The SEC/ACC Challenge ended up 14-2 in the SEC’s favor this year. The men’s NCAA Tournament bid disparity could end up almost that bad — a record-smashing 14 SEC teams in the field of 68 because Arkansas keeps rising, and a match of the ACC’s lowest all-time output of three because North Carolina, Wake Forest and Pitt can’t do enough late.

It is the biggest basketball game in the history of western civilization. Or at least until the two schools meet in the season finale on March 8. For Saturday afternoon inside Coleman Coliseum, a matchup between the No.