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Maui Invitational comes back to isle after fires UConn tops field

.Aug 20, 2024, 01:14 PM ETLAHAINA, Hawai'i-- Two-time defending nationwide champion UConn will certainly highlight the Maui Invitational, which is actually coming back to the Lahaina Civic Facility a year after disastrous wildfires required a transfer to Honolulu.The event, which will definitely be actually participated in Nov. 25-27, announced its invited schools as well as timetable on Tuesday.The Huskies will definitely take on Memphis on the opening time, complied with by Colorado-Michigan Condition, Auburn-Iowa State as well as Dayton-North Carolina.Editor's PicksTournament chairman Dave Odom named it among the greatest areas in the unlikely event's record. UConn is actually creating its own fifth Maui appearance.Seven of the eight crews created the NCAA men's basketball competition in March. North Carolina as well as Iowa Condition arrived at the Sweet 16. Fires in Maui brought about 102 deaths in August and also devastated the community of Lahaina on Maui's northwest coastline. In 2015's occasion was played on the College of Hawai'i school in Honolulu, on the isle of Oahu. Purdue defeated Marquette to win the 2023 label.