Florida Gators basketball’s 2014-15 schedule was officially announced on Friday when the Southeastern Conference released its full league schedule for next season.

The Gators will face at least four (but up to six) opponents who took part in the 2014 NCAA Tournament while participating in special non-conference events including the Battle 4 Atlantis tournament in Paradise Island, Bahamas, SEC/Big 12 Challenge and Orange Bowl Basketball Classic in Sunrise, Florida.

Florida will face Georgetown in its opening Battle 4 Atlantis game. Other potential opponents over the final two rounds include Butler, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, UAB and UCLA.

UF also takes on Kansas in an SEC/Big 12 Challenge rematch in Lawrence, Kansas. Last season, the Gators took down the Jayhawks 67-61 in Gainesville.

Florida meets Wake Forest in the Orange Bowl Basketball Classic and links up again with UConn in non-conference action for the third time in the last two seasons.

The Huskies were one of two teams to beat the Gators during the 2013-14 season, winning 65-64 on a buzzer beater in Stoors, Connecticut, on Dec. 2 and 63-53 during the Final Four in Arlington, Texas. This year, UConn travels to Gainesville.

In-state rivalry games at home against Miami (Nov. 17) and on the road at Florida State (Dec. 30) also highlight UF’s non-conference slate.

The Gators open their 18-game SEC schedule on the road at South Carolina before playing consecutive home games against Mississippi State and Auburn. Florida plays its permanent rival, Kentucky, twice this season but will also take on LSU, Ole Miss, Texas A&M and Vanderbilt in home-and-away games.

The Gators and Wildcats will meet twice on Saturday; the first game could wind up hosting ESPN College GameDay, while the second is the regular-season finale for both teams.



UF will be featured four times on ESPN‘s “Super Tuesday” schedule, hosting LSU on Jan. 20 at 7 p.m. but playing the other three games on the road with 9 p.m. tip-off times. Florida will travel to Alabama on Jan. 27, Vanderbilt on Feb. 3 and Missouri on Feb. 24.

Florida will play four SEC contests on CBS, at least 12 total games on ESPN networks, at least five total games on the new SEC Network and at least one game on FOX Sports Florida. Many times and network affiliations remain unannounced.

Every game on CBS will be live streamed through CBSSports.com and the CBS Sports mobile app. All ESPN network, SEC Network and FOX Sports Network games will be live streamed through WatchESPN.com and WatchESPN apps on mobile devices, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Chromecast, Roku and Xbox.

Below is the official 2014-15 schedule, as of press time:



Athlete Country Sport Will Claye USA Track & Field

Triple jump Kerron Clement USA Track & Field

400m hurdles Arman Hall USA Track & Field

4x400m relay Tony McQuay USA Track & Field

4x400m relay Christian Taylor USA Track & Field

Triple jump Andres Arroyo Puerto Rico Track & Field

800 meters Gen. LaCaze Australia Track & Field

3000m s

5000m Eddie Lovett U.S. V.I. Track & Field

110m hurdles Kemal Mesic Bosnia Track & Field

Shot put Shara Proctor Great Britain Track & Field

Long jump L. Williams-Mills Jamaica Track & Field

4x400m relay Stipe Zunic Croatia Track & Field

Shot put Elizabeth Beisel USA Swimming

400m IM

Caeleb Dressel USA Swimming

100m free

4x100m relay

4x100m medley Conor Dwyer USA Swimming

400m free

200m free

4x200m relay Ryan Lochte USA Swimming

200m IM

4x200m relay M. Costa-Schmid Spain Swimming

200m free

400m free

4x100m relay

4x200m relay Mitch D'Arrigo Italy Swimming

200m free

4x200m relay H. Luthersdottir Iceland Swimming

100m breast

200m breast Corey Main New Zealand Swimming

100m back

200m back Omar Pinzon Colombia Swimming

200m back S. Rousseau South Africa Swimming

400m IM

200m fly Solaeche-Gomez Spain Swimming

200m IM Jan Switkowski Poland Swimming

200m fly

200m free Rex Tullius U.S. V.I. Swimming

200m back Dan Wallace Great Britain Swimming

200m IM

4x200m relay Pawel Werner Poland Swimming

4x200m relay Kelly Murphy USA Volleyball Aury Cruz Puerto Rico Volleyball Sandra Gal Germany Golf

SCHEDULE NOTES

» The Gators will only play one in-state game outside of Gainesville when they travel to participate in the Orange Bowl Basketball Classic in Sunrise. This will be atoned for during the 2015-16 non-conference slate when UF will play all of its home games away from the Stephen C. O’Connell Center.

» Mitchell Wilbekin, the brother of former Gators point guard Scottie Wilbekin, will be a freshman at Wake Forest next season.

» Twelve teams each from the SEC and Big 12 will compete in the SEC/Big 12 Challenge from Dec. 3-6.