Report: Texas men’s basketball to face UConn in home-and-home series starting next season

After playing in the World’s Most Famous Arena last season, Texas men’s basketball and UConn are bringing the action to their home crowds in a home-and-home series beginning next season, according to a report from CBS Sports’ Jon Rothstein.

The teams will first play at the Moody Center during the 2024-25 season, and then will move to Storrs, Conn., the following season. Times and dates are not yet known, as is a timetable for an official announcement of the series from the teams.

When the programs met at Madison Square Garden in November, then-No. 15 Texas fell 81-71 to the fifth-ranked defending national champions. Since then, the Huskies have become back-to-back champions and will certainly present a tough obstacle again next season. The series shows a continued commitment from Longhorns head coach Rodney Terry to schedule a tough non-conference schedule, as he enters his third season at the helm and the team’s first as a member of the SEC.

Marquee wins during the non-conference slate could help Texas improve on its No. 7 seed and second-round exit from this year’s March Madness tournament. The Longhorns went 21-13 overall and 9-9 in conference this past season, and finished just outside the final AP poll.

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