USATSI Seven ranked college basketball teams and three inside the top-10 will be in action Tuesday night as the sport takes center stage. It’s part of a consequential night of competition that features pivotal Big Ten, SEC and Big East matchups, with conference leaders from two of the three trying to hold serve against unranked opponents. In the Big East, No. 3 Villanova will end its nearly one-month COVID pause to welcome surging Seton Hall, which sits in second in the league standings at 6-2. In the SEC, No. 6 Tennessee takes on Florida in Gainesville, Florida; league-leading and 18th-ranked Alabama gets LSU in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and South Carolina takes on No. 19 Missouri in Columbia, Missouri. And in the Big Ten, half of the league’s ranked teams — No. 7 Michigan, No. 15 Ohio State and No. 22 Illinois — will all face stiff tests at home. Behold, our…
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