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Maui Invitational returns to isle after fires UConn covers field

.Aug twenty, 2024, 01:14 PM ETLAHAINA, Hawai'i-- Two-time defending nationwide champion UConn will certainly highlight the Maui Invitational, which is going back to the Lahaina Civic Center a year after disastrous wild fires compelled a transfer to Honolulu.The competition, which will be actually played Nov. 25-27, introduced its own welcomed institutions as well as timetable on Tuesday.The Huskies will definitely tackle Memphis on the opening time, complied with by Colorado-Michigan Condition, Auburn-Iowa State as well as Dayton-North Carolina.Editor's PicksTournament chairman Dave Odom called it among the best fields in the unlikely event's record. UConn is creating its fifth Maui appearance.Seven of the 8 teams brought in the NCAA males's baseball tournament in March. North Carolina and Iowa State got to the Sweet 16. Fires up in Maui resulted in 102 fatalities in August as well as devastated the community of Lahaina on Maui's northwest shore. In 2015's activity was actually played on the University of Hawai'i university in Honolulu, on the island of Oahu. Purdue defeated Marquette to succeed the 2023 title.