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No. 3 Tennessee defeats Syracuse in SEC/ACC Challenge

No. 3 Tennessee wins against Syracuse in SEC/ACC Challenge.

No. 3 Tennessee (8-0) defeated Syracuse (4-3), 96-70, on Tuesday at Food City Center. Rankings reflect the USA TODAY Sports Men’s Basketball Coaches Poll.

The Vols remain undefeated during the 2024-25 season.

Chaz Lanier led Tennessee in scoring with 26 points. He also recorded four rebounds, two assists and one steal in 28 minutes.

Igor Milicic Jr. led the Vols in rebounds (10), while Zakai Zeigler led Tennessee with eight assists.

Elijah Moore was Syracuse’s leading scorer with 24 points.

Tennessee totaled 32 bench points, 44 points in the paint, 19 points off turnovers, 16 second chance points and 13 fast break points.

The Vols also debuted their dark mode uniforms against Syracuse.

21, 678 were in attendance for the SEC/ACC Challenge contest.

LSU men’s, women’s basketball SEC/ACC Challenge games set

The men’s team will face Syracuse for the second time in program history, while the women draw a Final Four rematch against Virginia Tech.

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.

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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