Good morning.
Optional Musical Accompaniment
Well, Vanderbilt sports are still on holiday break for another day. Tonight, SEC basketball play starts for ten teams — the ten competing in the SEC/Big 12 Challenge next month, and this will actually be the final year of that thanks to ESPN’s television contracts. Since the Big Ten decided to tell ESPN to pound sand in its latest round of contract negotiations, the ACC/Big Ten Challenge is going away, and now the SEC will play the ACC.
No, I don’t know why these conference challenges are a thing.