SEC announces Tennessee Basketball's 2024-25 conference schedule
Tennessee Basketball’s SEC schedule will start with a pair of familiar faces. The Vols will host Arkansas on January 4 to open league play against John Calipari’s Razorbacks and former Tennessee center Jonas Aidoo.
The SEC announced full conference schedules for the 2024-25 season on Tuesday afternoon. The league stayed at 18 games and includes a built-in bye week for every team for a second straight season.
Tennessee’s full schedule for the 2024-25 season, including non-conference games, has not yet been announced.
Calipari left Kentucky in April to take over as head coach at Arkansas and landed Aidoo out of the NCAA Transfer Portal a little less than three weeks later. Aidoo was one of four Tennessee players to transfer during the offseason, along with sophomore forward Tobe Awaka (Arizona), redshirt freshman guard Freddie Dilione V (Penn State) and redshirt freshman wing DJ Jefferson (Longwood).
A closer look: Tennessee’s SEC schedule
After opening with Arkansas at home, Tennessee will play at Florida on either January 7 or 8 and will play at Texas on January 11. The Vols host Georgia on either January 14 or 15, go to Vanderbilt on January 18 and host Mississippi State on January 21.
Texas and Tennessee have played each of the last three seasons. The Longhorns won in Austin in January 2022, the Vols won in Knoxville in January 2023 and Tennessee beat Texas in March in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
Tennessee goes to Auburn on January 25 and hosts Kentucky on January 28 to end the month.
February starts with a home dates against Florida on February 1 and Missouri on February 4 or 5. The Vols go to Oklahoma on February 8 and Kentucky on either February 11 or 12. Tennessee hosts Vanderbilt on February 15 and are then off until playing at Texas A&M on February 22. The month ends at LSU on February 25 or 26.
Tennessee’s final three regular-season games are in March. The Vols play Alabama at home on March 1, go to Ole Miss on March 4 or 5 and end will have senior day at home against South Carolina on March 8.
What we know about Tennessee’s non-conference schedule
Select non-conference games have been either reported or officially announced in recent weeks.
Tennessee will start a two-year home-and-home with Louisville with a road game at Louisville on November 9.
The Vols will play two games in the Baha Mar Hoops Tournament in the Bahamas November 21-22. The bracket has not yet been announced. Baylor, St. John’s and Virginia are the other three teams in the field.
Tennessee will host Syracuse in the ACC-SEC Challenge and will face Miami in the Jimmy V Classic at Madison Square Garden in December. The Vols will also go to Illinois in December, the second game of a home-and-home that started with a Tennessee win in Knoxville last season.
