Texas women’s basketball now has its full 2026-27 path laid out, and the slate is loaded from top to bottom.
The Longhorns announced the complete schedule today, and it comes with a heavy dose of heavyweight matchups. Texas’ non-conference list includes five teams that finished in the top 25 of the 2025-26 season, and the full schedule features 12 ranked opponents from that same final AP poll. Six of those 12 were top-10 teams.
The headliners are impossible to miss: No. 1 UCLA, No.
2 South Carolina, No. 5 Duke, No.
6 TCU, No. 8 LSU, No.
10 Vanderbilt, No. 11 Louisville, No.
12 Oklahoma, No. 14 Kentucky, No.
17 Ohio State, No. 21 Ole Miss and No.
24 Alabama.
Texas will open the year at home against Fairleigh Dickinson on Wednesday, Nov. 4, and the Longhorns will spend their first four games on their own floor. The home schedule gets an early jolt with Louisville visiting Moody Center on Dec. 2 for the SEC/ACC Challenge.
There’s also a pair of games for Texas in Fort Worth at Dickies Arena as part of the Lone Star Series. The Longhorns will face Ohio State on Nov. 22 and TCU on Dec.
- Then comes another marquee trip, this time back to Las Vegas for the Players Era Showcase on Dec. 19-20, where Texas will meet Duke and UCLA.
SEC play begins on Dec. 31 against Georgia, and the conference home opener follows on Sunday, Jan. 3 against South Carolina. Other SEC home dates on the schedule include Tennessee on Jan.
7, Alabama on Jan. 14, Vanderbilt on Jan.
17, Missouri on Jan. 28, Arkansas on Feb.
8, Texas A&M on Feb. 14 and Florida on Feb. 21.
Before the conference grind begins, Texas also has a set of exhibition games lined up: at UConn on Oct. 19, vs. UCLA in Cedar Park on Oct. 25, and at Moody Center against Eastern New Mexico on Oct. 29.
The postseason is set as well, with the SEC Tournament scheduled for March 3-7 in Greenville, S.C., and the NCAA Tournament beginning March 19.
Interest around the program is already high. A record 7,100 season tickets have been sold, with limited quantities still available.
The schedule arrives after a banner 2025-26 campaign for Texas. The Longhorns reached the Final Four for a second straight season for the first time since 1987, won the 2026 SEC Tournament Championship, earned a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament for the third straight year and finished 35-4. Texas also posted a nation-leading 16 wins against ranked opponents, including four against top-five teams and six against top-10 teams.
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