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Maui Invitational comes back to isle after fires UConn tops area

.Aug 20, 2024, 01:14 PM ETLAHAINA, Hawai'i-- Two-time standing up for nationwide champion UConn are going to highlight the Maui Invitational, which is actually going back to the Lahaina Civic Center a year after catastrophic wild fires pushed a move to Honolulu.The event, which will definitely be actually played Nov. 25-27, revealed its own invited universities and also timetable on Tuesday.The Huskies are going to handle Memphis on the position time, followed by Colorado-Michigan State, Auburn-Iowa Condition and Dayton-North Carolina.Editor's PicksTournament leader Dave Odom called it among the greatest areas in case's background. UConn is actually creating its 5th Maui appearance.Seven of the eight crews created the NCAA males's basketball competition in March. North Carolina as well as Iowa Condition hit the Dessert 16. Fires in Maui triggered 102 deaths in August and devastated the city of Lahaina on Maui's northwest coast. In 2013's occasion was actually used the College of Hawai'i school in Honolulu, on the isle of Oahu. Purdue beat Marquette to win the 2023 label.