Big 12/SEC Challenge Extended

NORMAN – The Big 12 and Southeastern conferences have announced an extension of their women's basketball challenge that will expand to 10 games in 2016 and 2017.

Every team from the Big 12 will participate while 10 teams from the SEC will take part in each season. The format features five home games on campus sites for each conference per year. Teams will not face the same opponent twice.

In 2016, games will be scheduled over the dates of Thursday-Sunday, December 1-4. Exact dates of matchups and television designation will be released when available.

“We are excited to see the Big 12/SEC Challenge expand to include all 10 of our institutions,” said Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby. “This gives each of our teams an opportunity for a quality non-conference opponent and provides marquee matchups between two of the nation's top conferences.”

The inaugural challenge was held in 2014 in Little Rock, Ark., and featured a contest between the Sooners and Arkansas and Texas squaring off against Texas A&M in Little Rock, Ark. The conferences split the Challenge with the two games decided by a total of nine points.

The 2015 version will be contested in Oklahoma City on Sunday, December 20, 2015, with the opponents reversed. Oklahoma will play Texas A&M while Texas entertains Arkansas.

Oklahoma's opponent in the 2016 version will be Kentucky while the Sooners will host Florida in 2017.

2016 SEC/Big 12 Women's Basketball Challenge Matchups
South Carolina at Texas
Baylor at Tennessee
Mississippi State at Iowa State
Kansas at Alabama
Auburn at K-State
Oklahoma at Kentucky
Georgia at Oklahoma State
TCU at Florida
Texas Tech at Arkansas
Mississippi at West Virginia

2017 Big 12/SEC Women's Basketball Challenge Matchups
Texas at Georgia
Kentucky at Baylor
Iowa State at Vanderbilt
Arkansas at Kansas
K-State at Missouri
Florida at Oklahoma
Oklahoma State at Mississippi State
Alabama at TCU
LSU at Texas Tech
West Virginia at Texas A&M

University of Oklahoma Athletics

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