Florida at Duke headlines ACC/SEC Obstacle

• Jeff BorzelloJun 12, 2025, 02:31 PM ET

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  • Basketball recruiting insider.
  • Signed up with ESPN in 2014.
  • Graduate of University of Delaware.The matches for the

third annual ACC/SEC Challenge were revealed Wednesday, highlighted on the males’s side by Duke hosting ruling national champions Florida and several prospective top-10 matches on the ladies’s side.The 2 leagues split the first series on both the guys’s and

females’s side, while the SEC swept both in 2015. The SEC clinched the males’s title after winning the very first nine games of the 2024 ACC/SEC Challenge.The men’s event will take place on Dec. 2 and Dec. 3, with Florida’s trip to Duke and a blue-blood matchup between North Carolina and Kentucky highlighting the first night. The headliner on Dec. 3 is a possible top-10 matchup in between Louisville and Arkansas, while NC State and brand-new head coach Will Wade travel to Auburn that night as well.Florida( No. 2), Louisville( No. 7), Kentucky (No. 9), Arkansas (No. 11), Duke(No. 12), Auburn(No. 14

), NC State (No. 24) and North Carolina (No. 25)are all consisted of in ESPN’s most recent Leading 25 rankings.Other noteworthy matchups consist of a battle of first-year head coaches when Ryan Odom and Virginia travel to deal with Sean Miller and Texas on Dec. 3 and No. 17 Alabama hosting Clemson in a rematch of the 2024 Elite Eight game that gave the Crimson Tide their very first Last 4 appearance.The women’s occasion is scheduled for Dec. 3 and Dec. 4, with several games between teams ranked in the leading 10 of ESPN’s Way-Too-Early Top 25. The SEC and ACC have a combined 9 groups ranked inside the top 11. Dec. 3 is headlined by No. 9 NC State taking a trip to No. 6 Oklahoma, while Dec. 4 is packed with top-level matchups.National runner-up and No. 1 South Carolina travels to No. 17 Louisville and there are top-10 games featuring No. 5 LSU heading to No. 8 Duke and No. 4 Texas hosting No. 10 North Carolina. No. 18 Notre Dame also plays at No. 14 Ole Miss.Times and television designations are yet

to be revealed. Both the males’s and ladies’s events will be televised throughout ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ACC Network and SEC Network.Full listing of ACC/SEC Challenge matches Men’s Challenge Dec. 2 Florida at Duke UNC at Kentucky Tennessee at Syracuse Texas A&M

at Pittsburgh Missouri at Notre Dame Georgia at Florida State Oklahoma at Wake Forest Miami at Ole Miss Virginia Tech at South Carolina Dec. 3 NC State at Auburn Louisville at Arkansas SMU at Vanderbilt Clemson at Alabama Mississippi State at

Georgia Tech LSU at Boston College Virginia at Texas Women’s Obstacle Dec. 3

Kentucky at Miami Tennessee at Stanford NC

State at Oklahoma Georgia at Florida State

Auburn at Syracuse Georgia

Tech at Texas A&M

Virginia at Vanderbilt Dec. 4

LSU at Duke South Carolina at Louisville Florida at Virginia Tech Notre Dame at Ole Miss UNC at Texas Clemson at Alabama Arkansas at SMU Pittsburgh at Mississippi State California at Missouri