Dores Chosen for Coretta Scott King Classic – Vanderbilt College Athletics – Official Athletics Website

NEWARK, N.J. – The Vanderbilt girls’s basketball staff will take part within the second version of the Coretta Scott King Classic on Jan. 19, because the Commodores are set to tackle Michigan on the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey.

The nationally televised occasion on FOX will spotlight girls’s faculty basketball whereas honoring the legacy and values of Coretta Scott King and the King household. The Commodores and the Wolverines will battle in a matchup between two groups that made final season’s NCAA Tournament. Tipoff is ready for 1:30 p.m. CT from the Prudential Center, dwelling of the NHL’s New Jersey Devils.

The Coretta Scott King Classic is not only a basketball occasion—it’s a motion that celebrates management, equality, schooling, and empowerment by sport. The day will embrace neighborhood activations, youth engagement programming, and extra, reflecting the enduring legacy of Mrs. King.

“It is an honor to be invited to participate in the Coretta Scott King Classic against Michigan this season,” stated Vanderbilt girls’s basketball head coach Shea Ralph. The alternative to honor Mrs. King’s legacy was one we couldn’t move up, since our student-athletes live beneficiaries of her advocacy. We really feel lucky to align our program with the work of your entire King household, to have fun Mrs. King’s conviction to create equality and empowerment for all of us, and to proceed the combat for gender fairness in sports activities.”

Tickets for the Coretta Scott King Classic are on sale now and will be bought by clicking the link here. For group alternatives and experiences for 10+ individuals, contact 973-757-6000 or e mail groupevents@prucenter.com. For Premium seating alternatives, go to prucenter.com/premium.

It would be the fifth all-time matchup between Vanderbilt and Michigan. The Commodores maintain a 3-1 benefit, although the Wolverines claimed the win within the final matchup with a 50-42 victory in Ann Arbor. The Coretta Scott King Classic is the second impartial website contest between the 2 faculties, as the primary got here on the Reebok Roundball Classic in Norfolk, Virginia, on Dec. 29, 1988, the place Vandy posted a 95-86 victory.

The Coretta Scott King Classic is the third main girls’s basketball occasion that options the Commodores throughout the 2025-26 season. Vanderbilt opens the marketing campaign in Paris, France, on Nov. 3 to tackle California as a part of the 2025 Oui-Play Paris. The Dores will even spend the Thanksgiving vacation within the Caribbean to take part within the U.S. Virgin Islands Paradise Jam on Nov. 27-29. Fans can click on the hyperlinks for fan packs to Oui-Play Paris and the U.S. Virgins Island Paradise Jam.

Season tickets for the 2025-26 Vanderbilt girls’s basketball marketing campaign at the moment are on sale. Fans can click the link here to buy season tickets.

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