Matchups for the ninth annual Big Ten/ACC Challenge have been determined with the event featuring top college basketball programs playing for conference supremacy and the Commissioner's Cup on ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNU. Ohio State will take on North Carolina in Columbus Nov. 28 on ESPN this year.
Ohio State will be participating in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge for the sixth-consecutive year. Ohio State first participated in the event during the 2002-03 season against Duke in Greensboro, N.C., a 91-75 Blue Devils' victory. Georgia Tech traveled to Ohio State in 2004 and won 73-53. The Buckeyes traveled to Clemson in 2004-05 and fell to the Tigers, 80-73. Ohio State defeated Virginia Tech in Columbus in the 2005 event, 69-59, for its first victory in the Challenge. The Buckeyes met North Carolina in the 2006 event. The Tar Heels, ranked No. 7 at the time in the Associated Press Poll, defeated the No. 3-ranked Buckeyes in Chapel Hill, 98-89.
North Carolina Travels to Columbus in 2007 Big Ten/ACC Challenge