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The Auburn Tigers' SEC schedule has officially been released.
The SEC dropped conference game schedules for all SEC teams on Tuesday afternoon. Auburn will open their SEC slate January 4th at home against the Missouri Tigers before going on the road to face off against the Texas Longhorns, who joins the league alongside the Oklahoma Sooners this fall. Auburn will play Oklahoma either February 4th or 5th.
You can find the entire conference schedule below:
Please Note: Midweek date designations are still being finalized by ESPN.
2024-25 AUBURN MEN’S BASKETBALL SEC SCHEDULE
DATE OPPONENT
Jan. 4 MISSOURI
Jan. 7/8 at Texas
Jan. 11 at South Carolina
Jan. 14/15 MISSISSIPPI STATE
Jan. 18 at Georgia
Jan. 25 TENNESSEE
Jan. 28/29 at LSU
Feb. 1 at Ole Miss
Feb. 4/5 OKLAHOMA
Feb. 8 FLORIDA
Feb. 11/12 at Vanderbilt
Feb. 15 at Alabama
Feb. 18/19 ARKANSAS
Feb. 22 GEORGIA
Feb. 25/26 OLE MISS
March 1 at Kentucky
March 4/5 at Texas A&M
March 8 ALABAMA
March 12-16 at SEC Championship (Nashville, Tenn.)
The Tigers are slated to play in the Maui Invitational this season against some of the best college basketball has to offer. According to Jon Rothstein, Auburn's first opponent they will face in the invitational will be the Iowa State Cyclones.
The rest of the opening matchups of the invitational are as follows:
UConn/Memphis
Michigan State/Colorado
North Carolina/Dayton
Iowa State finished last season with a 29-8 record, making the Sweet 16 in the NCAA Tournament before losing to Illinois. The Cyclones had the No. 1 defense in the nation according to KenPom. Torvik, another analytics website, has Iowa State as the No. 3 team in the nation as we approach the 2024-25 season.
Auburn is projected to be one of the nation's best teams as well. Torvik has Bruce Pearl & Co. ranked preseason No. 7. In the Way Too Early Top 25 preseason rankings, UH was picked No. 1 by CBS Sports and No. 2 by The Athletic , while Auburn was selected No. 8 and No. 10 by both media outlets respectively.
The Tigers' non-conference schedule already includes the Houston Cougars, Duke Blue Devils, and Purdue Boilermakers. Auburn signed a two-year series with Houston at the beginning of August.
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