Mark Titus and Shane Ryan (GrantLand.com) -

In advance of the ACC-Big Ten Challenge, which begins tonight, Shane Ryan and Mark Titus exchanged e-mails discussing Duke, Ohio State, the nature of the Challenge, and a few odds and ends, including a new game called Trasherbaijan. And after much fanfare, picks were made.

Shane:

Mark,

The ACC-Big Ten Challenge is about 24 hours away, and I have a few questions for you. But first, for the folks at home, it’s probably worthwhile to lay out the background.

So, as you may have already known or guessed, the ACC-Big Ten Challenge is an annual two-day basketball event that pits teams from the ACC against teams from the Big Ten. Each team plays one game, and the conference with the most wins is declared the winner. It began in 1999, when the ACC won 5-4. In fact, the ACC would go on to win the first ten competitions, right up through 2008. But in ’09, trailing 5-4, Wisconsin upset no. 6 Duke and no. 15 Ohio State beat Florida State to give the Big Ten its first victory. The northern aggressors prevailed again last year withanother 6-5 result. The 2011 schedule, beginning tonight, looks like this…….

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