BEVO BEAT Men's Basketball
Texas to play familiar foe in SEC/Big 12 Challenge in 2019
Posted May 24th, 2018
The Longhorns are going back to the Peach State in 2019.
The Texas men’s basketball team will play a new-look Georgia squad in the 2019 SEC/Big 12 Challenge on Jan. 26, 2019. Longhorns will once again travel to Georgia, where they lost to the Bulldogs in the 2017 challenge, 59-57, in Athens. Texas defeated Ole Miss in the 2018 challenge in Austin, 85-72.
Georgia hired former Indiana coach Tom Crean this offseason after firing coach Mark Fox following an 18-15 season.
Texas is 3-2 in the series of games against the SEC, and Shaka Smart is 2-1 with wins over the Rebels and Vanderbilt.
Last season the SEC won the challenge after the Big 12 won the first three editions.
The other matchups include:
Alabama at Baylor
Iowa State at Ole Miss
Kansas at Kentucky
Kansas State at Texas A&M
Vanderbilt at Oklahoma
South Carolina at Oklahoma State
Florida at TCU
Texas at Georgia
Arkansas at Texas Tech
West Virginia at Tennessee
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