Defending SEC Champion Tennessee Announces 2024 Schedule

The following release information was issued by Tennessee and information and photo courtesy of Tennessee…

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Tennessee softball revealed its complete 2024 schedule, announcing its full non-conference slate after releasing its Southern Conference opponents in September.

The Lady Vols’ regular season schedule features 23 home games, 19 road games and 12 neutral-site contests. They will open their season on Thursday, Feb. 8 at UT-Arlington before playing a three-game series Feb. 9-11 at Baylor.

Tennessee plays at Kennesaw State on Feb. 14 before traveling to Clearwater, Florida, for the 2024 Shriners Children’s Clearwater Invitational (Feb. 16-18). UT will play Stanford, Texas, Georgia Tech, UCLA and Florida State while in Florida.

The Big Orange swaps the Gulf Coast for the West Coast the following week as it travels to Cathedral City, California, to participate in the 2024 Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic Feb. 23-25. Tennessee will play six games over three days against Loyola Marymount, Cal State Fullerton, Oregon State, UCF, Hawai’i and UCLA.

UT opens at home with the Tennessee Classic March 1-3, playing host to Brown, Longwood and Stetson. Following a Tuesday mid-week matchup at Clemson on March 5, the Lady Vols welcome Missouri State, Ohio State and South Dakota to Sherri Parker Lee Stadium for the Tennessee Invitational March 8-10.

Tennessee’s remaining non-conference slate includes a visit to Washington D.C. to face Howard on March 11, its annual trip to Columbia, Tennessee, for the Mid-State Classic against Memphis on April 2 and a home contest versus Belmont on April 23.

In conference play, UT is slated to host Missouri (March 15-17), Georgia (April 5-7), LSU (April 19-21) and Kentucky (May 3-5). Road series include trips to South Carolina (March 23-25), Auburn (March 29-31), Mississippi State (April 12-14) and Alabama (April 26-28).

Read more about this season’s SEC slate HERE.

The Lady Vols are scheduled to face 16 teams and play 33 games against opponents that advanced to the NCAA Tournament in 2023, including six super regional teams and three WCWS participants in Alabama, Florida State and Stanford.

Tennessee’s full schedule can be found HERE.

Dates and times are subject to change. All conference series other than Tennessee’s trip to South Carolina – set to be played Saturday-Monday – are currently scheduled to be played Friday-Sunday.

SUBSCRIBE

Check out our other EIS links: