CLEVELAND – Kent State's initial matchups for the 2025-26 MAC-SBC Challenge were announced on Tuesday.
The men's basketball team will host Troy at the M.A.C. Center, while the women's basketball team travels to James Madison. Both games will be played on Monday, Nov. 3.
This is the third year of the challenge, which is a scheduling alliance between the Mid-American Conference (MAC) and Sun Belt Conference (SBC) in which each of the 13 participating teams from both leagues will play one home game and one away game against a team from the other league.
The second MAC-SBC Challenge contest for each team will take place in February, with the matchups based on real-time NET rankings and announced in January.