The Vanderbilt men's and women's basketball programs have set opponents for the 2025-26 ACC/SEC Challenge in December.

SEC Challenge were released Thursday, with the ACC looking to improve on its success in the last two seasons. Duke will play LSU at Cameron Indoor Stadium, while North Carolina and N.C. State are hitting the road.

South Carolina, North Carolina-Kentucky, NC State-Auburn and Louisville-Arkansas among the pairings for the third ACC/SEC Challenge in

Auburn basketball’s ACC/SEC challenge game in 2025 will be an SEC coaching reunion of sorts. The Tigers will take on NC State, the school announced on Thursday, creating a matchup between Bruce Pearl and first-year NC State coach Will Wade, who coached LSU from 2017-2022.

The Missouri Tigers men's basketball program announced its opponent for the third annual ACC/SEC Challenge on Thursday.

The defending national champion Florida men’s basketball team will visit powerhouse Duke next December in matchup of schools with a combined eight national titles.

The ACC/SEC Men’s Challenge will take place over back-to-back days Tuesday, Dec. 2, and Wednesday, Dec. 3, while the ACC/SEC Women’s Challenge is slated for Dec. 3 and Thursday, Dec. 4. Both the men’s and women’s events will be televised across ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ACC Network and SEC Network.

Over the past 24 hours, both the men's and women's basketball matchups for the 2025 ACC/SEC Challenge have been announced. Virginia Tech's men's basketball team

Last season, their fifth under coach Kara Lawson, the Blue Devils finished in third place in the ACC standings, won their conference tournament and reached the NCAA Tournament's Elite Eight, where they lost a close game to eventual national runner-up South Carolina.

Syracuse has the hardest schedule in the ACC in 2025