STORRS – The UConn men's basketball team has announced a home-and-home series agreement with Texas, set to begin in the 2024-25 season. The Huskies will visit the Longhorns in Austin on Dec. 8, 2024 before the return game in Connecticut on Dec. 12, 2025.
Connecticut and Texas have met a total of 10 times in the past in an all-time series dating back to 1991. UConn leads the series, 7-3, which includes a top-15 victory in the 2023 Empire Classic title game at Madison Square Garden last season. In that 81-71 win, Alex Karaban scored 20 points while Samson Johnson had a career day with 15 points and eight rebounds to lead UConn to its first trophy of the historic 2023-24 campaign.
The Texas series will mark the fifth time the two programs have connected for a home-and-home, also meeting between 1991-93, 2000-01, 2010-2011 and 2014-2015. The Huskies are 3-1 in Austin all-time and 3-1 in Connecticut against the Longhorns. UConn's last visit to Texas came on Dec. 29, 2015, with Rodney Purvis leading four Huskies in double-figures in a 71-66 win.
While UConn will be without graduated All-American and El Paso-native Tristen Newton for its trip to Texas this season, there will be a Lone Star State representative in Husky blue in freshman Liam McNeeley. The Richardson-native hails from about 200 miles north of Austin.
UConn's non-conference schedule for the 2024-25 season now includes three games at the 2024 Maui Invitational (Auburn, Colorado, Dayton, Iowa State, Memphis, Michigan State, North Carolina) from Nov. 25-27, Baylor at home on Dec. 5, a road game at Texas on Dec. 8 and a clash with Gonzaga in New York on Dec. 14. The gauntlet could include as many as six games against teams in the 'way-too-early' preseason polls.
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