ATHENS, Ga. — The second iteration of the ACC-SEC challenge is upcoming and the Georgia basketball teams have their matchups.
On Wednesday evening, ESPN announced Georgia men’s basketball will face off against Notre Dame. Around the same time, the SEC announced the Georgia women’s basketball team will play Virginia Tech.
Both teams will be home and play at Stegeman Coliseum.
The men’s team will face off against the Fighting Irish on Tuesday, Dec. 3. It will be one of nine ACC-SEC games being played that day. The other six games will be played on Wednesday, Dec. 4.
The women’s team will play the Hokies on Dec. 4. It will be one of six games played that day. The other nine games of the challenge will be played on Thursday, Dec. 5.
Below are the full lists for all the ACC-SEC challenge matchups.
Men's basketball:
Tuesday, December 3rd
- South Carolina at Boston College
- Cal at Missouri
- Kentucky at Clemson
- Florida State at LSU
- Georgia Tech at Oklahoma
- Ole Miss at Louisville
- Arkansas at Miami
- Notre Dame at Georgia
- Syracuse at Tennessee
- Wake Forest at Texas A&M
Wednesday December 4th
- Auburn at Duke
- Texas at NC State
- Alabama at North Carolina
- Pittsburgh at Mississippi State
- Virginia at Florida
- Vanderbilt Virginia Tech
Women's basketball:
Wednesday, Dec. 4
- Florida State at Tennessee
- Virginia Tech at Georgia
- Mississippi State at Georgia Tech
- Oklahoma at Louisville
- Syracuse at Texas A&M
- Vanderbilt at Miami
Thursday, Dec. 5
- Alabama at Cal
- Boston College at Arkansas
- Auburn at Virginia
- Florida at Clemson
- Kentucky at North Carolina
- Stanford at LSU
- Ole Miss at NC State
- SMU at Missouri
- Duke at South Carolina
- Texas at Notre Dame
The Bulldogs last played the Fighting Irish in 2022, which was head coach Mike White’s first season at the helm and won 77-62. Georgia has won the past two matchups against Notre Dame, placing the series at two games apiece.
The Bulldogs defeated FSU 68-66 last year, which was the first year of the ACC-SEC challenge — which replaced the long-standing ACC-Big 10 challenge. White and the Bulldogs, which features returnees like Silas Demary Jr., Blue Cain and Dylan James alongside new additions like five-star Asa Newell, have an opportunity to remain undefeated in the series against the ACC.
This is the third game officially scheduled on the men’s team schedule next season and the first game scheduled at home. The Bulldogs will play Marquette and St. Johnson at the Atlantis Paradise Island Resort in The Bahamas on Nov. 23 and Nov. 24, respectively.
Notre Dame’s head coach Micah Shrewsberry will enter his second year as the team’s head coach after replacing longtime head coach Mike Brey. He went 12-20 in his first season and will face the Bulldogs for the first time in his career.
The women’s team will face a first-time head coach in Megan Duffy, who’s replacing another long-time head coach Kenny Brooks. He left to coach Kentucky’s women’s team. Duffy inherits a team that went 25-8 and went to the second round of the NCAA tournament last season.
Unlike Georgia's men’s team, the women lost its first ACC-SEC challenge matchup against Duke in a 72-65 overtime loss last season. Now, in head coach Katie Abrahamson-Henderson’s third year at the helm, the Bulldogs could make a big statement win against a Virginia Tech team that impressed in 2023.