Men’s, women’s ACC/SEC matchups revealed

• Jeff Borzello, ESPN Personnel WriterJun 28, 2023, 01:00 PM ET

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  • Basketball recruiting insider.
  • Joined ESPN in 2014.
  • Graduate of University of Delaware.The matchups for the

first ACC/SEC Challenge were announced Wednesday early morning, headlined by Duke’s trip to Arkansas on the males’s side and Virginia Tech’s game against LSU on the women’s side.The ACC/SEC Men’s Obstacle will take place

Nov. 28 and Nov. 28, while the Women’s Difficulty is set up for Nov. 29 and 30. On the men’s side, there are three games in between most likely preseason top-25 teams: Miami at Kentucky, Tennessee at North Carolina, and Duke at Arkansas.Editor’s Picks 2 Related The marquee match will be heaven Devils, who are presently ranked No.

2 in ESPN’s Way-Too-Early Top 25, traveling to deal with Arkansas, currently ranked No. 14. Duke generates the country’s second-ranked recruiting class and welcomes back four of five beginners, while Arkansas adds 6 transfers as it hopes to make its fourth straight appearance in the NCAA competition’s 2nd weekend.Meanwhile, Tennessee could open the season as the preferred to win the SEC, and North Carolina is aiming to recuperate from its dreadful project in 2022-23.

Kentucky has refilled in the previous 2 weeks, restoring Antonio Reeves and adding West Virginia transfer Tre Mitchell to the No. 1 inbound recruiting class, and the Wildcats will host a Miami team coming off a Final 4 run.On the women’s side, Virginia Tech– ranked No. 9 in the Way-Too-Early Top 25– will head to LSU, where the Tigers are coming off a championship game and are most likely to open the season ranked No. 1 with the return of Angel Reese and the addition of Louisville transfer Hailey Van Lith.Notre Dame at Tennessee, Louisville at Ole Miss and South Carolina at North Carolina are three other interesting matchups.This is the very first season of the ACC/SEC Basketball Obstacle, which was announced last November and will replace the ACC/Big Ten Challenge, which ran from 1999 till last season, as well as the SEC/Big 12 Challenge that was held for the past ten years.

“The future ACC/SEC Male’s and Women’s Basketball Obstacles will be impressive occasions for our student-athletes, member organizations and fans, “ACC commissioner Jim Phillips said at the time.”The SEC, led by Greg Sankey, and our partners at ESPN have actually been excellent

, and there’s fantastic excitement for the first yearly ACC/SEC Challenge next season. As part of this statement, we wish to acknowledge the Huge Ten for its collaboration on the ACC/B1G Obstacle that covered more than twenty years.” “We are ecstatic ladies’s and men’s basketball student-athletes will have the chance to take on their associates from the ACC as we initiate a new Basketball Difficulty experience,”SEC commissioner Greg Sankey added in November. “I value the partnership of Jim Phillips and the ACC

members, together with our broadcast partner ESPN, to make possible the SEC/ACC Basketball Obstacle which will provide our fans with amazing basketball early in the 2023-24 season. I likewise thank the Big 12 for the lots of great obstacle games we experienced together in previous years.”Guys’s matchups: Tuesday, Nov. 28 LSU at Syracuse(7 p.m.)Missouri at Pittsburgh( 7 p.m.)Mississippi State at Georgia Tech (7 p.m.) Notre Dame at South Carolina(7 p.m. )Miami at Kentucky (7:30 p.m.)NC State at Ole Miss(9 p.m.) Clemson at Arkansas(9:30 p.m. )Wednesday, Nov. 29 Tennessee at North Carolina(7:15 p.m.)Texas A&M at Virginia (7:15 p.m.)Florida at Wake Forest

(7:15 p.m. )Duke at Arkansas (9:15 p.m.)Virginia Tech at Auburn (9:15 p.m.)Georgia at Florida State (9:15 p.m.)Boston College at Vanderbilt (9:15 p.m.)Ladies’s matches: Wednesday, Nov. 29 Notre Dame at Tennessee (5 p.m.)

Florida at Georgia Tech(5 p.m.)

Vanderbilt at NC State(

7:15 p.m.) Miami at Mississippi State (7:15

p.m.) Louisville at Ole Miss( 9:15 p.m.)

Thursday, Nov. 30 Missouri at Virginia

(5 p.m.) Duke at Georgia( 5 p.m.

)South Carolina at North Carolina (7 p.m.)Arkansas at Florida State (7 p.m.)

Alabama at Syracuse (7 p.m.)

Boston College at Kentucky(7 p.m.)Virginia Tech

at LSU (9 p.m.)

Texas A&M at Wake Forest (9 p.m.)

Clemson at Auburn (9 p.m.)