Well, i can say I told you so in reference to Michigan State being highly overrated(http://bracketman.wordpress.com/2008/12/03/duke-rolls-hazell-scores-32/). The Spartans never established any flow and North Carolina never looked back on their way to a 35 point destruction. The top two teams in the Big Ten were throughly dismantled by the two top teams from the ACC, which should cause some concern for the Big Ten faithful (newsflash: your overmatched in football and your overmatched in basketball).
In other games in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge:
Wake dismantled Indiana 83-58. Anyone saw this coming, as Tom Crean will taking a beating this year.
Penn State pulled one out in Atlanta 85-83. Could this be the win that Ed DeChellis was looking for?
Maryland rallied past Michigan 75-70, completing their sweep of the Great Lakes state.
Northwestern knocked off Florida State 73-59, in the most surprising result of the night. FSU has been on a roll knocking of Cincinnati and California. This is a big win for Northwestern(5-1).
In other action:
Vanderbilt got smoked by Illinois-Chicago.
Xavier stayed perfect with a win over dissapointing Auburn.
South Florida stayed true to their form and blew a late lead at UAB, and then fell in overtime.
West Virginia rallied for a nice road win at Ole Miss.
Winthrops rain in the Big South is over. They fell to 1-6 and got smoked at the hands of Big South foe VMI.
Looking ahead to tonight there are two interesting games taking place in the Top 25:
USC (5-2) at (6) Oklahoma (6-0)
USC will be looking to prove their two losses in Puerto Rico to Seton Hall and Missouri were flukes and MUST contain Blake Griffin(25.7 ppg, 19.2 rpg) who has been unreal. Taj Gibson has to get a body on Griffin and the Trojans must force his supporting cast to beat them. PREDICTION: OU by 13
(9) UCLA (4-1) at (8) Texas (5-1)
The other LA team also visits a top Big XII club, when the Bruins travel to Austin. UCLA is paced by Darren Collison but doesnt have many other options on offense. I don’t expect UCLA to be able to keep up with the athletic Longhorns. The little guy A.J. Abrams must be contained, but he could go off on the Bruins. PREDICTION: Texas by 8
