.Aug twenty, 2024, 01:14 PM ETLAHAINA, Hawai'i-- Two-time defending national champion UConn will highlight the Maui Invitational, which is actually coming back to the Lahaina Civic Center a year after disastrous wild fires forced a move to Honolulu.The competition, which will definitely be played Nov. 25-27, revealed its own invited universities as well as timetable on Tuesday.The Huskies will certainly tackle Memphis on the opening day, adhered to through Colorado-Michigan State, Auburn-Iowa State and also Dayton-North Carolina.Editor's PicksTournament leader Dave Odom called it some of the greatest areas in the unlikely event's history. UConn is actually making its fifth Maui appearance.Seven of the 8 crews made the NCAA men's basketball event in March. North Carolina as well as Iowa State hit the Sweet 16. Fires in Maui caused 102 fatalities in August and also ravaged the town of Lahaina on Maui's northwest shoreline. In 2014's activity was used the University of Hawai'i grounds in Honolulu, on the island of Oahu. Purdue beat Marquette to gain the 2023 title.