B1G ready to announce scheduling deal with Big East basketball

http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/05/04/reports-big-east-big-ten-to-announce-scheduling-agreement-monday/related/

"The event will begin during the 2015-16 season, and there has been no word as to whether or not this agreement will impact the Big Ten/ACC Challenge. That event has been played every year since 1999.

According to the Big Ten Network the games in the Gavitt Tipoff Games will be played on the Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of the first full week of the college basketball season. Television network assignments will be controlled by the home team; games hosted by Big East teams will air on Fox Sports 1, with Big Ten hosted games airing on either BTN or ESPN.

The question now is what the first match-ups will be. With Rutgers and Seton Hall having already agreed to an eight-year series following the splitting of the Big East, that’s one game we’re unlikely to see scheduled. But what about the possibility of getting Georgetown and Maryland on the same floor? Would the schools allow that to happen, given the fact that they’ve played so infrequently over the years?"

I like this, especially since it looks like the games will be at actual school venues.

I hope this doesn't replace the ACC/B1G challenge. That would be disappointing and a step down in competition.

ESPN Challenge article

The B1G/ACC challenge will continue. Each BEast team will play 6 time, the B1G teams will play 4 times. 4 home and 4 away. Games in BEast will be on Fox1sports and B1G will be BTN or ESPN.

Couple years late on this one, Jim

Tim Wakefield wrote:Couple years late on this one, Jim

The B1G is playing Syracuse, Pitt, Louisville and Notre Dame next year.

WBill wrote:

The B1G is  playing Syracuse, Pitt, Louisville and Notre Dame next year.

/s?