{"id":1331,"date":"2025-06-21T04:07:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T04:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1331\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T04:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T04:07:11","slug":"tennessee-basketball-sec-opponents-set-for-2025-26-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1331\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Basketball SEC opponents set for 2025-26 season"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tennessee Basketball\u2019s<\/a> SEC opponents for the 2025-26 season<\/a> were announced on Thursday, with the Vols adding a home-and-home series with Alabama among other marquee matchups.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tennessee will also have its regular home-and-homes with Kentucky and Vanderbilt, while playing Alabama both home and away replaces the Florida home-and-home from last season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Vols will host Auburn, LSU, Missouri, Oklahoma, Ole Miss, Texas and Texas A&M in Knoxville, after going on the road for those games lsat season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tennessee will play on the road at Arkansas, Florida, Georgia and South Carolina, after playing those opponents at home on the 2024-25 schedule.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tennessee set to face Louisville, Illinois and Syracuse in non-conference games<\/p>\n

Tennessee\u2019s full schedule for the 2025-26 season has not yet been announced, though three games are already on the books.<\/p>\n

Tennessee will host Louisville on December 16 at Food City Center, after starting the home-and-home with a 77-55 win at Louisville last November.<\/p>\n

Syracuse is the opponent again in the ACC-SEC Challenge, with the Vols playing at Syracuse on December 2. Tennessee lost at North Carolina in November 2023, in the first year of the Challenge, and beat Syracuse 96-70 in Knoxville last season.<\/p>\n

The Vols will reportedly continue their series with Illinois and will play the Illini on December 6 at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville. The two teams played a home-and-home over the last two seasons, with Tennessee sweeping the series.<\/p>\n

Tennessee will also play in the Players Era tournament in Las Vegas in November, playing three games in the event which currently includes a field of 18 teams<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Vols finished fourth in SEC with 12-6 record last season<\/p>\n

Tennessee finished 12-6 in SEC play last season to finish fourth in the league\u2019s regular-season standings. The Vols went on a run to the SEC Championship game, going through No. 1 Auburn to get there, but lost to in the conference final to eventual national champion Florida.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Vols were sept by Kentucky during the regular season and also lost at Ole Miss, at Auburn, at Florida and at Vanderbilt.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tennessee blitzed Kentucky in the Sweet 16 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, winning 78-65 to advance to a second straight Elite Eight.<\/p>\n

Tennessee won the SEC regular-season championship in 2023-24 with a 14-4 record. The Vols were 11-7 in the league in 2022-23 and 14-4 in 2021-22, finishing tied with Auburn for a share of the regular-season title.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tennessee has won 10 or more games in SEC play every season since 2020-21, when the Vols finished 10-7 in the league. They also shared the regular-season title in 2017-18 at 13-5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tennessee Basketball\u2019s SEC opponents for the 2025-26 season were announced on Thursday, with the Vols adding a home-and-home…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[1339,1317,1337,1338,1718,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-1331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-basketball","11":"tag-ncaabasketball","12":"tag-regwall","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114719388578009204","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}