Hoosiers to Host North Carolina in ACC/Big Ten Challenge

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – The Indiana University men's basketball team, currently ranked 14th in ESPN's Way Too Early Top 25, will host 2022 national runner up North Carolina in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge. The Tar Heels are rated No. 1 in the same poll. The event is scheduled for Wednesday, Nov. 30. ESPN presents the event. Dates, times and network designations will be announced at a later date.

"I'm really excited for our program and fans to have a matchup like this next season at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall," said second year IU Coach Mike Woodson. "It doesn't get any better than two iconic programs playing on the biggest stage."

IU returns four starters from last year's 21-14 NCAA Tournament squad including All-Big Ten seniors Trayce Jackson-Davis, Race Thompson and Xavier Johnson. UNC also returns four starters from a team which finished 29-10 and advanced to the national title game where it fell to Kansas. Incidentally, the Hoosiers will face the Jayhawks Dec. 17 in Lawrence.

This will be the fifth meeting in the Challenge between the two teams and the 16th overall. IU is 3-1 in the Challenge against UNC with wins in Bloomington in 2012 and 2016 and in Chapel Hill in 2001. UNC won in Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in 2004. The teams also have met three times in the NCAA Tournament. The Hoosiers won the NCAA Championship game in Philadelphia in 1981, knocked off the No. 1 Tar Heels in the 1984 Sweet Sixteen in Atlanta and saw UNC do the same to IU in the 2016 Sweet Sixteen in Philadelphia.

IU VS. NORTH CAROLINA (IU leads series 9-6)

12/11/61	W	76-70	Greensboro, N.C.
12/15/62	W	90-76	Bloomington, Ind.
12/7/63	L	70-77	Charlotte, N.C.
12/12/64	W	107-81	Bloomington, Ind.
12/22/79	L	57-61	Bloomington, Ind.
12/20/80	L	56-65	Chapel Hill, N.C.
3/30/81	W	63-50	Philadelphia, Pa. (NCAA Championship)
3/22/84	W	72-68	Atlanta, Ga. (NCAA Sweet Sixteen)
11/25/88	L	92-106	New York, N.Y.
12/21/99	W	82-73	East Rutherford, N.J.
11/28/01	W	79-66	Chapel Hill, N.C. (Big Ten/ACC Challenge)
12/1/04	L	63-70	Bloomington, Ind. (Big Ten/ACC Challenge)
11/27/12	W	83-59	Bloomington, Ind. (Big Ten/ACC Challenge)
3/25/16	L	86-101	Philadelphia, Pa. (NCAA Sweet Sixteen)
11/30/16	W	76-67	Bloomington, Ind. (Big Ten/ACC Challenge)

Notables: IU is 8-13 in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge… they have played the last two years on the road and lost by a combined four points in overtime at Florida State in 2020 and at Syracuse in double overtime in 2021… All-American Trayce Jackson-Davis averaged 28.0 points and 16.5 rebounds in those two games… IU has faced a nationally ranked opponent in eight of its last 10 Challenge games… IU last took on the No. 1 team in the country in this event in 2017 when it hosted Duke… IU was the No. 1 team in the nation when it beat UNC at home in 2012… UNC was ranked No. 3 when the Hoosiers won their last meeting in 2016… Bloomington native Sean May is an assistant coach for the Tar Heels and is the son of former IU National Player of the Year (1976) Scott May, one of Mike Woodson's closest friends… Woodson and UNC Coach Hubert Davis are two of seven former NBA players who are coaching at their alma mater in Division I… Woodson was an assistant to his mentor, former Tar Heel Larry Brown on the 2004 World Champion Detroit Pistons… IU senior Miller Kopp was the roommate of Tar Heel transfer Pete Nance when they played together at Northwestern.

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