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Big 12-SEC Challenge 2018: Schedule, scores, and more

The SEC won the event outright for the first time ever

NCAA Basketball: Kentucky at West Virginia
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Ricky O'Donnell
Ricky O'Donnell has covered basketball at all levels for more than a decade at SB Nation. He’s currently the Associate Director of Programming.

The Big 12/SEC Challenge is going down on Saturday in gyms across the country from noon until night time. There are 10 games between the two conferences and all will be shown on the ESPN family of networks or the SEC Network.

All 10 Big 12 schools are included in the challenge, while four SEC schools are not. Those schools will play each other on Saturday, with LSU facing No. 19 Auburn and Missouri at Mississippi State.

The Challenge started during the 2013-14 season. The Big 12 won the first three years and holds a 25-15 lead all time. The SEC has never won outright, but the conferences did split the 10 games last year.

The Big 12 continues to be the toughest conference in America, according to KenPom. The SEC ranks fourth by the same metrics, but is experiencing something of a renaissance this season, even during a down year for unranked Kentucky. The league could get as many as seven or eight teams in the NCAA tournament.

Here are the results for the day (all times Eastern):

No. 14 Texas Tech 70, South Carolina 63
No. 20 Florida 81, Baylor 60
Texas 85, Ole Miss 72
Kansas State 56, Georgia 51
Alabama 80, No. 12 Oklahoma 73
No. 22 Tennessee 68, Iowa State, 45
Vanderbilt 81, TCU 78
No. 5 Kansas 79, Texas A&M 68
Arkansas 66, Oklahoma State 65
Kentucky 83, No. 7 West Virginia 76

Big 12-SEC Challenge scoreboard

Big 12: 4

SEC: 6

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