Tech visits Indiana for ACC/Big Ten Challenge
By Jamie Howell/ Student Publications
Tech will visit Indiana next season for the ACC/Big Ten Challenge. The Hoosiers join UCONN and Vanderbilt as early season road trips for Tech.
Tech head coach Paul Hewitt's men's basketball team will visit Kelvin Sampson's Indiana for the Big10/ACC Challenge no Nov. 27.
The Jackets are 4-4 in the previous eight Big Ten/ACC Challenges. Tech's only road win in the Challenge was a 73-53 win at Ohio State in 2003. The team has lost on the road at 88-86 in 2005 at Michigan State, 64-63 at Minnesota in 2002 and 85-67 at Iowa in 2000.
Tech's only meeting with Indiana ended in an 87-65 loss at the Pauley Pavilion in Los Angelos at the Bruin Classic on Dec. 29, 1969.
The ACC has won all eight of the previous challenges and hold a 48-27 record in the games.
In other match ups that will highlight the three day event, Wisconsin will visit Cameron Indoor to take on Duke, Illinois will visit Maryland and North Carolina will play at Ohio State.
