Georgia's SEC basketball opponents revealed

In addition to its permanent opponents, the Georgia men's basketball team will face LSU and Tennessee twice each during the 2017-18 season.

The SEC announced each team's conference opponents Thursday, with Georgia drawing the Tigers and Volunteers in this year's unbalanced schedule. This adds to Georgia playing its permanent opponents -- Auburn, Florida and South Carolina -- in home and away matchups.

A season ago, Georgia beat Tennessee during the regular season and in the SEC Tournament. The Bulldogs upended LSU in the two teams' only meeting last season. The Bulldogs defeated Auburn twice while dropping each game to South Carolina and Florida.

The Bulldogs will also draw home games against Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi and Texas A&M at home.

Road trips will be at Kentucky, Mississippi State, Missouri and Vanderbilt.

The full schedule including times, dates and television information is to be released at a later date.

Georgia non-conference schedule has yet to be finalized. On Tuesday, head coach Mark Fox said his program has come to terms with each non-conference slot but that two or three contracts have not been returned just yet.

"All contracts have been sent out and when they are returned, our schedule will be complete," Fox said.

Fox said this year's non-conference schedule won't be too different and that its RPI is roughly one or two points from last season's. In 2016-17, Georgia went 8-4 in non-conference games, with the slate garnering an RPI strength of schedule ranking of 21st in the country.

As of now, it is known that Georgia will play Kansas State in the Big 12/SEC Challenge, Marquette and Massachusetts on the road. Home games are scheduled against Georgia Tech and Oakland.

Georgia finished 19-15 overall last season and missed the NCAA Tournament for a second consecutive season. At the time, Fox said he may have to reconsider his scheduling approach since the selection committee may not have valued strength of schedule as strongly compared to previous years.

In the end, Fox felt a tough non-conference schedule will prepare his team for conference play.

"Playing tough non-conference schedules has allowed us to be prepared for SEC play," Fox said. "And that's important."

This story was originally published June 1, 2017 at 10:30 AM with the headline "Georgia's SEC basketball opponents revealed ."