Michigan will challenge Duke in one of the marquee games of this year's Challenge (Getty Images)

ESPN announced the schedule for next season's Big Ten/ACC Challenge on Wednesday. Here's a look at each of the games ranked from 1 to 12.

1. Michigan at Duke (Dec. 3): If the Wolverines and Blue Devils had to go this long without meeting in the Big Ten-ACC Challenge, at least it's a marquee matchup that ought to be worth the wait. Both teams should begin the season in the top 10 with Michigan returning three starters from a team that reached the national title game and Duke boasting one of the nation's best perimeter units.

2. North Carolina at Michigan State (Dec. 4): Two experienced potential top 10 teams will meet in East Lansing for the fifth time in Challenge history, with both teams having split the previous four meetings. Michigan State returns every key player besides Derrick Nix, while North Carolina is highlighted by the inside-outside duo of James Michael McAdoo and P.J. Hairston.

3. Indiana at Syracuse (Dec. 3): A young but talented Hoosiers team seeking to replace Cody Zeller and Victor Oladipo will try to prove it has learned how to attack a two-three zone. Indiana had little success against Syracuse in the Sweet 16 this past March when the Orange sprung an upset on their way to the Final Four.

4. Maryland at Ohio State (Dec. 4): The ACC's latest parting shot to Big Ten-bound Maryland? How about a road game against a Big Ten title contender? Deshaun Thomas' departure creates a scoring void for the Buckeyes, but Sam Thompson and LaQuinton Ross are capable of filling it. Plus, Aaron Craft should be a nightmare defensive matchup for Maryland freshman point guard Roddy Peters.

William Gates Sr. and Jr. (courtesy of the Gates family)

On his first day of high school almost four years ago, William Gates Jr. began to understand the pressure that came with sharing the same name as a Chicago basketball legend.

A classmate familiar with the award-winning 1994 documentary "Hoop Dreams" approached Gates that afternoon and told him he'd never be as good a player as his dad.

Occasional jabs like that were probably inevitable for a kid whose father's basketball exploits were chronicled in one of the most popular documentaries ever made, but the younger Gates exacerbated the situation by trying to emulate his dad. Since Gates wore the same jersey number as his father, attended the same Catholic high school and even played for the same coach, teammates resented the attention he received and opposing fans taunted him with derisive chants.

"Once they found out who my dad was, people in the stands would say, 'You're nothing like your dad' or they'd chant, 'Hoop Dreams' in my face," Gates said. "Being 14, that was a lot to swallow. I was just trying to have fun, but I really couldn't at that time. It was a lot of pressure because I basically tried to recreate my dad's life. I wasn't really playing for me anymore. I was playing so people would be like, 'Oh, you are just as good as your dad.'"

The challenge of trying to eclipse his father's legend gradually drained Gates' passion for basketball.

When he played on the JV team at St. Joseph as a freshman, he felt like a failure because his dad spent all four years on varsity. When he cracked the varsity starting lineup as a sophomore, he still viewed it as a disappointment because his dad had emerged as one of Chicago's best players by then.

Mike Moser (Getty Images)Dana Altman's growing reputation for having success with transfers in their final year of eligibility has helped Oregon land one of the most coveted fifth-year seniors available this spring.

Portland native Mike Moser, a first-team all-Mountain West forward at UNLV during the 2011-12 season, has chosen his hometown Ducks over Washington and Gonzaga, his former AAU coach Kumbeno Memory confirmed via text Tuesday night. Moser is on track to graduate this spring, meaning he'll be able to play immediately and help fill the void at both forward spots left by the graduation of E.J. Singler and Arsalan Kazemi.

The ability of Moser to emulate the success fifth-year transfers Kazemi, Devoe Joseph and Olu Ashaolu enjoyed in their lone seasons at Oregon rests on whether he can regain the form he showed as a sophomore at UNLV.

An elite rebounder who defended multiple positions and scored effectively in transition, Moser contended for Mountain West player of the year that season, averaging 14.0 points and 10.4 rebounds per game. He regressed in all facets of his game as a junior, hampered by a December elbow injury and overtaken in the frontcourt rotation by freshman Anthony Bennett and Pittsburgh transfer Khem Birch.

Moser sought to transition to small forward last season because it's likely the position he would have to play as a pro, but playing on the perimeter exposed his spotty outside shot and prevented him from making as big an impact on the glass. He averaged a modest 7.1 points and 6.1 rebounds and shot only 36.9 percent from the field, becoming more and more of an afterthought as the season went along.