According to Tennessee Athletics, The Southeastern Conference released its 2025 women’s basketball schedule on Wednesday, and Tennessee’s 16-game slate features home games against five teams appearing in the ESPN Way-Too-Early Top 25 and road tilts vs. three additional foes residing in that poll.
First-year Lady Vol head coach Kim Caldwell’s squad will welcome No. 1 South Carolina, No. 7 LSU, No. 13 Oklahoma, No. 21 Alabama and No. 23 Ole Miss to Food City Center. They’ll also face No. 6 Texas, No. 7 LSU and No. 25 Kentucky on the road. Oklahoma and Texas, former members of the Big 12 Conference, are making their debuts in the now 16-team SEC.
Conference play will begin on Thursday, Jan. 2, and run through Sunday, March 2. The schedule consists of a single round robin (14 games) of home and away contests with one rotating home/away opponent (2 games). LSU is the rotating foe in 2025.
Once again, each team will play eight home games and eight away contests. The 2025 season marks the 16th year of the 16-game schedule for women’s basketball and the first with 16 teams competing for a championship.
Caldwell’s troops will open SEC action on the road, facing Texas A&M in College Station on Jan. 2 before returning home to play host to Oklahoma and LSU in back-to-back games vs. preseason top-15 units on Jan. 5 and 9.
Lady Vol’s Conference games can be heard on MIX 99.3 this season.