The Big Ten Conference and Atlantic Coast Conference announced the schedule for next season's ACC-Big Ten women's basketball challenge today.

The University of Wisconsin faces Virginia Tech Thursday, Dec. 4 at the Kohl Center. The Hokies went 15-15 last season, and 2-12 in ACC play.

They didn't have a senior on last year's squad, though, so maybe the future is brighter.

The Badgers and the Hokies have met once before, with Virginia Tech winning 75-64 in the first round of the 1998 NCAA tournament.

Here are the other matchups:

Wednesday, Dec. 3
Michigan State at Georgia Tech
North Carolina at Ohio State
Penn State at Florida State

Thursday, Dec. 4
Northwestern at Clemson
Maryland at Purdue
Virginia at Illinois
Boston College at Minnesota
Iowa at Duke

Friday, Dec. 5
North Carolina State at Michigan
Indiana at Miami

Last year the games weren't scheduled as close together, so that's a change.

The Big Ten will be hoping to improve on last year's showing, when it won three of the 11 games. UW had one of those eight losses, falling 84-60 at Virginia. 

Apparently the name of the event is going to rotate between ACC-Big Ten Challenge and Big Ten-ACC Challenge each year. That is ridiculous in my opinion. Just pick a name and stick with it.