BIRMINGHAM –The Southeastern and Big 12 conferences have announced the games that will be part of their women’s basketball 2018 SEC Challenge
For the third straight season, the Challenge will feature 10 teams from the SEC and all 10 teams from the Big 12. The format features five home games on campus sites for each conference per year. Teams will not face the same opponent twice.
The Commodores will take on Kansas State in this season’s version of the SEC/Big 12 Challenge. The teams will square off for the third time in program history, the first time in a non-neutral site game and the first time in the regular season. Both prior meetings took place in the NCAA Tournament. Vanderbilt owns a 2-0 series advantage with the last meeting between the teams coming in 2008-09 in the NCAA Tournament second round in Albuquerque, N.M.
Additionally, it will be a homecoming of sorts for head coach Stephanie White, who served as an assistant coach at Kansas State for the 2004-05 season.
In 2018, games have been scheduled for the dates of Thursday, November 29 and Sunday, December 2. Exact times and television designations will be released when available. Dates and match-ups for 2019 will be announced at a later date.
The inaugural SEC/Big 12 Challenge was held in 2014 in Little Rock, Arkansas, and featured a top-5 showdown with No. 3 Texas squaring off against No. 4 Texas A&M. Oklahoma and Arkansas, who were both receiving votes, played in the second game. The conferences split the Challenge with the two games decided by a total of nine points. The 2015 version took place in Oklahoma City with the opponents reversed as No. 5 Texas played Arkansas while No. 17 Oklahoma competed against No. 18 Texas A&M. Each league again claimed a win.
In 2016, the SEC edged the Big 12, 6-4, in the first 10-game slate, while in 2017 the conferences split 5-5.
2018 SEC/Big 12 Women’s Basketball Challenge Matchups
Thursday, November 29
Kansas at LSU
TCU at Ole Miss
Sunday, December 2
Baylor at South Carolina
Arkansas at Iowa State
Vanderbilt at K-State
Oklahoma at Auburn
Tennessee at Oklahoma State
Mississippi State at Texas
Texas Tech at Florida
Missouri at West Virginia
