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Maui Invitational goes back to island after fires UConn tops field

.Aug twenty, 2024, 01:14 PM ETLAHAINA, Hawai'i-- Two-time speaking up for nationwide champ UConn are going to highlight the Maui Invitational, which is coming back to the Lahaina Civic Facility a year after catastrophic wild fires compelled a transfer to Honolulu.The tournament, which will be actually participated in Nov. 25-27, declared its own invited universities as well as schedule on Tuesday.The Huskies will handle Memphis on the position time, observed through Colorado-Michigan Condition, Auburn-Iowa Condition and also Dayton-North Carolina.Editor's PicksTournament chairman Dave Odom called it one of the toughest fields in the unlikely event's past history. UConn is creating its own 5th Maui appearance.Seven of the eight groups brought in the NCAA guys's basketball event in March. North Carolina and Iowa Condition got to the Sweet 16. Fires up in Maui led to 102 deaths in August as well as ruined the town of Lahaina on Maui's northwest shoreline. In 2013's occasion was actually used the College of Hawai'i university in Honolulu, on the isle of Oahu. Purdue defeated Marquette to succeed the 2023 label.