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Maui Invitational goes back to island after fires UConn covers field

.Aug 20, 2024, 01:14 PM ETLAHAINA, Hawai'i-- Two-time defending national champion UConn will highlight the Maui Invitational, which is actually going back to the Lahaina Civic Facility a year after disastrous wildfires pushed a move to Honolulu.The event, which will definitely be actually played Nov. 25-27, introduced its own welcomed schools as well as timetable on Tuesday.The Huskies will definitely take on Memphis on the position day, adhered to by Colorado-Michigan State, Auburn-Iowa State 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 making its own 5th Maui appearance.Seven of the eight crews created the NCAA guys's baseball event in March. North Carolina and also Iowa Condition got to the Dessert 16. Fires in Maui resulted in 102 deaths in August and ravaged the city of Lahaina on Maui's northwest coast. In 2014's activity was actually played on the University of Hawai'i school in Honolulu, on the island of Oahu. Purdue beat Marquette to gain the 2023 headline.