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Vanderbilt, Memphis announces home-and-home series in 2025-26

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Vanderbilt HC Mark Byington, Memphis HC Penny Hardaway
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Vanderbilt and Memphis, two of the top college programs in the state of Tennessee, recently renewed their series with a home-and-home earlier in the 2020s. They’ll now add another one to their upcoming schedules for 2025 and for 2026.

The Commodores and Tigers announced a home-and-home series against one another for the next two years. Vandy will play in FedEx Forum in a matchup this upcoming season on December 17th, 2025 with Memphis then returning to Memorial Gymnasium somewhere on their schedules in 2026.

Vanderbilt and Memphis have played one another in 15 games all-time, with the Commodores holding a one-game lead at 8-7. However, the Tigers have won each of the last four games played. That includes each of the past two matchups they had most recently in 2023, a 76-67 win to open their respective seasons, at Vanderbilt and 2024, a close victory at 77-75, at Memphis. All of the games in the series’ hsitory have been in a home-and-home setting with matchups in Nashville or Memphis.

The Commodores will be entering year two this season under Mark Byington, after going 20-13 (.606) overall and returning to the NCAA Tournament in his debut in Music City in ’24-’25. They’ll now have a new roster for next season after losing double-digit players, namely eight transfers out, while bringing in eleven, with eight players in to take their places in what’s the No. 8 portal class per On3.

The Tigers are then entering what’ll be year eight for Anfernee ‘Penny’ Hardaway. They’re coming off the best season of his tenure, and one of the best in school history, by going 29-6 (.829) overall, winning both conference titles in the ACC, and making the NCAA Tournament before being upset in the Round of 64. Their roster is then in a similar place from movement with seven transfers out but nine transfers in for the program.

The ’25-’26 schedules are now starting to come together for schools like these as we get to the Fourth of July. Vanderbilt now has this confirmed to add to a non-conference schedule that includes three games in the Battle 4 Atlantis in late November, SMU in the ACC/SEC Challenge on December 3rd, and a matchup at Wake Forest on December 21st. Memphis then adds this in their non-con to playing Purdue and one of either Texas Tech or Wake in the Baha Mar Championship in November.