It is a marquee event every year, and we have our matchups for the 2019 ACC/Big Ten Challenge. The Duke/Michigan State rematch will be the big one of the event, but as with every year one game won't define this event.
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2019 ACC/Big Ten Challenge Schedule
Monday, December 2
- Clemson at Minnesota
- Miami at Illinois
Tuesday, December 3
- Northwestern at Boston College
- Duke at Michigan State
- Florida State at Indiana
- Michigan at Louisville
- Rutgers at Pitt
- Iowa at Syracuse
Wednesday, December 4
- Nebraska at Georgia Tech
- Ohio State at North Carolina
- Wisconsin at NC State
- Notre Dame at Maryland
- Virginia at Purdue
- Wake Forest at Penn State
Sports Illustrated takes a deeper dive on the matchups.
Three of the 14 contests are rematches from last season (though not necessarily from the Challenge), not to mention a reprise of the 2013 national title game between Michigan and Louisville. Wolverine fans will be looking for revenge against a Cardinal team that was later stripped of that title, but the real teams that will be out for vengeance are the Blue Devils and Purdue. Duke gets to make its first trip to East Lansing since 2003, when JJ Redick and Shelden Williams were running the show for it. Coach K has only lost twice to Tom Izzo, but the most recent defeat came in March, when the Spartans held on for a 68–67 win to get to the Final Four and stun the top overall seed.
