AUBURN — The schedule for Auburn basketball‘s 2025-26 season, its first under new head coach Steven Pearl, got one step closer to its finalization Tuesday, Oct. 7, as the SEC announced tipoff times and TV designations for the league’s upcoming conference slate.
All 18 of the Tigers’ conference games will be televised on ESPN networks, according to a release, with against Tennessee on Jan. 31 slated to air on ESPN.
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The schedule features the first-ever Neville Arena meeting between Auburn and Texas on Jan. 28, and Auburn will play its first game against Oklahoma in Norman on Feb. 24. The program also has home-and-home series set with Alabama, Arkansas and Ole Miss for the upcoming campaign.
Auburn will be on SEC title under Pearl, who’s succeeding his father, Bruce Pearl, as the program’s head coach. In the elder Pearl’s final season, the Tigers went 32-6, winning the SEC with a 15-3 record en route to clinching the No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament.
The Tigers make good on their postseason status, beating Alabama State, Creighton, Michigan and Michigan State to head their second-ever Final Four, where they lost to eventual national champion Florida.
Here’s a full look at Auburn’s updated schedule.
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Auburn basketball’s 2025-26 schedule: Dates, tipoff times and more
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Oct. 15: vs.* Oklahoma State (exhibition) (7 p.m. CT)
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Oct. 30: vs.* Memphis (exhibition) (7:30 p.m. CT)
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Nov. 3: vs. Bethune-Cookman (TBA)
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Nov. 6: vs. Merrimack (TBA)
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Nov. 11: vs. Wofford (TBA)
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Nov. 16: vs.* Houston (TBA)
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Nov. 19: vs. Jackson State (TBA)
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Nov. 24: vs.* Oregon (7 p.m. CT)
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Nov. 25: vs.* Michigan (7:30 p.m. CT)
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Dec. 3: vs. NC State (8 p.m. CT)
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Dec. 13: vs.* Chattanooga (TBA)
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Dec. 20: at* Purdue (TBA)
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Dec. 29: vs. Queens (TBA)
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Jan. 3: at Georgia (Noon CT, SECN)
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Jan. 6: vs. Texas A&M (8 p.m. CT, SECN)
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Jan. 10: vs. Arkansas (5 p.m. CT, ESPN2)
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Jan. 14: at Missouri (6 p.m. CT, ESPN2/ESPNU)
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Jan. 17: vs. South Carolina (5 p.m. CT, SECN)
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Jan. 20: at Ole Miss (8 p.m. CT, ESPN2/ESPNU)
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Jan. 24: at Florida (3/3:30 p.m. CT, ESPN2)
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Jan. 28: vs. Texas (6 p.m. CT, ESPN2)
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Jan. 31: at Tennessee (7:30 p.m. CT, ESPN)
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Feb. 7: vs. Alabama (3/3:30 p.m. CT, ESPN2)
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Feb. 10: vs. Vanderbilt (6 p.m. CT, SECN)
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Feb. 14: at Arkansas (7:30 p.m. CT, ESPN2)
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Feb. 18: at Mississippi State (8 p.m. CT, ESPN2/ESPNU)
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Feb. 21: vs. Kentucky (7:30 p.m. CT, ESPN2)
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Feb. 24: at Oklahoma (8 p.m. CT, ESPN2/ESPNU)
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Feb. 28: vs. Ole Miss (7:30 p.m. CT, SECN)
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March 3: vs. LSU (9 p.m. CT, SECN)
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March 7: at Alabama (7:30 p.m. CT, ESPN2)
Asterisks denote neutral site contests.
Adam Cole is the Auburn athletics beat writer for the Montgomery Advertiser. He can be reached via email at acole@gannett.com or on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, @colereporter. To support Adam’s work, please subscribe to the Montgomery Advertiser.
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