Three Tennessee basketball games are sold out, limited tickets available for two others

Tennessee basketball’s home games against Alabama on January 20, Texas A&M on January 24 and Kentucky on March 9 are all sold out, the Vols announced on Friday. Limited tickets remain for the Illinois game on December 9 and the Auburn game on February 28.

No. 10 Tennessee (4-3), after spending much of November on the road, are home for six of the next seven games on schedule, beginning with George Mason on Tuesday (6:30 p.m. Eastern Time, SEC Network+). 

The Vols lost 100-99 at No. 17 North Carolina on Wednesday in an ACC-SEC Challenge game at the Dean Smith Center in Chapel Hill. They lost back-to-back games last week to Purdue and Kansas, the top two teams in the Associated Press Top 25, in the Maui Invitational last week. 

Tennessee won at Wisconsin on November 10 in the other marquee road game last month. 

Tennessee basketball season tickets sold-out during preseason

The Vols announced on November 1 it had officially sold out the allotment of 14,500 season tickets at Thompson-Boling Arena this season.

It’s the seventh consecutive full-capacity season with more than 13,000 season tickets sold for men’s basketball. Last season the Vols averaged 18,781 fans at home games, which ranked fifth nationally. There were only eight schools that averaged more than 15,100 fans at home games. 

The Illinois game on December 9 is a Noon ET start on CBS. Tennessee hosts Georgia Southern on December 12 and play North Carolina State in a neutral-site game in San Antonio on December 16.

Tarleton State on December 21 is the final game before the Christmas break and Norfolk State on January 2 is the final non-conference game, with SEC play starting January 6 at home against Ole Miss.  

SEC play begins at home vs. Ole Miss on January 6

Florida (January 16), Alabama (January 20), Texas A&M (February 24), Auburn (February 28) and Kentucky, the regular-season finale on March 9. 

SEC play starts at home with Ole Miss on January 6. Other conference games include South Carolina (January 30), LSU (February 7) and Vanderbilt (February 17).

Road games in SEC play are at Mississippi State (January 10), at Vanderbilt (January 27), at Kentucky (February 3), at Texas A&M (February 10), at Arkansas (February 14), at Missouri (February 20), at Alabama (March 2) and at South Carolina (March 6).

Tennessee will host Wofford on November 14, before playing three games in the Maui Invitation November 20-22.

The Vols go to North Carolina on November 29, the first game back after returning from Maui. They host George Mason on December 5, Illinois on December 9 and Georgia Southern on December 12. 

Up Next: No. 10 Tennessee vs. George Mason, Tuesday, 6:30 p.m. ET, SEC Network+

The neutral-site game against North Carolina State is set for December 16 and a home date with Tarleton State is the final game before the Christmas break, scheduled for December 21. Tennessee hosts Norfolk State on January 2 in the final non-conference game on the schedule.

The game at Wisconsin is the second in a home-and-home series that started at Thompson-Boling Arena in December 2019. The Vols were scheduled to play at Wisconsin in December 2020 before the COVID pandemic altered the 2020-21 basketball season.

Wisconsin won 68-48 at Thompson-Boling Arena on December 28, 2019. Wisconsin finished 20-15 last season, going 9-11 in Big Ten play before making a run to the NIT championship game, where the Badgers lost to North Texas.

Tennessee announced in December that a home-and-home with Illinois had been scheduled, starting in Knoxville this season. The Vols make the return trip to Illinois on December 14, 2024.