If you were like me and looking forward to another Ohio State basketball matchup with North Carolina, you’ll have to adjust your anticipation just a bit. That’s because the folks running the CBS Sports Classic has announced a change in matchups. Rather than OSU facing the Tar Heels, it will now match up with UCLA. Carolina will now face Kentucky.
The time of the Buckeyes’ hoops game against the Bruins will remain at the same tip the game against UNC was set for, 4:15 p.m. That will still give Ohio State fans the ability to watch the Big Ten Championship Game on the gridiron between Northwestern, then change channels and watch the scarlet and gray work magic on the court.
Though there wasn’t a lot of detail provided on the rationale for the change, the event organizers announced that “the revised schedule was created to more closely align COVID-19 testing protocols between the competing programs and their respective conferences.”
New CBS Sports Classic matchups will feature North Carolina vs. Kentucky and UCLA vs. Ohio State on Saturday. https://t.co/UPJDLSutKn
— CBS Sports CBB (@CBSSportsCBB) December 16, 2020
We’ll just leave that there and look for a fantastic matchup against a little different shade of blue, albeit very similar on Saturday.
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