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Maui Invitational goes back to isle after fires UConn tops field

.Aug twenty, 2024, 01:14 PM ETLAHAINA, Hawai'i-- Two-time speaking up for nationwide champ UConn will highlight the Maui Invitational, which is going back to the Lahaina Civic Facility a year after disastrous wild fires compelled a transfer to Honolulu.The event, which will be played Nov. 25-27, introduced its own welcomed institutions as well as routine on Tuesday.The Huskies will take on Memphis on the opening day, followed through Colorado-Michigan State, Auburn-Iowa State and also Dayton-North Carolina.Editor's PicksTournament chairman Dave Odom called it some of the toughest fields in case's history. UConn is making its own 5th Maui appearance.Seven of the eight groups created the NCAA guys's basketball event in March. North Carolina and Iowa Condition reached the Sugary food 16. Fires up in Maui caused 102 deaths in August and also ravaged the town of Lahaina on Maui's northwest coast. In 2014's activity was played on the College of Hawai'i university in Honolulu, on the isle of Oahu. Purdue beat Marquette to succeed the 2023 label.