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SEC to meet Big East in TV matchup


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The Southeastern Conference will play the Big East in a made-for-television basketball challenge series beginning in the 2007-08 season.

The three-year challenge will consist of two double-headers each season, beginning in 2007-08. Each of the 12 SEC schools àfour each year àwill play one challenge game.

No matchups or sites have been decided, SEC spokesman DeWayne Peevy said. No decision has been made on when each SEC team will participate, he said.

Peevy noted that the Big East must also decide which 12 of its 16 teams will participate.

Midweek dates for the challenge are Dec. 5-6, 2007, Dec. 10-11, 2008, and Dec. 9-10, 2009.

Of the two neutral sites for the double-headers each year, one will be in the SEC area and one in the Big East area.

All games will be televised on ESPN or ESPN2.

http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/14818320.htm

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Is there one team in the SEC we could beat? OleMiss maybe?

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they want the games to be played one in a big east area and one in a sec area, the best logic for that is usf vs uf, bout an hour and half drive between the schools, makes the most sense to me.  you would be sure to get alot of gaytor fans to drive down as well as a bunch of usf fans to drive up for the game

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they want the games to be played one in a big east area and one in a sec area, the best logic for that is usf vs uf, bout an hour and half drive between the schools, makes the most sense to me.  you would be sure to get alot of gaytor fans to drive down as well as a bunch of usf fans to drive up for the game

ummm NO.... USF won't and shouldn't be included.

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ummm NO.... USF won't and shouldn't be included.

yeah we'd damage the big east image

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ummm NO.... USF won't and shouldn't be included.

I was just going to post that, No point in talking about it we got no shot of playing in this tournament, we will not be one of the best 12 teams in the BE in Basketball for a long time.

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Peevy noted that the Big East must also decide which 12 of its 16 teams will participate

could actually be phrased:

"Peevy noted that the Big East must also decide which 4  of its 16 teams will not participate"

This year that would probably be Providence, DePaul, St. Johns and the alma mater from Fowler Avenue.

Of course, depending on how USF turns around in '06-'07 could change things but, I'm just assuming the turn-around is more gradual than radical. 

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Gradual?

HOw about we haven't made the tournament in 15 years.  You call that gradual.

Get ready for another sub-average year of maybe 3-13 in the conference.

WOO HOOO..

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Exactly.

If 3-13 is it, this BE/SEC venture means nothing to USF.

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