Tennessee Basketball has sold out its season-ticket allotment of 14,500 for a third straight season, the Vols announced on Wednesday.
Tennessee Basketball has sold out its allotment of 14,500 season tickets for a third straight season, the Vols announced on Wednesday. It’s the seventh straight full-capacity season with over 13,000 season tickets sold and the fourth straight with more than 14,000 sold.
Tennessee is coming off back-to-back Elite Eight trips — after previously having just one Elite Eight in program history — and 57 total wins over the last two seasons.
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.
Tennessee’s home exhibition game vs. Duke sold out
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.
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.
After a four-game homestand — Mercer, Northern Kentucky (November 8), North Florida (November 12) and Rice (November 17) — Tennessee will face Rutgers, Houston and a third team to be determined in the Players Era tournament in Las Vegas November 24-27.
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.
The Vols host Gardner-Webb on December 21 and close the non-conference schedule at home against South Carolina State on December 30.
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.
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.
A closer look at Tennessee’s SEC schedule
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.
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.
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).
In March the Vols go to South Carolina (March 3 or 4), then close the regular-season schedule at home against Vanderbilt.
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