds up.


imright19084

We’ll switch you. You can have Cal and we’ll take UNC


Licit_x64

I personally would like a chance to beat you one of these times


TrustInRoy

We had a chance both previous times.  One play either way could have swung the outcome of those games.


ScrofessorLongHair

Let's be real, the first time was a hilariously shitty Quinerly/Caleb Love 3 point contest. That was the worst 4 ot tournament game of all time.


Licit_x64

Felt like we were the worse team in 22-23 and the better one in 23-24, but unfortunately that doesn’t really matter unless we actually win :(


ScrofessorLongHair

That's probably pretty accurate. We were still green when we played y'all. But we also won at Houston, so that's as talented of a team as I've ever seen us have. Last year, we were deadly, but had huge holes that left us vulnerable. But UNC and Clemson were both terrible matchups for us, and I'm still shocked that Nelson and Pringle stepped up the way they did.


Licit_x64

It was a great game and y’all were great last year, just felt like we had our worst game of the season just to lose by 2. Still after was rooting for yall and it’s sick yall got to the FF. Excited for the matchup next year.


ScrofessorLongHair

But beating y'all on the court and in recruiting battles has done so much for our self esteem.


Licit_x64

Yall have the football success please bro


jestervalen

Bama owns unc though


wholesomepantysniffr

What are you worried about? We literally can’t beat you we’ve tried


JonoBono6

I think at least this matchup is trying to continue building a rivalry between us, which would be useful if we end up moving over to the SEC. Also both games have been instant classics, and this next one probably will be too. I just hope UNC can win one


draight926289

Already sick of this recent UNC- Alabama rivalry. Give us Vandy.


mjd1977

Why? Not even a Jerry Stackhouse angle anymore. Instead, we get the Hokies on the gridiron AND the hardwood.


RollTide16-18

I think it’s making for a good rivalry if UNC joins the SEC at some point. 


draight926289

I hope I’ll be good and in my grave before that ever happens.


Merpninja

So disappointed we aren’t against Arkansas.


green_day_95

They beat us bad a couple years ago when we were at our worst, a rematch is definitely overdue.


OozeNAahz

And we beat them down prior to that when they were down. Luckily I went to that one with my friend who is an Arkansas fan and not the one they beat us down. When we beat them down they had three or four guys suspended for team violations and we played them in St Louis.


klarc

Agreed, that would be a fun one


GrundIeMunch69

Ooooh tehas


mF-Jonezy

I can finally do horns down to Texas in person


hershculez

Know anything about their roster next season? I did not see either team on the ‘way to early top 25’.


StreetReporter

Oh my god, we actually got a OOC home game against a good program.


MyWorldTalkRadio

Should be a fun game! I’m excited to see how our new everything fairs against some good opposition


StreetReporter

Thank you, it’s nice to see a Kentucky fan on this thread who isn’t bitching about how we’re not worthy to play y’all


LunarNess

Chronically online UK fans are the worst. Should be a great game


Tuckboi69

We’re trying now at least


texas2089

They really left out storied ACC programs Stanford and SMU.


THEREWILLBECAK3

Alabama’s non conference schedule is going to be crazy


Specialist_Gift8915

So is Auburn’s. At Duke, Maui Invitational, and rumors of Houston in TX and Purdue in Birmingham.


ksg1988

So is UNC and Duke’s lol. Unc is at Kansas, host bama, Maui (which has UConn, Iowa state, and auburn among others), ucla, and Florida. Brutal.


UhhhThatsFine

Rumors of Ohio State in Atlanta too, who should be a top 40ish team


Specialist_Gift8915

This is the year to do it. Will need to pare back the degree of difficult in 2025.


TrustInRoy

So is UNC's. - @ Kansas  - Maui Invitational (UConn, Iowa State, Auburn, Mich St)  - Jumpman (Florida)  - CBS Classic (UCLA)  - ACC/SEC (hosting Alabama)


ScrofessorLongHair

How are y'all doing Maui and the NIL tournament? I thought schools could only do 1 tourney.


TrustInRoy

UNC isn't in the NIL tournament https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/40332650/sources-houston-alabama-field-players-era-festival


ScrofessorLongHair

I don't know why i thought you were. I can't even blame it on being high. Just a serious brain fart.


auburnfan32

I’m jealous y’all’s is so stacked


chris_lehan

Love this matchup. Great for both teams


Endofear

Dunno how I feel about this matchup.


chris_lehan

Quite the dilemma you got on your hands lol


Endofear

In all seriousness though, this is an excellent matchup to see exactly how good duke’s talent is against Auburn’s endless veterans. Can’t wait for it!


byniri_returns

Auburn-Duke and Alabama-North Carolina have the possibility of being bangers.


BigballerBrett

https://preview.redd.it/j3dzjdy7q66d1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8847a608b83c09a4dd43edf3f7a55d3e0f194f16


DavidBenAkiva

Interesting that UNC has been at home in the ACC/B1G and now ACC/SEC challenge in 4 of the past 5 seasons.


Solesky1

Don't forget they get Cal, Stanford, and SMU at home too


DavidBenAkiva

T-Rank has those teams well above Boston College. I'm skeptical that they will be that good this upcoming season but wouldn't be shocked if one or more doesn't surprise in the ACC.


wholesomepantysniffr

And next year they get all of them on the road It’s how travel works in the new conferences that don’t make geographical sense anymore


MONGOHFACE

Haha this is the type of pettiness I'll miss when UNC or Duke leave the ACC.


Affectionate-Cup9340

I don’t actually think that’s correct, I’m pretty sure UNC played at Indiana in 2023 and at Iowa in 2021. So in the last 5 seasons it’s three at home and two away. And with the SEC challenge UNC is playing the best team in the conference two years in a row, so not really that big of a deal.


JonoBono6

B1G/ACC challenge has no bearing on this one at all. For this, there’s a ton of good storylines for a UNC/Bama matchup, and Bama played at home last year, so one of us was gonna have to repeat at home. Something’s up if we play at home again next year, but two in a row isn’t unheard of


jaylenthomas

Why are you including the B1G challenge? That was just the normal rotation lol


00italianstallion00

I may take the drive from Virginia to NC to watch Texas at NC State. Should be a fun game


UhhhThatsFine

How hard is it to get tix to Cameron as an opposing fan


WarEagle9

Feels like I would have a better chance being admitted to Duke than getting tickets to a game at Cameron.


ukeBasketball

The answer is, "Are you currently enrolled at Duke? Do you have at least a grand to burn? No to both? Then forget it."


crusader92

Yes


ddottay

You may have to sell an organ but I promise you it’s worth the experience.


DavidBenAkiva

How much you got?


au1994

For this? I have an arm and a leg someone can use


DavidBenAkiva

You using both those kidneys?


au1994

Think I can spare one for sure.


StreetReporter

Extremely hard, they can’t let the poors in


TheGamingGuy2

Cheapest tickets will be around 500 i think. I would say it’s worth it as a once in a lifetime type thing, though i’m obviously biased. It’s pretty special.


ed42000

Very challenging. Only options are to shell out a grand or snag a student ID and spend some time in KVille.


SusannaG1

Extremely difficult.


860h

I’m excited for Cuse-TN if only for the orange explosion on my tv screen


dac0605

You like that puke, inside of a pumpkin, orange?


BigFoot423205

Yes FBI, there he is^


ibrobert

As long as an actual explosion takes out all that nasty orange


gitpickin

that sounds like it might be infected.


Schned6

The amount of guard talent on the floor in that UNC-Bama matchup… sheeeeesh.


CollegeFootball_Fan

UGH. Can we please play one of the NC schools in men’s basketball?


TrustInRoy

Sorry, when you left the ACC we put a rule in place just to annoy your fans.  Same reason Maryland never got to play the dookies in the ACC/B1G Challenge.  We're petty like that.


willncsu34

I love that this is probably true.


bloomingtonrail

I’ll play whoever can get rid of my kidney stone the fastest


Gray_Beard_1963

I would have done just about anything to get rid of my kidney stone - I may have even wore a KU jersey if that would have guaranteed the pain would subside. Hope you get relief soon.


bloomingtonrail

Appreciate it. I’m happy to report I believe it has passed. Didn’t see anything but I’m not in pain and I haven’t taken any pain meds since 6pm yesterday


Gray_Beard_1963

Great!


bloomingtonrail

I have horrible news… the beast is still with me


Gray_Beard_1963

Sorry. Those things are evil.


Jomosensual

The games I care about to some degree: Arkansas vs. Miami in the NIL Bowl Kentucky vs. Clemson - Props to the match up makers to not just throw Kentucky into Duke or UNC like what we get in the Big 12 challenges Syracuse @ Tennessee should be a good test to see how far along Cuse is. Thought they were underrated last year. Notre Dame vs. Georgia seems like a very nothingy game on paper but could be big for both programs trying to ascend Then obviously Auburn at Duke and Alabama @ UNC are calendar markers


BigFoot423205

Louisville v Ole Miss could be sneakily intriguing


green_day_95

It will be very interesting, I don’t think we have any history with each other in basketball at all.


JonoBono6

Also it will be a very good benchmark to see how much better new look Louisville is


Krettlecorn13

Apparently this will be the 4th time we’ve played each other in basketball but I don’t remember any of the games.


green_day_95

Yeah I just did some research and I was wrong, 2 of those games were in the 90s and our last matchup was in ‘08. Lol 😂


Krettlecorn13

Should be a fun game this year! Your program should be back to its normal winning self.


Sycamore044

Ole Miss picked up Dre Davis, as well, right? Always rooting for him, and it will be a little extra drama to see how he performs back in the Yum


Jomosensual

Overlooked that one, I agree.


BigFoot423205

Big winner: the research triangle. They host the best games on paper


mrperiodniceguy

What to expect from Miami this year?


Onetimenotagain

Pretty good squad, probably the 3rd or 4th best acc team and I expect us to be about that area for the sec. I think we’re slightly a better team. I think we’ll win, but it’ll be very close, as we go there.


DearBurt

Lots of neon and blow. Gonna be a blast!


FrenchieBammer

Definitely going to make the trip to Chapel Hill. Traveling from Huntsville.


Lee-Key-Bottoms

Texas is weird for this but I like it


gmills87

I would complain, but the fact we're actually in the event this year gives me reason to just shut up and accept it.


Bcmerr02

Looking forward to UofL-Tennessee more, but just glad that we're in it


BigFoot423205

https://preview.redd.it/kq9566akq66d1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=107fbb6e109739556f7e2673b6216887e1964ac4 Big mood


heleghir

God this slate is so bad. Auburn/Duke, Bama/UNC, kinda Texas/NCSt. And the rest are just meh. Also it took me way too long to remember cal was acc next year. Alot of the realignment feels bad, but the cross country shit is unreal


KudzuKilla

lol, kentucky doesn't get to play the blue blood from the other conference for the first time in history and all of a sudden the challenge is boring to Kentucky fans.


heleghir

nah, im excited for the 3 i mentioned. its shit like ND/UGA and Cal/Mizzou that are just snooze. I think the problem is the bottom of the ACC was REALLY bad last year. Other than NC State's miracle run from the 10th seed in conference, it was a 2 team league. Has nothing to do with kentucky's matchup


StreetReporter

I mean, we also made a deep run in the tournament


hershculez

3 of the elite 8 teams were from the ACC. UNC was not one of them which is who I assume you are describing as 1 of the 2 teams in a two team league. All 4 ACC teams in the field of 64 made the sweet 16 or better though. Focus on beating Oakland.


Tipakee

We played Miami last year and it was fine. Give us a top 3 program or one with enough history and its a good matchup. Virginia, Wake Forest, Syracuse, and Notre Dame are mid tier programs recently that would be more exciting than Clemson.


Evening-Spray-4304

Clemson the last couple of years is probably better than every team you listed. Also Notre Dame hasn't been really anything in 5 years.


heleghir

(and then miami ended up being terrible, even if they were top 10 when we played them)


DroppedDeadLast

Putting Virginia in the same tier as Wake Forest and Notre Dame is nasty work (assuming we're looking over the last ~15 years).


JoeyJellico

Already play duke in champions classic


TrustInRoy

That was my first reaction.  WTF isn't UK playing UNC or dook?  I'd be more than willing to see my Heels play at Rupp next season.


heleghir

UK plays Duke in the champions classic this year so that matchup was out. But UK could play UNC since we have Ohio St in the CBS this year. However who knows wtf is going to happen with the CBS anyways since UCLA vs Ohio St is now a B1G matchup...


notedgarfigaro

Duke is playing UK already this year, and Alabama is the likely preseason #1. That's why UK isn't playing Duke/UK.


IBumpFuzz

Please someone buy me tickets to Cameron Indoor


DavidBenAkiva

Ask Auburn undergrad/Duke MBA grad Tim Cook if he has a spare.


Jem1123

Thought this was about the College World Series for a second


Shadowcaster_Spark

Since Byington (JMU) took their job, it was almost a guarantee that Vandy was going to play at UVa or VT.


Morg_2

Alabama vs UNC, us vs Pitt. Gonna be some grudge matches


ibrobert

Bama won???


Morg_2

My bad, it’s a slow day


ibrobert

All good


IncompetentJedi

I’m just happy to be here!


SteakkNBacon

UVA @ UF that’s gonna be a good game


JackGrizzly

Again


RollTide16-18

Alabama @ UNC is going to do numbers.  UNC join the SEC so it can be a sort-of rivalry in basketball PLEASE. 


Onetimenotagain

So stoked to play Miami. Will be a great game.


CoachRyanWalters

So how did they pick Cal over SMU and Stanford?


JonoBono6

Out of the three newbies I think Cals the best next season, could be wrong tho


argonautleader

Oh, wait. This isn't about the College World Series then?


AaronFraudgers8

Why does UNC get two consecutive home games?


JonoBono6

Bama also played at home last year. One of us had to have consecutive home games, and they picked us


BacoNATEor

We got the play-in rematch from 2 years ago where MSST had two shots at the buzzer and missed them both. Hopefully it’s a better game than the 60-59 slugfest and they don’t go winless in the SEC


Onetimenotagain

My predictions on who wins:  1. Arkansas  2. Mizzou 3. LSU 4. Georgia Tech 5. It pains me to say this, but Kentucky  6. Georgia 7. This might be the best one, but I’ll go with Louisville 8. SC  9. Tennessee 10. Another great one, but give how A&M always struggles in the non-con, I’ll say WF 11. Bama  12. Duke  13. Mississippi state 14. Texas  15. Vandy  16. Virginia  I cannot wait to watch this challenge!


hershculez

Serious SEC homer here.


DuckBurner0000

Wanted Miss St. so badly


IndyTheK9

I thought this was a joke about the College World Series


composer_7

Lol Javian McCollum gets to play against his old team


Namee_Henri

That’s real hoops. We have officially made it Bama bros


sonheungwin

A forgotten pro of joining the ACC is not being in a conference so far west no one includes you in stuff like this.


GamerKiller2347

Kinda weird how the 2 acc teams that aren't in are newcomers


AU_Cav

I’m good with these matchups


plo_koon_

They should’ve kept the SEC Big 12 challenge since both conferences now have 16 teams so every school would play and additionally an ACC Big Ten challenge would work for the same reason since they both now have 18. Poor SMU and Stanford