Defending national champion Duke and 2015 Final Four partners Wisconsin and Michigan State will be in the field for the 17th annual Big Ten/ACC Challenge, it was announced Wednesday. The Challenge will be held Nov. 30 to Dec. 2 and ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNU will televise all 14 games.
The field includes nine teams in the ESPN.com early preseason top 25: North Carolina, Maryland, Virginia, Duke, Michigan State, Notre Dame, Indiana, Louisville and Wisconsin. Thirteen of the teams appeared in the 2015 NCAA tournament.
Networks and times will be announced in August.
Here are the pairings.
| Date | Game |
| Mon, Nov 30 | Clemson at Minnesota |
| Wake Forest at Rutgers | |
| Tue, Dec 1 | No. 4 Maryland at No. 2 North Carolina |
| No. 5 Virginia at Ohio State | |
| Michigan at NC State | |
| Purdue at Pittsburgh | |
| Northwestern at Virginia Tech | |
| Miami (Fla.) at Nebraska | |
| Wed, Dec 2 | No. 14 Indiana at No. 7 Duke |
| No. 21 Louisville at No. 12 Michigan State | |
| No. 13 Notre Dame at Illinois | |
| No. 25 Wisconsin at Syracuse | |
| Florida State at Iowa | |
| Penn State at Boston College |
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