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If you are keeping score at home this will be the seventh time in the Roy Williams era North Carolina has played Michigan St. UNC is undefeated in the previous six meetings with three of those happening in the NCAA Tournament. This will be the first time the Tar Heels have traveled to East Lansing to face the Spartans. Could the seventh time be the charm for Tom Izzo against Roy Williams?
Tuesday, December 3rd
Indiana at Syracuse
Michigan at Duke
Notre Dame at Iowa
FSU at Minnesota
Penn St. at Pittsburgh
Illinois at Georgia Tech
Wednesday, December 4th
North Carolina at Michigan St.
Maryland at Ohio St.
Miami at Nebraska
Wisconsin at Virginia
Boston College at Purdue
Northwestern at NC State
This is UNC's fifth road game in the ACC/B1G Challenge in the past seven years. Instead of delving into some long rant about how the Heels are getting screwed and how Duke "always" plays at home, I am going to assume that other elements of UNC's schedule dictates this. For example, UNC has Kentucky and Texas both playing in Chapel Hill next season so a third major non-conference opponent probably wouldn't make much sense.
Some random notes on the other match-ups.
-Maryland will play in the Challenge despite the fact the ACC had to sit three teams. Clemson, Wake Forest and Virginia Tech all miss out on the event while the traitorous Terps get to play against their future conference.
-Northwestern will play at NC State which mark the return to North Carolin for former Duke assistant coach Chris Collins who now helms the Wildcat program.
-Wisconsin and Virginia are paired together which is as it should be. No one else needs to be exposed to that and hopefully the game will be shown at 3 AM on ESPN8.