{"id":716543,"date":"2026-06-05T08:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T08:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/716543\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T08:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T08:28:08","slug":"womens-basketball-to-host-wake-forest-for-sec-acc-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/716543\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s Basketball to Host Wake Forest for SEC\/ACC Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FAYETTEVILLE \u2013\u00a0The 2026 SEC\/ACC Women\u2019s Challenge matchups have been announced and Arkansas is tabbed to host Wake Forest on Thursday, Dec. 3.<\/p>\n<p>The Demon Deacons finished the 2025-26 campaign 14-18 (4-14 ACC) and earned a Women\u2019s NIT bid but lost in the first round to Maryland-Eastern Shore 59-48.<\/p>\n<p>Arkansas and Wake Forest have only met once on the hardwood, back in 2020 at the Gulf Coast Classic in Fort Myers, Fla. The Hogs won 98-82.<\/p>\n<p>Wake has only participated in one Challenge, the first edition in 2023, and hosted Texas A&amp;M but lost 81-57.<\/p>\n<p>Arkansas in the SEC\/ACC Challenge<br \/>Nov. 30, 2023 at No. 15 Florida State \u2013 W, 71-58<br \/>Dec. 5, 2024 vs. Boston College \u2013 W, 75-64<br \/>Dec. 4, 2025 at SMU \u2013 L, 78-63<br \/>Dec. 3, 2026 vs. Wake Forest<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Arkansas women\u2019s basketball, follow @RazorbackWBB on social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FAYETTEVILLE \u2013\u00a0The 2026 SEC\/ACC Women\u2019s Challenge matchups have been announced and Arkansas is tabbed to host Wake Forest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,43,85,63814],"class_list":["post-716543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-headlines","tag-sports","tag-women-s-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}