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Maui Invitational comes back to isle after fires UConn covers industry

.Aug 20, 2024, 01:14 PM ETLAHAINA, Hawai'i-- Two-time speaking up for national champ UConn will certainly highlight the Maui Invitational, which is actually going back to the Lahaina Civic Center a year after fatal wildfires compelled a transfer to Honolulu.The event, which are going to be played Nov. 25-27, revealed its own welcomed schools and also timetable on Tuesday.The Huskies will certainly handle Memphis on the opening day, adhered to by Colorado-Michigan State, Auburn-Iowa Condition and Dayton-North Carolina.Editor's PicksTournament chairman Dave Odom called it one of the greatest fields in the unlikely event's history. UConn is actually creating its own fifth Maui appearance.Seven of the 8 staffs made the NCAA guys's baseball competition in March. North Carolina and also Iowa State hit the Dessert 16. Fires up in Maui caused 102 fatalities in August and devastated the community of Lahaina on Maui's northwest shoreline. In 2014's celebration was actually played on the University of Hawai'i grounds in Honolulu, on the isle of Oahu. Purdue defeated Marquette to win the 2023 title.