The SEC/Big 12 Challenge is no more.
Beginning in the 2023-24 season, it will be replaced by the SEC/ACC Challenge, pitting basketball teams from each league against each other. For LSU, both the men’s and women’s teams were selected.
On the men’s side, coach Matt McMahon’s team will take on Syracuse in its first season without legendary coach Jim Boeheim. This will be a rare college basketball matchup between power programs as the two have only met once, a win for the Orange back in 1985.
The teams were supposed to play at Madison Square Garden in Dec. 2020 in a matchup that was ultimately scratched due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The defending national champion women’s team, on the other hand, will face an opponent it’s more intimately familiar with. It will be a rematch of the Final Four contest from this year’s NCAA tournament, which the Tigers won 79-72, knocking the No. 1-seeded Hokies out of the tournament.
Heading to the Big 🍎
The Tigers will travel to take on Syracuse in the first ACC/SEC Challenge on Tuesday, Nov. 28, at 6 p.m. CT!
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— LSU Basketball (@LSUBasketball) June 28, 2023
It's A Final Four Rematch In Baton Rouge
LSU will face Virginia Tech for the SEC/ACC Challenge on November 30 in the PMAC!
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— LSU Women's Basketball (@LSUwbkb) June 28, 2023
The men will play in Syracuse, New York, on Nov. 28 at 6 p.m. CT, while the women will play in Baton Rouge two nights later against VT on Nov. 30 at 8 p.m.
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