Alligators draw the Horned Frogs @ the next B12 vs SEC hoops challenge.
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If this were football I would be interested. TCU in basketball......meh.
Kansas vs Kentucky is a headline game, Florida should be playing Texas Tech or Oklahoma. Florida vs TCU basketball is hardly attention grabbing in May.
Kansas vs Kentucky is a headline game, Florida should be playing Texas Tech or Oklahoma. Florida vs TCU basketball is hardly attention grabbing in May.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Florida men's basketball will visit TCU on Saturday, Jan. 26, 2019, as part of the SEC/Big 12 Challenge. The event enters its sixth year, with the SEC coming off a 6-4 win in last season's challenge.
The Gators have a 4-1 record in the SEC/Big 12 Challenge, including a 3-0 mark under head coach Mike White. Florida has been impressive in the 3 wins under White, scoring the victories by an average margin of 23.3 points.
Florida holds a 2-0 all-time record vs. TCU, winning on the road in 1974 and at home in 1986.
2019 SEC/Big 12 Challenge
Alabama at Baylor
Arkansas at Texas Tech
Florida at TCU
Texas at Georgia
Kansas at Kentucky
Iowa State at Ole Miss
South Carolina at Oklahoma State
West Virginia at Tennessee
Kansas State at Texas A&M
Vanderbilt at Oklahoma
Florida in the SEC/Big 12 Challenge
Dec. 10, 2013 Kansas W 67-61 -- +6
Dec. 5, 2014 at Kansas L 65-71 -- -6
Jan. 30, 2016 West Virginia W 88-71 + 17
Jan. 28, 2017 at Oklahoma W 84-52 + 32 <<=====<<<
Jan. 27, 2018 Baylor W 81-60 + 21
https://floridagators.com/news/2018...ors-to-visit-tcu-in-sec-big-12-challenge.aspx
PS
Because the Big12/10 can only get 10 teams in their has-been conference, only 10 SEC teams can play in it. UF has been chosen every time to be one of the SEC's 10 Teams.
The Gators have a 4-1 record in the SEC/Big 12 Challenge, including a 3-0 mark under head coach Mike White. Florida has been impressive in the 3 wins under White, scoring the victories by an average margin of 23.3 points.
Florida holds a 2-0 all-time record vs. TCU, winning on the road in 1974 and at home in 1986.
2019 SEC/Big 12 Challenge
Alabama at Baylor
Arkansas at Texas Tech
Florida at TCU
Texas at Georgia
Kansas at Kentucky
Iowa State at Ole Miss
South Carolina at Oklahoma State
West Virginia at Tennessee
Kansas State at Texas A&M
Vanderbilt at Oklahoma
Florida in the SEC/Big 12 Challenge
Dec. 10, 2013 Kansas W 67-61 -- +6
Dec. 5, 2014 at Kansas L 65-71 -- -6
Jan. 30, 2016 West Virginia W 88-71 + 17
Jan. 28, 2017 at Oklahoma W 84-52 + 32 <<=====<<<
Jan. 27, 2018 Baylor W 81-60 + 21
https://floridagators.com/news/2018...ors-to-visit-tcu-in-sec-big-12-challenge.aspx
PS
Because the Big12/10 can only get 10 teams in their has-been conference, only 10 SEC teams can play in it. UF has been chosen every time to be one of the SEC's 10 Teams.
In prior years I thought they were doing the pairings based on conference order of finish from the season prior but I guess not anymore, considering we finished 3rd and TCU finished 5th. Auburn won the conference last season but wasn't in the SEC/B12 challenge because they weren't one of the top 10 SEC teams in the season before last.....and we still won the challenge.
I would excuse the lackluster matchup if there were a concrete formula like conference finishing order, or geographic intrigue, or even new opponents every year. The Kansas and Kentucky is a money play, I am cool with that.
Florida is second in the SEC pecking order, we should get the second best game.
We are 4-1 in this challenge having played Kansas twice, and Oklahoma, WVU, and Baylor so you can't say we haven't gotten the top matchups from the B12. TCU is different now because they have a top notch coach in Jaime Dixon who has turned them around and they will probably be highly ranked at the time we play them so this isn't your daddy's TCU bball team.
Heck, I'll even pull for tennis-sea, IF they are playing FSUcks, Choke-la-homa, or the neutered lame.... 
I haven't really tracked our yearly record in the event, nor did I look at our opponents.
I still would have liked to seen us go against Texas Tech since they knocked us out in March, or Oklahoma just because.
If the big 12 could ever field enough teams to get everyone involved, it would lend more credibility to the event imo.
I have never been a team SEC fan, last year I can say was the first time I was really happy to see a UK victory, over WVU. The media was drooling all over how good the big 12 was, they were speaking of them as an all-time great conference.
Outside of Kansas, how many Big 12 teams have made it deep on a yearly basis? The SEC is considered a Kentucky and everybody else league. Kansas has won the big 12 like sixteen straight years.
And Bill Self is the Mark Richt of basketball.
All of that success, and he has one title, coming against a mid-major, 10 years ago.
I don't discount that title, Memphis had a ot of talent. One being a future NBA MVP, but since that title you could say he hasn't done enough with all that talent.
