ATHENS, Ga. — The Georgia Bulldogs’ schedule for the upcoming basketball season has been finalized and was released by ESPN on Tuesday. Georgia’s 18-game league slate includes five Saturday home dates and four weeknight outings at Stegeman Coliseum.

Georgia will begin conference play by hosting Auburn on Saturday, Jan. 3 at 1:00. The Bulldogs and Tigers will meet only once during the regular season for the first time since the 2013-14 season. The SEC’s new scheduling model calls for each team to have two permanent opponents and rotate a third home-and-home foe among the league’s other 15 members.

The Bulldogs will then venture their permanent foes for back-to-back road outings. Georgia will face Florida in Gainesville on Tuesday, Jan. 6 and South Carolina in Columbia on Saturday, Jan. 10. Georgia’s home dates against the Gators and Gamecocks are set for Wednesday, Feb. 11 and Saturday, Feb. 28, respectively.

Texas is the Bulldogs’ third two-time SEC foe. Dates with the Longhorns are set for Saturday, Jan. 24 in Austin and Saturday, Feb. 21 in Athens.

Georgia’s 18-game SEC slate includes 15 outings versus teams that earned bids to the 2025 NCAA Tournament. In addition to the five aforementioned games against Auburn, Florida and Texas, the Bulldogs will host Ole Miss on Wednesday, Jan. 14; Arkansas on Saturday, Jan. 17; Tennessee on Tuesday, Jan. 27; Texas A&M on Saturday, Jan. 31; and Alabama on Tuesday, March 3. Road games versus “March Madness” teams from last season include trips to Missouri on Tuesday, Jan. 20; Oklahoma on Saturday, Feb. 14; Kentucky on Wednesday, Jan. 25; Vanderbilt on Wednesday, Feb. 25; and Mississippi State on Saturday, March 7.

Twelve of Georgia’s SEC games will air on the SEC Network, while the remaining six will be televised on ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU or ESPNEWS.

Georgia is coming off its most successful season in a decade. The Bulldogs posted their second consecutive 20-win season en route to earning their first NCAA Tournament bid since 2015. Georgia has been predicted to secure a spot in “March Madness” again next spring, most recently as a No. 10 seed in the West Regional in the August 23 edition of Joe Lunardi’s Bracketology for ESPN.com.

Tickets for Georgia’s non-conference home games – including single game, flex plan and group packages – are set to go on sale in mid October here. This season, fans can purchase vouchers that can be exchanged for any non-conference home game here, while tickets remain. Vouchers are $8 each, with a minimum of 10 required to be purchased and exchanged through a fan’s online account. Vouchers cannot be redeemed at Stegeman Coliseum box office on game days.

In addition, the Bulldogs will host Troy in a preseason exhibition on Sunday, Oct. 26 at 2:00 p.m. Tickets for that game, which will feature general admission seating for $5, are on sale now here.