Alabama and Auburn SEC Hoops Opponents For 2025-26 Season Revealed

June 19, 2025 Michael Brauner Alabama, Alabama, Auburn, Auburn, Featured News
KNOXVILLE, TN - FEBRUARY 28: Auburn Tigers head coach Bruce Pearl coaches during the college basketball game between the Tennessee Volunteers and the Auburn Tigers on February 28, 2024, at Food City Center in Knoxville, TN. (Photo by Bryan Lynn/Icon Sportswire)

After a season for the Southeastern Conference which was not just the strongest on the basketball court it has ever had but historically dominant in terms of any conference in the history of the sport, anticipation is high for the slate of SEC games beginning in the 2025-26 season.

Though hoops has typically fallen on the backburner and not generally even considered until football season comes to a close, it won’t be long before conference play kicks off right around Christmas time and the beginning of January.

Though dates are not known yet, the conference released its slate of opponents for each team, and both Alabama and Auburn are going to have a very difficult schedule once again.

As is tradition, the two rivals will get to face off twice, but that is not the case for every team in the conference for an 18-game slate in a 16-game conference.

The way schedules are made, each team has two permanent home-and-home (two matchup) opponents and one who rotates. Alabama’s two permanent ones are Auburn and Mississippi State, and their rotating one this season is Tennessee, meaning they will face the Volunteers twice.

Auburn meanwhile has permanent home-and-home opponents of Alabama and Ole Miss, and they catch Arkansas on the rotation this year and face the Razorbacks twice.

Outside of that, notable games for each include both Alabama and Auburn facing a road trip against the defending national champion Florida Gators as well as a road game in Knoxville against Tennessee for Auburn.

Both get Kentucky at home as well as Texas and Texas A&M.

Both will also travel out to Oklahoma, but only Auburn has to travel to Missouri.

It won’t be long before basketball talk heats up, and the revealing of conference opponents in the best league in college hoops is certainly a huge start to that.