Tournament field for Men’s, Women’s 2024 Cancun Challenge coming into focus

FORT COLLINS, CO – Tournament officials with the Cancun Challenge college basketball event are pleased to announce the 10 D-I women’s teams and seven of the eight men’s programs that will be attending in 2024.

The event takes place during Thanksgiving Week at the all-inclusive Hard Rock Hotel Riviera Maya. Powered by Triple Crown Sports, this is the 19th edition of the women’s event, with the men set to mark their 17th season (2020 event was played in Florida due to the Pandemic) – players and fans will be just walking distance from their rooms to the converted ballroom that hosts the competition.

The men’s tournament takes place Nov. 26-27, with the games of the Riviera Division set for broadcast on CBS Sports Network as FloHoops will broadcast games from the Mayan Division. The Mayan Division teams are Bethune-Cookman, Gardner-Webb, North Dakota and Southeastern Louisiana; making up the Riviera Division are LMU, Tulane, Wyoming and a team to be announced.

For the women’s event, set for Nov. 28-30 and streamed on FloHoops, the Mayan tournament will be a three-game round robin featuring Providence, San Diego State, VCU and Wisconsin. The Riviera tournament teams get two games apiece; set to take the court are BYU, Idaho State, Iowa, Rhode Island, Rice and Vermont.

“We are pleased to draw another intriguing mix of teams to the Cancun Challenge. These matchups are attention-getters, as we feature a competitive environment that teams love to see before the conference schedule begins,” said Sarah Molina, Cancun Challenge director.

More information, including schedules for the event, will continue to be released on the event website: Cancun Challenge

Fan packages are available; check out your options for a relaxing, secure warm-weather escape over Thanksgiving: Fan Packages - Hard Rock Hotel Riviera Maya - Cancun Challenge

About Triple Crown Sports

Based in Fort Collins, CO., Triple Crown Sports has been producing youth, high school and college events for more than 40 years. TCS runs both the preseason and postseason WNIT basketball events and produces the men’s and women’s DI Cancun Challenge tournaments in November. Triple Crown is also powering a “WNIT” concept events in D-I volleyball (NIVC), with that event debuting in 2017. Triple Crown’s PV College Challenge features more than 10 of the top DI college softball teams in the country each year in Puerto Vallarta, MX. Anchored by the 1,100-team Colorado 4th of July event, TC fastpitch tournaments draw the nation’s finest club programs, and hundreds of college coaches attend TCS events for recruiting purposes. TCS produces one of the largest youth baseball events in the world with the 700-team Omaha SlumpBuster during the College World Series. The Triple Crown Volleyball NIT has become the top-recruited club volleyball event in the country each February when 550 teams compete in Kansas City, MO.

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