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Maui Invitational returns to island after fires UConn covers area

.Aug twenty, 2024, 01:14 PM ETLAHAINA, Hawai'i-- Two-time speaking up for nationwide champion UConn will certainly highlight the Maui Invitational, which is returning to the Lahaina Civic Facility a year after catastrophic wild fires required a transfer to Honolulu.The competition, which will definitely be actually participated in Nov. 25-27, announced its own welcomed universities and also schedule on Tuesday.The Huskies will definitely take on Memphis on the opening time, followed through Colorado-Michigan State, Auburn-Iowa Condition as well as Dayton-North Carolina.Editor's PicksTournament chairman Dave Odom called it one of the strongest areas in the unlikely event's past. UConn is actually creating its fifth Maui appearance.Seven of the eight teams made the NCAA guys's basketball tournament in March. North Carolina and Iowa State got to the Sweet 16. Fires in Maui brought about 102 deaths in August and wrecked the town of Lahaina on Maui's northwest shore. In 2014's event was played on the College of Hawai'i campus in Honolulu, on the isle of Oahu. Purdue beat Marquette to win the 2023 title.