The irony of my going to Duke to save my life can only be appreciated by somebody who knows that I am a fanatic University of Maryland basketball fan with no use for the Duke Blue Devils and their student basketball fans, who certainly have not turned the other cheek toward me.

The ingenious taunts by the students at Duke's Cameron Indoor Stadium are usually directed against opposing players, but I am one fan who also has been the target of the "Cameron Crazies."

During my last visit there to watch a game won by Maryland, students raised a placard with two pictures: one of Benedict Arnold and one of me. "Two Traitors," said the headline.

Raycom Sports posted their ACC men's basketball TV schedule on their website even though the ACC itself hadn't released any part of the schedule.

Needless to say, they took it down.

The damage has been done, as ACC Now still has all that info that was originally up.

The biggest game of the season ... North Carolina at Duke ... will take place on February 11th at 9:00pm. Most of the country sees this game on ESPN, but ACC country sees the game on their local Raycom affiliate. Other big games:

-Wake Forest at Boston College (1/14)
-Maryland at Miami (1/15)
-Virginia Tech at Virginia (1/18)
-Maryland at North Carolina (2/3)
-Florida State at Wake Forest (2/14)
-NC State at North Carolina (2/18)
-Florida State at Duke (3/3)

During their down time, ESPN loves to do rankings to see who is the best/worst/whatever at something. Since college hoops is in their dead period, they decided to rank the top 300+ programs since the NCAA Tournament expanded to 64 teams (1984-1985 season).

They have finally gotten to the top and ... to no one's surprise ... it was occupied by Duke.

By any measure of success, Duke is king of the hill in college basketball in the 64-team era of the NCAA tournament. Besides the three national titles, Duke is No. 1 among all basketball programs with 69 NCAA tournament wins, 12 first team All-Americans, 11 top-10 NBA picks, 10 No. 1 seeds and seven title game appearances. An easy selection in any format for No. 1.

For the third time this decade, the ACC had only one player taken in the first round. It also happened in 2000 (Georgia Tech's Jason Collier) and 2004 (Duke's Luol Deng).

Those seasons were also the smallest overall draft classes for the ACC. Only two players were drafted in 2000 (Duke's Chris Carrawell was the other) and four total in 2004.

"Jim Lampley (a UNC graduate) has been telling me about the rivalry for 20 years or so," says HBO Sports president Ross Greenburg. "I was also aware of the subculture of both universities, and even though UNC was the state school, they think of themselves as the dignified force in the rivalry. They think Duke is a bunch of animals even though Duke is supposed to be the Ivy League of the South. That never meshed right with me and it was interesting. Plus, you had all these legends coming out of these two schools, the [Michael] Jordan's, the [Christian] Laettner's and the [Mike] Krzyzewski's and [Dean] Smith's. Unbelievable iconic names have floated through both places and it makes for a great documentary."