BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The Southeastern Conference officially released its 2025 women’s basketball conference schedule, maintaining its long-standing 16-game format, which includes eight home and eight away contests, and a rotating opponent played as a home-and-home series for each school .
Conference play is slated to begin Thursday, January 2, 2025, and continue through Sunday, March 2, wrapping up just prior to the SEC Tournament in Greenville, South Carolina . As in prior seasons, the year’s schedule features one rotating opponent facing each team twice, while the rest of the calendar consists of single matchups. In 2025, LSU serves as Tennessee’s rotating opponent, while Missouri fills that role for other programs .
Across the SEC, marquee matchups are peppered throughout the season. For Tennessee, the Lady Vols will welcome several top-ranked teams—including No. 1 South Carolina, No. 7 LSU, No. 13 Oklahoma, No. 21 Alabama, and No. 23 Ole Miss—to the Food City Center. Meanwhile, they travel to defend against Texas, LSU, Florida, Kentucky, and more in high-impact road games . Alabama opens conference play at home against Florida on January 2, followed by Missouri on January 5, and then hosting defending national champion South Carolina on January 16 .
The rotating opponent framework ensures balanced competition: each team has at least one back-and-forth series while facing most rivals just once. Overall, each SEC squad will play 14 single-round games and one rotating team twice, preserving the 16-game structure that the league has used for 17 consecutive seasons .
Television and tip-off times are pending release. However, the SEC Network and ESPN platforms are expected to carry extensive coverage throughout the conference slate, similar to previous seasons when the SEC presented a jam‑packed broadcast schedule, often featuring more than 70 televised matchups .
The regular season culminates with the highly anticipated SEC Women’s Basketball Tournament, set at the Bon Secours Wellness Arena in Greenville, S.C., running March 5–9. All 16 conference teams will compete for the tournament title and an automatic berth to the NCAA Tournament .
With a loaded league including powerhouse programs like South Carolina, LSU, Texas, Kentucky, and others, this 2025 schedule promises early-season showdowns, rivalry renewals, and high-stakes road tests. Fans across the SEC can expect a season full of exciting matchups, balanced home-and-away rivalries, and compelling television coverage as the conference continues its tradition of elite women’s basketball competition.
