The Ohio State Buckeyes and Louisville Cardinals are playing on the ACC Big Ten Challenge schedule on Tuesday night and the college basketball matchup is from the KFC Yum! Center and will be on ESPN and the WatchESPN website streaming at 9:30 pm ET as the top 25 teams come in each at 5-0 so far in 2014.
Ohio State comes in after a win against James Madison and they have won all five of their games this season and they will play against the Colgate Raiders next on the schedule on Saturday. D'Angelo Russell comes in leading the team in scoring and he is second in assists per game and now the two undefeated teams match up. This is the first test for the team since playing Marquette and coming up they have a tough matchup with North Carolina.
Laster in the season the Big Ten schedule picks up and it should be good this year, as Michigan State, Michigan, Wisconsin and Maryland are all ranked. The team is averaging 87 points per game coming in and they are ranked ninth in the nation to start the season off. The team is sixth in assists per game and second in field goal percentage and they are hoping to keep that up through the season. The team has a tough stretch near the end, as they play Michigan and MSU in back to back games.
Maryland, Wisconsin and Illinois are also undefeated to start the season and that should make this a very good conference this year. Montrezl Howell is the leading scorer for the Cardinals and he comes in after putting in 15 points and 13 rebounds against Cleveland State and now they have started the season undefeated through five games.
Louisville has had to deal with losing Russ Smith and Luke Hancock and now they have another solid group coming in for Rick Pitino. The Cardinals come in ranked first in rebounds per game and they are averaging over 77 points per game. The team has Virginia, Miami, North Carolina and Duke as ranked teams in the ACC and they are right in the mix with those schools to win the conference this season.
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