{"id":242599,"date":"2025-08-21T02:51:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T02:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/242599\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T02:51:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T02:51:12","slug":"tennessee-basketball-sells-out-season-tickets-for-third-straight-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/242599\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Basketball sells out season tickets for third straight year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tennessee Basketball<\/a> has sold out its allotment of 14,500 season tickets for a third straight season, the Vols announced on Wednesday<\/a>. It\u2019s the seventh straight full-capacity season with over 13,000 season tickets sold and the fourth straight with more than 14,000 sold.<\/p>\n

Tennessee is coming off back-to-back Elite Eight trips \u2014 after previously having just one Elite Eight in program history \u2014 and 57 total wins over the last two seasons.<\/p>\n

The Vols finished 30-7 last season, after a loss to Houston in the regional semifinal. They went 27-9 in 2023-24, including winning the SEC regular-season championship, before losing to Purdue in the Elite Eight.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tennessee\u2019s home exhibition game vs. Duke sold out<\/p>\n

Tennessee opens the new season on November 3 at home against Mercer, after hosting Duke in a sold-out exhibition game at Food City Center on October 26.<\/p>\n

The Duke exhibition game sold out just minutes after tickets went on sale to the general public last Friday. The game is scheduled for a 7 p.m. Eastern Time start, with TV information not yet announced.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After a four-game homestand \u2014 Mercer, Northern Kentucky (November 8), North Florida (November 12) and Rice (November 17) \u2014 Tennessee 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

The Vols host Gardner-Webb on December 21 and close the non-conference schedule at home 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

A closer look at Tennessee\u2019s SEC schedule<\/p>\n

Tennessee opens SEC play at Arkansas on January 3 and will host Texas on either January 6 or 7. The Vols go to Florida on January 10 and will play Texas A&M at home on either January 13 or 14.<\/p>\n

The bye week falls on January 20, with no midweek game, before a trip to Alabama on January 2. The Vols play at Georgia on either January 27 or 28 and the month closes with a home date against Auburn on January 31.<\/p>\n

In February Tennessee plays Ole Miss (February 3 or 4), at Kentucky (February 7), at Mississippi State (February 11), LSU (February 14), Oklahoma (February 17 or 18), at Vanderbilt (February 21), at Missouri (February 24) and Alabama (February 28).<\/p>\n

In March the Vols go to South Carolina (March 3 or 4), then close the regular-season schedule at home against Vanderbilt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tennessee Basketball has sold out its allotment of 14,500 season tickets for a third straight season, the Vols…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,217,231,772,1544,195],"class_list":{"0":"post-242599","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-college-basketball","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-basketball","12":"tag-ncaab","13":"tag-regwall"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115064490132880135","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242599","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=242599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}