Matchups Set for the 2019 SEC/Big 12 Challenge

The sixth annual SEC/Big 12 Challenge will feature 10 games played on Saturday, January 26, 2019, in a matchup of two premier college basketball conferences.

All 10 of the Big 12’s teams and 10 of the SEC’s 14 member institutions will participate in this year’s event. Each of the 10 SEC teams that participated in the 2018 Challenge are a part of the 2019 event.

The SEC is coming off a 6-4 win in the Big 12/SEC Challenge after a 5-5 tie in 2017.

A record eight SEC teams participated in the 2018 NCAA Tournament and excitement for the 2019 season is building with 19 of ESPN.com’s Top 100 recruits having signed with SEC schools. In all, the SEC boasts six of ESPN.com’s Top 25 in-coming recruiting classes.

This will be the fourth year that a bye in the league schedule for participating teams was created to accommodate the single-day format. The four SEC teams not participating will play each other in conference games the same day. The first two years of the challenge were played over several days in November and December but the 2019 event will be consolidated to one single day in January.

Four of the 10 games will be televised on ESPN, four on ESPN2 and two games will air on ESPNU. All 10 games will also be available on the ESPN app. ESPN’s College GameDay Covered by State Farm – the Saturday roadshow that discusses the top storylines of the college basketball season – will originate from one of the Challenge games.

“The Big 12/SEC Challenge is a unique opportunity to showcase our basketball programs. Playing the event on a single-date in January puts our programs in the college basketball spotlight,” SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey said.

Start times and network designations will be announced at a later date.

2019 SEC/Big 12 Challenge (January 26, 2019):

Alabama at Baylor

Arkansas at Texas Tech

Florida at TCU

Texas at Georgia

Kansas at Kentucky

Iowa State at Ole Miss

South Carolina at Oklahoma State

West Virginia at Tennessee

Kansas State at Texas A&M

Vanderbilt at Oklahoma