| US LBM Coast-to-Coast Challenge | |
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| Sport | College basketball |
| Conference | |
| Number of teams |
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| Current stadium | Dickies Arena |
| Current location | Fort Worth, TX |
| Played | 2021–present |
| Last contest | 2025 |
| Most championships | TCU, Texas, Texas Tech (2; Men's) Texas (2; Women's) |
| TV partner(s) | ABC (2021) ESPN (2021-22) ESPN2 (2022, 2024) ESPNU (2023-present) ESPN+ (2023) |
| Sponsors | |
| MGM Resorts International (2021) US LBM (2022–present) | |
| Host stadiums | |
| T-Mobile Arena (2021) American Airlines Center (2022) Dickies Arena (2023–present) | |
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The Coast-to-Coast Challenge (currently known as the US LBM Coast-to-Coast Challenge for sponsorship reasons and formerly known as the Pac-12 Coast-to-Coast Challenge) is an annual set of basketball games played in a neutral stadium. The Challenge was set to launch in 2020, [1] but was postponed a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Challenge launched as a small-scale spiritual successor to the Big 12/Pac-10 Hardwood Series, which ran from 2007 to 2010. As such, it was originally contested by both men's and women's teams of the Pac-12 and Big 12 conferences, but in 2023 was open to men's basketball teams of all conferences, with the Pac-12 and Big 12 as the main conferences represented. [2] As a result of the 2021–2024 NCAA conference realignment, the Challenge no longer featured Pac-12 teams, and instead became a small-scale spiritual successor to the Big 12/SEC Challenge in 2024. [3] Women's basketball returned in 2024 under the name "USLBM Coast to Coast Challenge featuring the Hoopfest Women’s Basketball Classic". [4]
Every match-up within the Challenge has featured a team from Texas.
| Date [5] | Time | Pac-12 team | Big 12 team | Score | Location | Television | Attendance |
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| Dec 19 | 12:00 p.m. | Stanford | #17 Texas | 60–53 | T-Mobile Arena • Paradise, Nevada | ABC | 1600 |
| WINNER IS IN BOLD. Game Time in Pacific Time. | |||||||
| Date [6] | Time | Pac-12 team | Big 12 team | Score | Location | Television | Attendance |
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| Dec 18 | 12:00 p.m. | Stanford | #7 Texas | 72–62 | American Airlines Center • Dallas, Texas | ESPN | 4700 |
| 9:00 p.m. | Washington State | #11 Baylor | 65–59 | ESPN2 | 4200 | ||
| WINNERS ARE IN BOLD. Game Time in Central Time. | |||||||
| Date [7] | Time | Pac-12/SEC/MW team | Big 12/WAC team | Score | Location | Television | Attendance |
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| Dec 16 | 4:00 p.m. | Air Force | UT Arlington | 76–73 | Dickies Arena • Fort Worth, Texas | ESPN+ | 3,752 |
| 6:30 p.m. | Vanderbilt | Texas Tech | 76–54 | 7,219 | |||
| 9:00 p.m. | Arizona State | TCU | 79–59 | ESPNU | 4,890 | ||
| WINNERS ARE IN BOLD. Game Time in Central Time. | |||||||
| Date [8] | Time | SEC team | Big 12 team | Score | Location | Television | Attendance |
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| Dec 8 | 11:30 a.m. | Vanderbilt | TCU | 83–74 | Dickies Arena • Fort Worth, Texas | ESPNU | |
| 2:00 p.m. | #22 Texas A&M | Texas Tech | 72–67 | ESPN2 | |||
| WINNERS ARE IN BOLD. Game Time in Central Time. | |||||||
| Date [9] | Time | SEC/AAC team | Big 12 team | Score | Location | Television | Attendance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 8 | 2:00 p.m. | LSU | #19 Texas Tech | 82–58 | Dickies Arena • Fort Worth, Texas | ESPN2 | |
| 4:30 p.m. | North Texas | TCU | 65–55 | ESPN+ | |||
| WINNERS ARE IN BOLD. Game Time in Central Time. | |||||||
| Date [10] | Time | Pac-12 team | Big 12 team | Score | Location | Television | Attendance |
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| Dec 19 | 2:30 p.m. | San Diego (WCC Team) | #11 Texas | 74–58 | T-Mobile Arena • Paradise, Nevada | ESPN2 | |
| WINNER IS IN BOLD. Game Times in Pacific Time. | |||||||
Originally, Arizona was to be the Pac-12 representative, but backed out due to COVID-19 protocols
| Date [11] | Time | Pac-12 team | Big 12 team | Score | Location | Television | Attendance |
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| Dec 18 | 2:30 p.m. | USC | Texas | 62–48 | American Airlines Center • Dallas, Texas | ESPN2 | 4,700 |
| 6:30 p.m. | #20 Arizona | #18 Baylor | 75–54 | ||||
| WINNERS ARE IN BOLD. Game Time in Central Time. | |||||||
| Date [12] | Time | SEC team | Big 12 team | Score | Location | Television | Attendance |
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| Dec 8 | 6:00 p.m. | #3 South Carolina | #9 TCU | 85–52 | Dickies Arena • Fort Worth, Texas | ESPN2 | 8,004 |
| WINNERS ARE IN BOLD. Game Time in Central Time. | |||||||