PARIS – The Vanderbilt women’s basketball team opens the 2025-26 season in the City of Light on Nov. 3, as the Commodores take on California in the 2025 Oui-Play Paris.
Vanderbilt arrives in Paris on Oct. 30 and departs on Nov. 4. The contest between the Dores and Golden Bears takes place at Adidas Arena in Paris. Fans wanting to join Vandy in Paris can do so with an exclusive fan pack provided by Complete Sports Management. Fans can click here for more information on the 2025 Oui-Play fan pack.
All tickets for the 2025 Oui-Play Paris go on sale Friday at noon CT. Fans looking to purchase game tickets can do so at the link here.
All tipoff times and television information for the 2025 Oui-Play Paris games will be announced at a later date.
“Our program is thrilled to be opening this upcoming season in the Oui-Play showcase in Paris,” said Vanderbilt women’s basketball head coach Shea Ralph. “We are incredibly grateful to Dr. Candice Storey Lee and our Vanderbilt administration for giving us this truly special opportunity to showcase our basketball team and university on an international stage. We are passionately continuing the work to propel Vanderbilt basketball back to national prominence, and tipping our season off in this manner proves our commitment to that vision. As the landscape of college athletics changes, we feel fortunate to represent a university and community that values women’s basketball and allows us to compete on a global stage.”
It is the third edition of the Oui-Play event, developed and managed by Complete Sports Management. Vanderbilt is one of four teams opening the 2025-26 season in Paris, as California, along with Duke and Baylor, will also be in the City of Light.
Vanderbilt and California will meet for the fifth time, with the all-time series tied at two wins each. The Golden Bears were victorious 67-59 in the last meeting on Dec. 2, 2007, in the Contra Costa Times Classic on the UC Berkeley campus. This year’s matchup is the first neutral-site contest between the two schools. Both teams participated in the 2024 Acrisure Classic in Palm Springs, California, last season, although they did not play each other.
Vanderbilt enters the 2025-26 season returning eight players from a team that went 22-11 a season ago and featured the highest-scoring duo in the nation in Mikayla Blakes (23.3 points per game) and Khamil Pierre (20.4 points per game). Ralph comes into her fifth season commanding the Commodores with a 73-59 (.553) record and a 45-21 (.682) mark over her last two seasons, which includes 17 victories against SEC teams. Vanderbilt has made back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances the last two seasons, a first since the program earned 15-straight bids from 1999-2014.
Season tickets for the 2025-26 Vanderbilt women’s basketball campaign are now on sale. Fans can click the link here to purchase season tickets.
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