The 2017 Big 12/SEC challenge schedule is set
By Jada Butts
For the second season, the Big 12 and Southeastern conference women’s basketball teams will go head-to-head in this 10-game, bragging rights challenge. The format of the challenge will include five home games on campus sites for each conference.
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This year, games will be scheduled over the dates of Thursday-Sunday, November 30-December 3. Half of these competitive conference challenge games will include at least one team that was ranked in the final 2016-17 USA Today coaches’ poll. All 10 games will be televised.
2017 Big 12/SEC Challenge Schedule
Thursday, November 30
Kentucky at Baylor, 7:00 p.m. (FCS)
K-State at Missouri, 8:00 p.m. (SEC Network)
LSU at Texas Tech, 6:30 p.m. (FSSW+)
Friday, December 1
Alabama at TCU, 12:00 p.m. (FSSW)
Saturday, December 2
Iowa State at Vanderbilt, 3:00 p.m. (SEC Network)
Sunday, December 3
Arkansas at Kansas, 2:00 p.m. (JTV/ESPN3)
Florida at Oklahoma, 2:00 p.m. (FS Oklahoma+)
Oklahoma State at Mississippi State, 1:00 p.m. (SEC Network)
Texas at Georgia, 3:00 p.m. (SEC Network)
West Virginia at Texas A&M, 7:00 p.m. (ESPNU)
History Lesson
The inaugural challenge was held in 2014 in Little Rock, Arkansas and featured a top 5 showdown with No. 3 Texas squaring off against No. 4 Texas A&M. Oklahoma and Arkansas, who were both receiving votes, played in the second game. The conferences split the Challenge with the two games decided by a total of nine points.
The 2015 version was held in Oklahoma City, but this year the opponents were reversed. No. 5 Texas played Arkansas while No. 17 Oklahoma competed against No. 18 Texas A&M. Each league again claimed a win.
In 2016, the SEC edged the Big 12, 6-4, in the first 10-game slate.
Be on the look out for the Big 12/SEC challenge coming to a television screen near you.