Syracuse will play at Tennessee on Tuesday, December 3, in the 2024 SEC/ACC Challenge. The event features 15 contests between the two conferences.
The Syracuse-Tennessee Series:
- Tennessee owns a 4-3 advantage in the all-time series with Syracuse.
- The Volunteers won the most recent encounter, a 73-56 victory in the 2023 Maui Jim Maui Invitational.
- Syracuse three wins in the series came consecutively in a run that began with a 93-88 triumph in the 1977 NCAA Tournament.
- The two teams first met in the 1972 Volunteer Classic. Tennessee won, 87-83.
Syracuse
First-year coach Adrian Autry guided the Orange to a 20-12 record last winter, the program’s first 20-win, regular-season campaign since 2013-14. Syracuse also posted 11 ACC wins, the team’s best showing since its first season in the league (2013-14).
The Orange welcome back returning starters Chris Bell (12.0 ppg., 2.3 rpg.), a forward, and guard J.J. Starling (13.3 ppg., 3.2 rpg.).
Tennessee
The Volunteers were 27-9 and reached the NCAA Tournament’s Elite Eight last season. Tennessee was defeated by eventual NCAA runnerup Purdue. Veteran coach Rick Barnes enters his 38th campaign as a head coach and ninth at Tennessee this fall.
Syracuse In The SEC/ACC Challenge
Syracuse defeated LSU, 80-57, in last year’s SEC/ACC Challenge contest at the JMA Wireless Dome.
2024 SEC/ACC Challenge Schedule
Dec. 3:
Syracuse at Tennessee
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
Wake Forest at Texas A&M
Dec.4:
Auburn at Duke
Texas at NC State
Alabama at North Carolina
Pitt at Mississippi State
Virginia at Florida
Vanderbilt at Virginia Tech