{"id":177356,"date":"2025-07-17T17:45:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T17:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/177356\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T17:45:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T17:45:13","slug":"tennessee-basketball-to-face-michigan-duke-in-exhibition-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/177356\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Basketball to face Michigan, Duke in exhibition games"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tennessee Basketball\u2019s<\/a> preseason schedule will be loaded. Sources told Volquest the Vols are working to finalize a road exhibition game at Michigan in October and will also host Duke on October 26 in a second exhibition at Food City Center. <\/p>\n

In January the NCAA eased rules for exhibition games, allowing for two to be played against any four-year schools<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tennessee lost 66-62 to Indiana in a preseason exhibition last October at Food City Center. The Vols went to Michigan State in October 2023 for a charity exhibition, winning 89-88, and beat Gonzaga in a charity exhibition in Frisco, Texas, in 2022.<\/p>\n

Tennessee has faced Duke 16 times and has an 8-8 record against the Blue Devils. The Vols won the most recent matchup 65-52 in the second round of the 2023 NCAA Tournament in Orlando.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Duke beat Tennessee 77-67 in the 2011 Maui Invitational and the Vols won a natural-site game in New Orleans 90-69 in December 1980. Tennessee hasn\u2019t hosted Duke since an 81-78 loss in December 1976.<\/p>\n

Tennessee is 5-7 in 12 meetings with Michigan and has lost the last four, including three straight losses in NCAA Tournament meetings (2011, 2014, 2022).<\/p>\n

Tennessee will reportedly open the season November 3 against Mercer. The Vols will face Rutgers, Houston and a third team to be determined in the Players Era tournament in Las Vegas November 24-27. <\/p>\n

December starts with a road game at Syracuse in the ACC-SEC Challenge on December 2. The Illinois series will continue with a game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville on December 6 and Louisville comes to Knoxville on December 16 to finish a two-year home-and-home.<\/p>\n

Tennessee finishing home-and-home with Louisville, Illinois series continues<\/p>\n

The Vols host Louisville on December 16, Gardner-Webb on December 21 and close the non-conference schedule against South Carolina State on December 30.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tennessee won 77-55 at Louisville last November in the first road game of the season and the start of the two-year home-and-home between the two programs. The Vols swept Illinois over the last two seasons and will face the Illini again in Chicago during the 2026-27 season. <\/p>\n

Syracuse has been on the schedule the last two seasons, with Tennessee winning in Hawaii during the Maui Invitational in November 2023 and again last December in the ACC-SEC Challenge game at Food City Center. <\/p>\n

SEC opponents set, schedule not yet announced<\/p>\n

Tennessee\u2019s SEC schedule has not yet been released, though opponents were announced in June. <\/p>\n

The Vols added a home-and-home series with Alabama, among other marquee matchups, and will also have their regular home-and-homes with Kentucky and Vanderbilt. The Alabama home-and-home replaced the Florida home-and-home from last season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Vols will host Auburn, LSU, Missouri, Oklahoma, Ole Miss, Texas and Texas A&M in Knoxville, after going on the road for those games lsat season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tennessee will play on the road at Arkansas, Florida, Georgia and South Carolina, after playing those opponents at home on the 2024-25 schedule.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tennessee Basketball\u2019s preseason schedule will be loaded. Sources told Volquest the Vols are working to finalize a road…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,195],"class_list":{"0":"post-177356","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-regwall"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114869824719763798","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}