A Look at the ACC Basketball Schedule

Unlike the football season, with its two divisions and eight-game schedule, basketball's a bit more complicated. From Wikipedia:

UNC's permanent partners are, naturally, Duke and N.C. State. Here's a rundown on who's playing who this winter:

If there's a clear winner in this year's scheduling lottery, it's N.C. State, whose only crack at Boston College and Duke come in the friendly confines of Raleigh. Boston College gets a hand as well, getting their only game against Maryland as well as Carolina at home. Which team is behind the scheduling eight ball depends on your perspective. Is Florida State, whose only games against UNC and Duke are both in the Old North State better or worse off than Georgia Tech, the lone ACC team that has home and aways with the two traditional powerhouses? Would you rather be in Virginia's shoes, and meet Boston College and UNC only on the road, or Duke, the lone team playing that pair twice?

OK, that last one's easy. Who would ever want to be Duke?