SMU Adds SEC Showdown to Loaded 2026 Slate

DALLAS - SMU basketball just added some serious voltage to its 2026-27 schedule, and Moody Coliseum should be rocking because of it.

The Mustangs will host Oklahoma on Dec. 22 in Dallas, opening a home-and-home series that gives Andy Enfield’s program another high-profile nonconference test.

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The return trip is already set, too, with SMU scheduled to visit the Sooners at Lloyd Noble Center on Dec. 21, 2027.

That’s a bold scheduling swing for a program that’s clearly done acting like it’s just happy to be in the room.

SMU is entering Enfield’s third season with momentum, credibility and a roster rebuilt through one of the country’s best transfer hauls.

On3 ranks the Mustangs’ transfer class No. 9 nationally and third in the ACC, a sign that SMU isn’t easing into its new basketball world. It’s attacking it.

The Oklahoma matchup won’t stand alone. SMU will travel to DePaul on Dec. 5, then meet UNLV on Dec. 19 in the Hall of Fame Series Phoenix before coming home for the Sooners three days later.

That’s a nasty December stretch, and it should tell everyone plenty about where this team really stands before ACC play fully heats up.

The conference slate won’t be gentle, either. SMU gets Georgia Tech and Louisville twice, while Duke, Clemson, Pitt, Syracuse, Stanford, Cal and Wake Forest all come to Moody Coliseum. Road trips include North Carolina, Virginia, Notre Dame, Miami, NC State, Boston College and Virginia Tech.

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The Mustangs went 20-14 last season, reached their first NCAA Tournament since 2017 and posted two top-25 wins for the first time in six years.

They also finished top-30 nationally in scoring, assists, field-goal percentage and three-point shooting.

Now the schedule looks bigger, but so does the ambition.

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