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Spartans, Tar Heels to meet again in Big Ten/ACC Challenge

April 22, 2009

The MSU men’s basketball team will take the floor with North Carolina for the third time in a calendar year and for the second consecutive year in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge.

The two teams will meet in Chapel Hill, N.C. on Dec. 1 in the 11th rendition of the weeklong event that pits teams from each conference against one another.

The Spartans and Tar Heels played at Ford Field on Dec. 3 in the Challenge and lost 98-63. The two teams met again in a rematch in Detroit in the national championship game April 6 and the Tar Heels won again 89-72.

It’s the fourth time the two programs have played in the event and North Carolina leads the all-time series 9-3. The Spartans defeated North Carolina in the inaugural Challenge in Chapel Hill in 1999, 77-64.

The Spartans are a Big Ten-best 5-4 in the 11 years of the Challenge, which the Big Ten has never won.

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