Arizona will open a home-and-home series against Auburn, currently college basketball's top-ranked team, on Dec. 6 next season at McKale Center.
The Wildcats, who are also scheduled to play Alabama at Birmingham a week later, will travel to Auburn for a return game on a date that has not yet been determined but will probably be sometime during the 2026-27 season. Their game against Alabama is a return obligation after the Crimson Tide faced Arizona in Phoenix last season.
Auburn is 26-2 overall this season and leads the Southeast Conference at 14-1. Arizona has lost the only two games it has played against Tigers, including a 73-57 game in the 2018-19 Maui Invitational and Auburn's 73-63 win in the first round of the 1986 NCAA Tournament.
Other than the Dec. 6 game with Auburn and the Dec. 13 game against Alabama, most of Arizona's nonconference schedule next season remains to be determined or announced.
The Wildcats may not participate in a conventional "multi-team event" next season, but are expected to play several of the neutral site games that are becoming more common in the NIL era. They may also have two extra games to fill if the Big 12 moves as expected from a 20-game conference schedule to 18 next season.
