Texas men’s basketball will face three of last season’s Final Four teams after finding out its opponent in the SEC-ACC Challenge.
The Longhorns will play North Carolina State on Dec. 4 in Raleigh, N.C., as part of a busy nonconference schedule. Texas will also host two-time defending champion Connecticut, at a date yet to be determined, and will face Ohio State to open the season in Las Vegas. The Longhorns also know they will play in the 2024 Legends Classic at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., Nov. 21-22, along with Syracuse, Saint Joseph’s and Texas Tech. Semifinal pairings and television coverage of that event will be announced at a later date.
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Additionally, the 18-game conference schedule in the SEC will include a home game against Alabama, which joined North Carolina State as national semifinalists last season.
Texas and the Wolfpack will meet for the fifth time and the first since the 2011-12 season. The all-time series between the Longhorns and Wolfpack is tied at 2-2, and all four previous meetings have been at neutral sites.
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Texas completed the 2023-24 season with a 21-13 overall record and advanced to the round of 16 of the NCAA Tournament, where the Longhorns lost to Tennessee.
North Carolina State went just 17-14 in the regular season, but reeled off five straight wins to win the ACC Tournament before another four straight wins in the NCAA Tournament. The Wolfpack will lose stars DJ Burns and DJ Horne from the team and Didn’t appear in ESPN’s recently released annual preseason “way to early” poll.
Texas ranked one spot outside ESPN’s poll.
This article originally appeared in the Austin American-Statesman: Texas basketball will face North Carolina State in the SEC-ACC Challenge
