Auburn basketball’s 2025-26 SEC opponents announced

The SEC was its best, maybe ever, last season, and Auburn emerged as the outright champion. What do the new-look Tigers have in store for an encore?

Auburn basketball got a better idea of what its conference schedule will look like Wednesday morning, when the SEC unveiled opponents and locations for each team’s 18 conference games.

Here are Auburn’s designations for next season, with the most notable change that Arkansas is now a home-and-home opponent, replacing Georgia. So that means, under the league’s new scheduling model, Alabama and Ole Miss will be the Tigers’ permanent home-and-home foes, with the third spot able to be rotated every year.

• HOME AND AWAY: Alabama, Ole Miss, Arkansas

• HOME ONLY: Kentucky, LSU, South Carolina, Texas, Texas A&M, Vanderbilt

• AWAY ONLY: Florida, Georgia, Mississippi State, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee

Next season will mark the first time since 2014 that Auburn will not play rival Georgia twice in a regular season.

Exact dates for each SEC game will be announced closer to the season; last year they were announced in August.

Auburn went 15-3 last season and won the league outright in a loaded SEC that earned a record 14 NCAA Tournament bids. The Tigers went on to their second Final Four under Bruce Pearl, then had to replace every scholarship player from the team, with the exception of point guard Tahaad Pettiford who opted to return from the NBA draft process.

Auburn added four players from the transfer portal — UCF forward Keyshawn Hall, Mississippi State big man KeShawn Murphy, Texas Tech guard Kevin Overton and Lincoln Memorial wing Elyjah Freeman — along with JUCO pickups Abdul Bashir, a guard, and Emeka Opurum, a center. Auburn also landed a commitment from Serbian forward Filip Jovic.

The Tigers bring in the nation’s No. 14-ranked freshman class with forward Sebastian Williams-Adams, point guard Kaden Magwood and shooting guard Simon Walker.