The Big 12 Conference claimed the SEC/Big 12 Challenge six games to four on Saturday, regaining bragging rights over a league that won the one-day event by an identical 6-4 tally in 2017-18.
In much-anticipated basketball games involving ranked teams, No. 8 Kentucky stopped No. 9 Kansas 71-63 at Rupp Arena in Lexington; No. 1 Tennessee defeated unranked West Virginia 83-66 in Knoxville, Tenn.; No. 24 Iowa State defeated No. 20 Mississippi 87-73 in Oxford, Miss., and No. 14 Texas Tech clipped unranked Arkansas 67-64 in Lubbock, Texas.
In other games televised on the ESPN networks … Baylor stopped Alabama and it was TCU over Florida, Oklahoma State over South Carolina, Oklahoma over Vanderbilt, Georgia over Texas and Texas A&M over Kansas State.