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Kentucky viajará a Virginia el 2 de diciembre para enfrentarse a los Cavaliers en el desafío SEC/ACC, marcando el primer encuentro entre ambos programas desde 2002. Los Wildcats no juegan en Charlottesville desde la temporada 1965-66 y lideran la serie histórica 6-3 contra Virginia. Este será uno de tres enfrentamientos contra equipos de la ACC que tendrá Kentucky en 2026-27, incluyendo partidos contra Louisville y North Carolina.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. — The Kentucky men’s basketball program will travel to Virginia on Dec. 2 as part of the SEC/ACC Challenge, the leagues announced on June 5. A TV designation and tip time will be announced at a later date.
The matchup at John Paul Jones Arena marks the first time the programs will meet on the court since the 2002-03 season at the Maui Invitational, when Virginia snapped a six-game winning streak by the Wildcats with a 75-61 win. Kentucky has not played in Charlottesville since the 1965-66 season.
Kentucky leads the all-time series with the Cavaliers 6-3. The Wildcats have faced a different Atlantic Coast Conference program in each of the challenge’s four years, having previously hosted Miami, traveled to Clemson, and hosted North Carolina.
Virginia is coming off a successful debut season under first-year head coach Ryan Odom. The Cavaliers finished 30-6 and reached the second round of the NCAA Tournament after advancing to the ACC Tournament championship game. Thijs De Ridder, a 6-foot-9 sophomore, returns to headline Virginia’s roster, having averaged a team-high 15.6 points per game and a team-best 6.2 rebounds per game.
Odom’s 30 victories this year mark the most wins in program history for a first-year head coach, surpassing the previous record set by Jeff Jones in the 1990-91 campaign. Odom, who became the 13th head coach in the program’s history, spent two seasons at VCU from 2023-25, leading the Rams to a 52-21 record and an appearance in the 2025 NCAA Tournament.
With the road matchup against Virginia, Kentucky is now set to take on three ACC opponents in 2026-27, also hosting Louisville on Dec. 12 and playing North Carolina in the CBS Sports Classic on Dec. 19 in New York.
This article was generated by AI (claude-haiku-4-5-20251001) based on source material from UK Athletics, enriched with 3 web searches. The original source is available at https://ukathletics.com/news/2026/06/05/kentucky-will-travel-to-virginia-for-sec-acc-challenge/.
