Back last Wednesday, one day before Big East Basketball Media Day, the Big East and the Big 12 officially announced a yearly men’s basketball challenge series between the two conferences.
The series will start in December of the 2019-20 regular season, and all ten teams from both leagues will participate for each of the four seasons that the challenge will run.
This is, quite possibly, the most obvious smart decision ever made in the history of college basketball.
With the Big 10 already moving to a 20 game league schedule and the ACC rapidly behind them next year, the opportunities for high profile non-conference games were going to start dipping for both the Big East and the Big 12.