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Maui Invitational comes back to isle after fires UConn covers field

.Aug 20, 2024, 01:14 PM ETLAHAINA, Hawai'i-- Two-time defending national champion UConn will definitely highlight the Maui Invitational, which is actually returning to the Lahaina Civic Center a year after catastrophic wild fires obliged a move to Honolulu.The event, which are going to be played Nov. 25-27, declared its own invited schools and timetable on Tuesday.The Huskies will definitely take on Memphis on the opening time, followed through Colorado-Michigan State, Auburn-Iowa Condition and also Dayton-North Carolina.Editor's PicksTournament chairman Dave Odom named it one of the greatest areas in the unlikely event's past. UConn is actually creating its 5th Maui appearance.Seven of the 8 groups created the NCAA men's baseball competition in March. North Carolina and also Iowa State hit the Dessert 16. Fires in Maui brought about 102 fatalities in August and devastated the city of Lahaina on Maui's northwest shore. In 2014's occasion was actually used the College of Hawai'i university in Honolulu, on the island of Oahu. Purdue beat Marquette to gain the 2023 title.