Report: Ohio State to play North Carolina in CBS Sports Classic

It is solely late Could but it surely’s by no means too early to debate the 2022-23 faculty basketball season. Whereas a lot of Ohio State’s slate for the upcoming yr remains to be unknown, the Buckeyes reportedly discovered one of many marquee opponents for subsequent season.

According to Stadium college basketball insider Jeff Goodman, the Scarlet and Grey will face North Carolina as part of the CBS Sports activities Basic in 2022 whereas Kentucky will place UCLA. The annual faculty basketball occasion will, in line with Goodman, happen on Saturday, Dec. 17 at Madison Sq. Gaden in New York Metropolis.

The CBS Sports activities Basic is an annual faculty basketball occasion that sees every of the 4 groups concerned face one another on a rotating foundation on a impartial web site every season. The 4 rotating groups, Ohio State, North Carolina, UCLA and Kentucky, have remained the identical for all eight years of the occasion.

Ohio State holds a 4-3 all-time report within the CBS Sports activities Sports activities Basic for the reason that occasion’s beginnings in 2014. The Buckeyes and the Tar Heels have performed simply twice within the CBS Sports activities Basic, with UNC successful each instances. The 2 groups met within the first occasion in Chicago in 2014 with North Carolina successful 82-74 on the United Heart. The Scarlet and Grey and the Tar Heels then confronted one another once more in 2017 on the Smoothie King Heart in New Orleans, with UNC incomes an 86-72 win.

These two groups have met 13 instances of their applications’ histories. Six-time nationwide champion North Carolina owns an 11-2 all-time report in opposition to Ohio State. The final time the 2 groups performed, nevertheless, the Buckeyes had been the victors. On Dec. 4, 2019, the Scarlet and Grey went to the Dean Smith Heart in Chapel Hill and got here away with a 74-49 win.

All-time within the CBS Sports activities Basic, Ohio State has two wins every in opposition to Kentucky and UCLA. Final yr, the Buckeyes had been scheduled to play the Wildcats at T-Cellular Area in Las Vegas. That sport, nevertheless, was canceled as a result of COVID-19 pandemic and Kentucky and North Carolina performed as a rescheduled sport received by the Wildcats.

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Along with the CBS Sports activities Basic, Ohio State is scheduled to play within the Maui Invitational over Thanksgiving weekend. The Buckeyes shall be joined by Arkansas, Arizona, Cincinnati, Creighton, Louisville, San Diego State and Texas Tech within the occasion. The Scarlet and Grey will even participate within the ACC-Massive Ten Problem in 2022.