{"id":298192,"date":"2026-06-06T06:31:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T06:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/298192\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T06:31:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T06:31:15","slug":"gator-womens-basketball-to-host-miami-for-in-state-sec-acc-challenge-matchup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/298192\/","title":{"rendered":"Gator women\u2019s basketball to host Miami for in-state SEC\/ACC Challenge matchup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; Florida will play host to Miami on Dec. 2 as part of the 2026 SEC-ACC Women\u2019s Basketball Challenge, setting up an in-state matchup in Gainesville.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">ESPN announced the pairings Friday for the fourth year of the event. The game will also mark a new chapter for Florida, with Tami Reiss set to coach the Gators for the first time this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The SEC has controlled the series so far, going 30-16 against the ACC overall, including a 23-9 mark over the past two seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Florida is 2-1 in its three previous Challenge games, beating Georgia Tech 68-58 on Nov. 29, 2023, and Clemson 77-64 on Dec. 5, 2024, before falling to Virginia Tech 68-64 on Dec. 3, 2025. Each of the Gators\u2019 first three Challenge matchups was played on the road, making this season\u2019s meeting with Miami their first at home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/newsletter\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to subscribe to our newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WCJB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; Florida will play host to Miami on Dec. 2 as part of the 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[29826,123,125,124,125494,125493],"class_list":["post-298192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-florida-womens-basketball","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miami-womens-basketball","tag-tami-reiss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}