Big 12/SEC Challenge 2017: Schedule, scores, results, and more

For the fourth straight year, the SEC’s best meets the Big 12 in a day-long celebration of basketball. The Big 12/SEC Challenge will be held on Saturday with 10 games on ESPN’s family of networks.

The Big 12 is 3-0 all-time in the event. Because the SEC is a 14-team conference, Alabama, Missouri, Mississippi State, and South Carolina will not play in the challenge. All 10 teams in the Big 12 will be in action.

The event ended in a tie, with both conferences winning five games.

Kansas traveled to Kentucky in the headline matchup of the day and came away with a 79-73 victory. Freshman Josh Jackson did it all for the Jayhawks in the victory, finishing with 20 points and 10 rebounds. Frank Mason III added 21 points for Kansas, as well. This is Kentucky’s second straight loss after they fell to Tennessee earlier in the week.

Auburn at TCU might not seem like a marquee game, but it should be a fun matchup of two upstarts trying to end long NCAA tournament droughts. Auburn came away with a big 88-80 victory behind a massive game from freshman Austin Wiley. Wiley, who joined the Tigers mid-season after graduating high school in December, put up 25 points and seven rebounds in the win.

The event opened at noon with a struggling-but-talented Texas A&M team taking on surging West Virginia. The No. 18 Mountaineers kept rolling after beating Kansas on their way to a 81-77 victory.

No. 5 Baylor, No. 23 South Carolina, and No. 25 Florida are the other ranked teams in action.

Here’s the schedule for the 2017 Big 12/SEC Challenge:

West Virginia 81, Texas A&M 77

Florida 84, Oklahoma 52

Texas Tech 77, LSU 64

Tennessee 70, Kansas State 58

Oklahoma State 99, Arkansas 71

Georgia 59, Texas 57

Vanderbilt 84, Iowa State 78

Auburn 88, TCU 80

Baylor 78, Ole Miss 75

Kansas 79, Kentucky 73

SEC 5, Big 12 5