The pairings for this year’s ACC-SEC Challenge have been unveiled, and as expected, Louisville will take on one of the teams expected to compete for the SEC championship.
Sean Miller’s Texas Longhorns, a potential, preseason top 10 team, will make an appearance inside the KFC Yum Center for a high-profile contest on Tuesday, Dec. 1.
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Here are the full pairings for this year’s event:
2026 SEC/ACC Men’s Challenge
Tuesday, December 1
Auburn at Clemson
Duke at Florida
Texas at Louisville
Florida State at Tennessee
Wake Forest at LSU
Pitt at Missouri
South Carolina at NC State
Arkansas at North Carolina
Syracuse at Oklahoma
Ole Miss at Virginia Tech
Boston College at Georgia
Wednesday, December 2
Georgia Tech at Mississippi State
Vanderbilt at Notre Dame
Alabama at Miami
Stanford at Texas A&M
Kentucky at Virginia
Big man Matas Vokietaitis (15.6 ppg) is the headline returner from a Texas team that crashed the Sweet 16 as an 11-seed last March. He’ll join forces with a top five transfer portal class that features Isaiah Johnson (16.9 PPG at Colorado), David Punch (14.1 PPG at TCU) and Mikey Lewis (13.9 PPG at Saint Mary’s), among others.
This is exactly the type of home game I think the fan base wants to see Pat Kelsey win during the first month of the season. Should be a heck of a night.
