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WBB To Host Kentucky In ACC/SEC Challenge
June 13, 2024 | Women's Basketball
North Carolina will host Kentucky in the second annual Women's ACC/SEC Challenge on Thursday Dec. 5, 2024, the ACC announced on Wednesday.
The second annual SEC/ACC Challenges will take place over back-to-back days. The men's challenge will be Tuesday, Dec. 3, and Wednesday, Dec. 4, while the women's challenge is slated for Wednesday, Dec. 4 and Thursday, Dec. 5. Both the men's and women's challenge events will feature games across ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ACC Network and SEC Network.
Coverage details, including network designations and game times, will be announced at a later date.
UNC and Kentucky will meet for the first time since the 2018-19 season, when the Wildcats won 85-75 in a matchup played at the Paradise Jam in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Carolina leads the overall series 5-1. The teams last met in Chapel Hill in the 2001-02 season, with UNC winning 102-64 at Carmichael on Nov. 28, 2001.
In the first year of the ACC/SEC Challenge in 2023, both the men's and women's events, featuring 14 games, finished in 7-7 ties. The events expand to 16 games this season with the expansion of both conferences starting this summer ahead of the 2024-25 athletic year.
On the women's side, programs currently in the ACC have made 24 trips to the Final Four including six teams in the last six years, capped off by NC State this past season in 2023-24. Last season, the ACC sent a nation-best eight teams to the NCAA Tournament, marking the sixth consecutive season the ACC has sent eight teams to March Madness. At least one ACC team has advanced to the Elite Eight in each of the past 22 NCAA Tournaments, with NC State, Notre Dame and Duke earning a spot last season. It is the longest streak of any conference, with the next closest streak at 14.
2024 SEC/ACC Women's Challenge
Wednesday, Dec. 4
Florida State at Tennessee
Mississippi State at Georgia Tech
Oklahoma at Louisville
Vanderbilt at Miami
Syracuse at Texas A&M
Virginia Tech at Georgia
Thursday, Dec. 5
Boston College at Arkansas
Alabama at Cal
Florida at Clemson
Duke at South Carolina
Kentucky at North Carolina
Ole Miss at NC State
Texas at Notre Dame
SMU at Missouri
Stanford at LSU
Auburn at Virginia
The second annual SEC/ACC Challenges will take place over back-to-back days. The men's challenge will be Tuesday, Dec. 3, and Wednesday, Dec. 4, while the women's challenge is slated for Wednesday, Dec. 4 and Thursday, Dec. 5. Both the men's and women's challenge events will feature games across ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ACC Network and SEC Network.
Coverage details, including network designations and game times, will be announced at a later date.
UNC and Kentucky will meet for the first time since the 2018-19 season, when the Wildcats won 85-75 in a matchup played at the Paradise Jam in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Carolina leads the overall series 5-1. The teams last met in Chapel Hill in the 2001-02 season, with UNC winning 102-64 at Carmichael on Nov. 28, 2001.
In the first year of the ACC/SEC Challenge in 2023, both the men's and women's events, featuring 14 games, finished in 7-7 ties. The events expand to 16 games this season with the expansion of both conferences starting this summer ahead of the 2024-25 athletic year.
On the women's side, programs currently in the ACC have made 24 trips to the Final Four including six teams in the last six years, capped off by NC State this past season in 2023-24. Last season, the ACC sent a nation-best eight teams to the NCAA Tournament, marking the sixth consecutive season the ACC has sent eight teams to March Madness. At least one ACC team has advanced to the Elite Eight in each of the past 22 NCAA Tournaments, with NC State, Notre Dame and Duke earning a spot last season. It is the longest streak of any conference, with the next closest streak at 14.
2024 SEC/ACC Women's Challenge
Wednesday, Dec. 4
Florida State at Tennessee
Mississippi State at Georgia Tech
Oklahoma at Louisville
Vanderbilt at Miami
Syracuse at Texas A&M
Virginia Tech at Georgia
Thursday, Dec. 5
Boston College at Arkansas
Alabama at Cal
Florida at Clemson
Duke at South Carolina
Kentucky at North Carolina
Ole Miss at NC State
Texas at Notre Dame
SMU at Missouri
Stanford at LSU
Auburn at Virginia
Tuesday, June 23
Sunday, June 21
Sunday, June 21
Saturday, June 20