Syracuse Travels To Tennessee For 2024 SEC/ACC Challenge – Syracuse University Athletics

Syracuse will play at Tennessee on Tuesday, December 3, in the 2024 SEC/ACC Challenge. The event features 15 contests between the two conferences.

The Syracuse-Tennessee Series:

• Tennessee owns a 4-3 advantage in the all-time series with Syracuse.
• The Volunteers won the most recent encounter, a 73-56 victory in the 2023 Maui Jim Maui Invitational.
• Syracuse three wins in the series came consecutively in a run that began with a 93-88 triumph in the 1977 NCAA Tournament.
• The two teams first met in the 1972 Volunteer Classic. Tennessee won, 87-83.

Syracuse

First-year coach Adrian Autry guided the Orange to a 20-12 record last winter, the program’s first 20-win, regular-season campaign since 2013-14. Syracuse also posted 11 ACC wins, the team’s best showing since its first season in the league (2013-14).

The Orange welcome back returning starters Chris Bell (12.0 ppg., 2.3 rpg.), a forward, and guard J.J. Starling (13.3 ppg., 3.2 rpg.).

Tennessee

The Volunteers were 27-9 and reached the NCAA Tournament’s Elite Eight last season. Tennessee was defeated by eventual NCAA runnerup Purdue. Veteran coach Rick Barnes enters his 38^th campaign as a head coach and ninth at Tennessee this fall.

Syracuse In The SEC/ACC Challenge

Syracuse defeated LSU, 80-57, in last year’s SEC/ACC Challenge contest at the JMA Wireless Dome.

2024 SEC/ACC Challenge Schedule

Dec. 3: 

Syracuse at Tennessee

South Carolina at Boston College

Cal at Missouri

Kentucky at Clemson

Florida State at LSU

Georgia Tech at Oklahoma

Ole Miss at Louisville

Arkansas at Miami

Notre Dame at Georgia

Wake Forest at Texas A&M

Dec.4:

Auburn at Duke

Texas at NC State

Alabama at North Carolina

Pitt at Mississippi State

Virginia at Florida

Vanderbilt at Virginia Tech