For the first time in the now 11-year history of the ACC – Big Ten Challenge the Big Ten Conference walked away with more wins than the Atlantic Coast Conference.

It was a year of firsts. Penn State became the first Big Ten team to win three consecutive Challenge games and Duke lost for the first time.

Results:

Penn State wins at Virginia 69-66 (Big Ten leads 1-0)
Purdue wins at home against Wake Forest 69-58 (Big Ten leads 2-0)
Northwestern wins at North Carolina State 65-53 (Big Ten leads 3-0)
Maryland wins at Indiana 80-68 (Big Ten leads 3-1)
North Carolina wins at home against Michigan State 89-82 (Big Ten leads 3-2)
Virginia Tech wins at Iowa 70-64 (Tied at 3)
Illinois wins at Clemson 76-74 (Big Ten leads 4-3)
Boston College wins at Michigan 62-48 (Tied at 4)
Miami wins at home against Minnesota 63-58 (ACC leads 5-4)
Wisconsin wins at home against Duke 73-69 (Tied at 5)
Ohio State wins at home against Florida State 77-64 (Big ten wins 6-5)

What does the Challenge victory really mean?

For one it gives the Big Ten bragging rights for a year. Also, and more importantly, hopefully come selection Sunday the committee will take notice that the Big Ten is a conference to be reckoned with and might be in need of receiving an extra bid over a mid-major or an ACC bubble team.