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Maui Invitational comes back to island after fires UConn covers industry

.Aug 20, 2024, 01:14 PM ETLAHAINA, Hawai'i-- Two-time standing up for national champion UConn will highlight the Maui Invitational, which is actually going back to the Lahaina Civic Center a year after deadly wild fires required a transfer to Honolulu.The competition, which will be participated in Nov. 25-27, introduced its own invited schools and timetable on Tuesday.The Huskies will definitely take on Memphis on the opening time, observed through Colorado-Michigan State, Auburn-Iowa Condition as well as Dayton-North Carolina.Editor's PicksTournament chairman Dave Odom called it one of the toughest fields in the event's background. UConn is actually making its own 5th Maui appearance.Seven of the 8 crews brought in the NCAA guys's baseball competition in March. North Carolina and Iowa State hit the Dessert 16. Fires up in Maui resulted in 102 deaths in August and ruined the city of Lahaina on Maui's northwest coastline. In 2013's occasion was actually used the University of Hawai'i grounds in Honolulu, on the isle of Oahu. Purdue beat Marquette to succeed the 2023 label.