For a little over a decade now, the inter-conference challenges have been a mainstay in college basketball. The big ones right now are the SEC/Big 12 Challenge and the ACC-Big 10 Challenge.
They put the top teams from each competing conference against a comparable team and which ever conference has the most victories wins the challenge for that year.
In three years the SEC has a 10-20 record against the Big 12 and are 0-3 in the SEC/Big 12 Challenge. The ACC has a 11-5-2 lead over the Big 10 and they are the most recent victors with a 9-5 record over the Big 10 in November.