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Maui Invitational goes back to isle after fires UConn covers industry

.Aug 20, 2024, 01:14 PM ETLAHAINA, Hawai'i-- Two-time defending national champ UConn will definitely highlight the Maui Invitational, which is coming back to the Lahaina Civic Center a year after deadly wildfires forced a move to Honolulu.The event, which will definitely be actually participated in Nov. 25-27, declared its own welcomed colleges and timetable on Tuesday.The Huskies will take on Memphis on the position day, observed through Colorado-Michigan Condition, Auburn-Iowa Condition and also Dayton-North Carolina.Editor's PicksTournament chairman Dave Odom named it one of the toughest areas in the event's record. UConn is actually creating its fifth Maui appearance.Seven of the 8 teams made the NCAA men's baseball competition in March. North Carolina as well as Iowa State arrived at the Sweet 16. Fires up in Maui caused 102 deaths in August and ruined the city of Lahaina on Maui's northwest shoreline. In 2013's celebration was used the College of Hawai'i campus in Honolulu, on the isle of Oahu. Purdue defeated Marquette to gain the 2023 headline.