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SEC/Big 12 Challenge Television Schedule Set

ESPN announced the television network designations and start times for the fourth annual Big 12/SEC Challenge Presented by Sonic on Monday and the Texas A&M men's basketball team is slated to lead off the day's events at 11 a.m. (CT) against West Virginia in Morgantown, W. Va.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – ESPN announced the television network designations and start times for the fourth annual Big 12/SEC Challenge Presented by Sonic on Monday and the Texas A&M men's basketball team is slated to lead off the day's events at 11 a.m. (CT) against West Virginia in Morgantown, W. Va.
 
Seven of the 10 games will be televised on ESPN or ESPN2 and three games will air on ESPNU. All 10 games will also be available via WatchESPN.
 
ESPN's College GameDay Covered by State Farm – the Saturday roadshow that discusses the top storylines of the college basketball season – will originate from one of the Challenge games.
 
All 10 of the Big 12's teams and 10 of the SEC's 14 member institutions will participate in this year's event. Each of the 10 SEC teams that participated in the 2016 Challenge are playing in the 2017 event.
 
Twelve participating teams earned postseason berths in 2016 and seven of the 10 games will feature at least one team that participated in the 2016 NCAA Tournament.
 
This will be the second year that a bye in the league schedule for participating teams was created to accommodate the single-day format. The four SEC teams not participating will play each other in conference games the same day. The first two years of the challenge were played over several days in November and December but the 2017 event will be consolidated to one single day in January.
 
 
2017 SEC/BIG 12 CHALLENGE PRESENTED BY SONIC
Jan. 28, 2017 (All Times Central):
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Texas A&M at West Virginia (ESPN / 11 a.m.)
Florida at Oklahoma (ESPN / 1 p.m.)
Kansas State at Tennessee (ESPN2 / 1 p.m.)
LSU at Texas Tech (ESPNU / 1 p.m.)
Texas at Georgia (ESPN / 3 p.m.)
Iowa State at Vanderbilt (ESPN2 / 3 p.m.)
Arkansas at Oklahoma State (ESPNU, 3 p.m.)
Kansas at Kentucky (ESPN / 5 p.m.)
Baylor at Ole Miss (ESPN2 / 5 p.m.)
Auburn at TCU (ESPNU / 5 p.m.)