The Iowa women’s basketball team will visit Duke in the second ACC/Big Ten Challenge, the conferences announced on Thursday.

The game will be played on Dec. 4 in Durham, N.C., and will give the Iowa women the experience of playing in one of college basketball’s most historic venues, Cameron Indoor Stadium.

“They have an exciting women’s basketball environment and we look forward to the test of playing in that venue,” Hawkeye coach Lisa Bluder said in a statement.

Cameron Indoor is a unique environment, a throwback in many ways to a classic era of collegiate basketball with its wood-grained and brass-rimmed balcony overhangs to the close environs that opposing teams find themselves dealing with when they meet the Blue Devils.

The arena is also the site of final college game played by Iowa’s Chris Street, who was killed in an auto accident two days after the Hawkeye men lost a 65-56 game there on Jan. 16, 1993.

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