Report: Matchups For The 2026 ACC/SEC Challenge Are Set

by Staff Reporter

June 5, 20260 Comments

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College Basketball Insider Jon Rothstein of CBS Sports has reported that LSU will host Wake Forest in the ACC/SEC Challenge next season on Tuesday, Dec. 1st.

In last season's ACC/SEC Challenge, LSU beat Boston College 78-69 in overtime. Per LSU:

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The Tigers and Wake Forest are somewhat familiar with each other, having played three times in this decade. LSU leads the overall series, 4-2, with LSU on a three-game win streak, one of those under Coach Wade.

LSU defeated Wake Forest in the finals of the 2021 Emerald Coast Classic in Niceville, Florida, 75-61. One year later, the Tigers rallied from a 20-point deficit with Justice Hill getting a game-winning layup with two seconds remaining in a 72-70 victory in the Holiday Hoopsgiving event in Atlanta.

The last meeting came in 2023 in the fifth-place game of the Charleston Classic in Charleston, South Carolina, with LSU winning, 86-80, in overtime.

LSU is 2-1 in the SEC/ACC Challenge with wins in both 2024 and 2025. After tying at 7-7 in 2023 (LSU lost at Syracuse), the Tigers were part of a 14-2 SEC run in 20024 with a win over Florida State and last year, LSU provided one of the swing wins for the league in a 9-7 SEC decision with its 78-69 decision in overtime at Boston College.

Wake Forest is 1-2 in its three SEC/ACC Challenge contests. The Demon Deacons were 18-17 a season ago.

In its three conference challenge histories, beginning in 2007, against the ACC, Big 12 and Big East, LSU is a combined 6-6.

Tip time and television network will be announced in the near future.