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Maui Invitational returns to island after fires UConn covers industry

.Aug 20, 2024, 01:14 PM ETLAHAINA, Hawai'i-- Two-time standing up for national champ UConn will definitely highlight the Maui Invitational, which is coming back to the Lahaina Civic Center a year after catastrophic wildfires required a relocate to Honolulu.The competition, which are going to be actually played Nov. 25-27, announced its invited schools as well as timetable on Tuesday.The Huskies are going to handle Memphis on the position day, observed through Colorado-Michigan Condition, Auburn-Iowa State and also Dayton-North Carolina.Editor's PicksTournament leader Dave Odom named it one of the greatest areas in the event's record. UConn is actually creating its own fifth Maui appearance.Seven of the eight staffs made the NCAA men's baseball tournament in March. North Carolina and Iowa Condition arrived at the Dessert 16. Fires up in Maui led to 102 deaths in August and ravaged the town of Lahaina on Maui's northwest shoreline. In 2015's event was actually used the University of Hawai'i campus in Honolulu, on the island of Oahu. Purdue beat Marquette to win the 2023 headline.