Men’s Basketball To Take On Georgia Tech In Fifth Annual Big Ten/ACC Challenge – Ohio State Buckeyes
6/18/2003 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
June 18, 2003
Columbus, Ohio-The Big Ten Conference, in conjunction with the ACC and ESPN, today announced the pairings for the fifth annual Big Ten/ACC Challenge. Ohio State will play host to Georgia Tech at 7 p.m. Wednesday Dec. 3 at Value City Arena. The game will be televised nationally on ESPN.
The Buckeyes last faced the Yellow Jackets in the first round of the 2003 postseason NIT, a 72-58 Georgia Tech victory in Atlanta, Ga. The Buckeyes are 10-2 all-time against the Yellow Jackets and have won eight of the last nine meetings. The last Buckeye victory came in the second round of the 1991 NCAA Tournament, 65-61. The Buckeyes are 5-0 all-time against Georgia Tech in Columbus.
The Buckeyes are 1-1 in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge. In 2001 the Buckeyes defeated North Carolina State, 64-50, in Columbus and lost to Duke, 91-76, last season in Greensboro, N.C.
ESPN and ESPN2 will combine to televise the nine-game Challenge Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, Dec. 1-3, from eight different college campuses and one neutral site. It will mark the second-consecutive year that every game will be televised nationally in a three-day schedule.
2003 Big Ten/ACC Challenge Schedule
Monday, Dec. 1
All times eastern
7 p.m. ESPN2 Northwestern at Florida State
Tuesday, Dec. 2
7 p.m. ESPN Indiana at Wake Forest
7:30 p.m. ESPN2 N.C. State at Michigan
9 p.m. ESPN Illinois vs. North Carolina (Greensboro Coliseum, Greensboro, N.C.)
9:30 p.m. ESPN2 Wisconsin at Maryland
Wednesday, Dec. 3
7 p.m. ESPN Georgia Tech at Ohio State
7:30 p.m. ESPN2 Clemson at Purdue
9 p.m. ESPN Duke at Michigan State
9:30 p.m. ESPN2 Minnesota at Virginia
