The 20th edition of the Big Ten/ACC Challenge tips off Monday with a pair of inter-conference basketball battles: Nebraska at Clemson and Minnesota at Boston College.
The unranked Illini men's basketball team heads up Interstate 57 to take on Notre Dame at the Joyce Center on Tuesday night. The Fighting Irish have been predicted to finish eighth in the ACC this season.
Illinois has had mixed results in this made-for-television series, winning just eight times in the previous 19 challenges. Its most common opponents have been North Carolina, a school that the Illini have mastered three times in four meetings, and Maryland, a team that Illinois has beaten just once in four matches.