Ohio State’s non-conference basketball schedule lacks the attention-grabbing opponents that leaped off the page upon first glace last season, but there’s considerable potential drama in the approach to the Big Ten season that lingers under the radar. OSU will play North Carolina for a second straight season, this time in the CBS Sports Classic, but the rest of the Buckeyes’ non-conference schedule isn’t as eye-catching initially as last season, when it also included Kentucky, Villanova and Cincinnati. Don’t get the wrong idea…there’s still the chance it will feature a handful of ultra-challenging, highly-intriguing match-ups. That’s because OSU will play host to an as-yet-unnamed opponent from the Atlantic Coast Conference in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge on either Dec. 1 or 2. It won’t be Carolina, since the Buckeyes already have them on Dec. 19 at a neutral site. It’s also unlikely to be Duke, since OSU could get the Blue Devils…
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