Texas announces complete 2025-26 non-conference basketball schedule

[Jeff Howe]

Eight games at Moody Center before SEC play, including the SEC/ACC Challenge against Virginia on Dec. 3.

Here's the full release from UT:

AUSTIN, Texas — The 2025-26 University of Texas Men’s Basketball non-conference schedule was released Thursday and features eight non-conference home games in the fourth season of Moody Center, including a marquee matchup against Virginia as part of the ACC/SEC Challenge. The slate also features a season-opening neutral-site contest against Duke in Charlotte, three games in Hawaii as part of the Southwest Maui Invitational, and a road game at UConn.

The Southeastern Conference schedule has not been finalized at this time, although the league previously announced opponents along with home and away designations for the upcoming conference slate. Tipoff times and the complete television schedule for the 2025-26 season will be announced when available.

The Longhorns open the regular season on Tuesday, Nov. 4 with a neutral-site contest in the Dick Vitale Invitational against Duke at Charlotte’s Spectrum Center. This will mark the sixth meeting between Texas and the Blue Devils and first since an overtime contest in the semifinals of the PK80 Championship in Portland, Ore., on Nov. 24, 2017.

Texas will then open a four-game homestand in Moody Center with its home opener against Lafayette on Saturday, Nov. 8. This will mark the first meeting in men’s basketball between the Longhorns and the Leopards. UT will host Fairleigh Dickinson on Wednesday, Nov. 12. The Longhorns registered a 63-59 win in Gregory Gym in the only previous matchup against the Knights on Dec. 20, 1975. Texas will then play Kansas City in Moody Center on Saturday, Nov. 15, marking the first matchup against the Roos in program history. The Longhorns will host Rider on Tuesday, Nov. 18, also marking the first time Texas has faced the Broncs in men’s basketball.

Texas heads to Hawaii on Nov. 24-26 (Monday-Wednesday) to play three contests in the prestigious Southwest Maui Invitational at the Lahaina Civic Center. This year’s eight-team tourney field also includes: Arizona State, Boise State, host Chaminade, NC State, Seton Hall, USC and Washington State. Pairings for the three-day event have not been announced.

The Longhorns return to Austin to host Virginia on Wednesday, Dec. 3 in the ACC/SEC Challenge. This will mark the first meeting in men’s basketball between Texas and the Cavaliers. Texas will host Southern on Monday, Dec. 8. The Longhorns recorded an 89-56 victory in the Frank Erwin Center in the only previous matchup against the Jaguars on Nov. 15, 2005.

Texas will travel to Hartford, Conn., on Friday, Dec. 12 to face perennial national power UConn at the XL Center. This marks the third consecutive season that the Longhorns and Huskies will meet on the court, and UConn holds an 8-3 advantage in the all-time series between the two schools. Texas will conclude its non-conference schedule with a pair of home games against Le Moyne on Tuesday, Dec. 16 and Maryland Eastern Shore on Monday, Dec. 22. This will mark the first matchups in men’s basketball against both the Dolphins and the Hawks.

Texas will begin Southeastern Conference play on Saturday, Jan. 3. The Longhorns will conclude SEC regular-season action on Saturday, March 7.

[closetojumping]

Does Maryland have some other shore that isn't eastern? That's a tiny state with damned near more colleges than land mass. 

The schedule looks fun overall, though.

[southpaw]

Duke may not play their home games there, but Charlotte is hardly a neutral site.

[Gerry Hamilton]

The 2025 Maui Invitational 

https://mauiinvitational.com/index.aspx

[Jeff Howe]

The non-conference opponents are good, just not a lot of meat on the bone unless you're planning on traveling.

[Sundancekid]

What a crappy non conference home schedule. Tickets are too expensive for this quality of competition. Do we still blame Rodney Terry for this? 

[Jeff Howe]

5 minutes ago, Sundancekid said:

What a crappy non conference home schedule. Tickets are too expensive for this quality of competition. Do we still blame Rodney Terry for this? 

Even the home conference schedule (Florida, Georgia, LSU, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas A&M and Vanderbilt), which I know Texas has no control over, is good, but I've seen better.

[CJ Vogel]

Maui isn't the same without Bill Walton.

[Jordan91]

1 hour ago, Jeff Howe said:

The non-conference opponents are good, just not a lot of meat on the bone unless you're planning on traveling.

I didn’t know Kansas City was a team. Just really poor non conference games at home. Yet I keep paying for it. 

[BobInHouston]

7 hours ago, Jordan91 said:

I didn’t know Kansas City was a team. Just really poor non conference games at home. Yet I keep paying for it. 

UMKC

[Robert Eberhardt]

This is such an insult to season ticket holders. What poor value for what we pay.

[harveycmd]

On 7/24/2025 at 12:41 PM, Gerry Hamilton said:

The 2025 Maui Invitational 

https://mauiinvitational.com/index.aspx

I know Ogden's visit is scheduled for the Ohio State weekend. Miller told Rothstein a couple of months ago that he's going to the Ohio State game. How does that work? Are they taking Bo Ogden to the Ohio State game?

[Gerry Hamilton]

8 hours ago, harveycmd said:

I know Ogden's visit is scheduled for the Ohio State weekend. Miller told Rothstein a couple of months ago that he's going to the Ohio State game. How does that work? Are they taking Bo Ogden to the Ohio State game?

No impact. Ogden has been around Miller more than any coach recruiting him. He’s around the program on a near daily basis

[Gerry Hamilton]

The home schedules are what college hoops is turning into with all the neutral site mini-tournaments or games

Looking at a few other schedules, pretty much the same at Florida, Duke, etc 

[Jordan91]

13 hours ago, Robert Eberhardt said:

This is such an insult to season ticket holders. What poor value for what we pay.

I will be there, but what about the fans that come after football? What are they coming to watch? Lower the ticket prices!

[Sundancekid]

At least when we watched Texas play crappy teams in the FEC you could get a seat for $5.

[MarkInAustin]

Upgraded easy games are available.  Princeton would be a lot more fun to watch than Fairleigh Dickinson.  St. Joseph's would be a better schedule fit than Lafayette.  These are more competitive mid majors, teams that have made the NCAA tournament more than once in mylifetime.  How about a real challenge here and there, say, Seton Hall over Rider?

 

Running up wins against teams ranked lower than 150 cannot be that worthy of a recommendation come tournament time, but more importantly, those games provide no actual sharpening of the team for conference play.

 

And paying to see them is painful.

[Gerry Hamilton]

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/45795533/100-days-2025-2026-mens-college-basketball-season-stories-players-games

[syracusehorn]

My wife went to LeMoyne. That will be interesting in the SyracuseHorn household.

 

[Fan of the Game]

22 hours ago, Gerry Hamilton said:

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/45795533/100-days-2025-2026-mens-college-basketball-season-stories-players-games

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