Basketball schedule released for ESPN’s ACC/SEC Challenge

Does it ever seem as though schedule-makers get stuck in this rut of assigning opponents they think everyone wants to see Alabama play, in every sport? And with it all deriving from football success?

The most obvious offender is Oklahoma. If Alabama faces a B12 team, no matter the sport, there is a better than 50-50 shot that it will be the Tide and the Sooners: football, basketball, gymnastics, softball, Parcheesi, heated game of charades, thumb wrestling…

To that, we can now add the Clemson Tigers, who — for about the 15th time in the last decade— will face Alabama basketball in the inaugural ACC/SEC Challenge. The game will be at 8:30 central, God’s right and proper time zone, in Coleman…