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Cancun Challenge Graphic To Announce Participation In 2024 Tournament

Women's Hoops To Compete In 2024 Cancun Challenge

7/11/2024 12:05:00 PM | Women's Basketball

The event will be held Nov. 28-30 at the Hard Rock Hotel Riviera Maya.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Triple Crown Sports announced its field for the 2024 Cancun Challenge on Thursday, July 11. Providence College women's basketball is among the list of participants for this year's event, which will feature 10 NCAA Division I women's teams and eight men's programs.
 
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. Players and fans will be just walking distance from their rooms to the converted ballroom that hosts the competition.
 
For the women's event (Nov. 28-30), the Mayan Division will be a three-game round robin featuring Providence College, San Diego State, VCU and Wisconsin. The Riviera Division will play two games each and is comprised of BYU, Idaho State, Iowa, Rhode Island, Rice and Vermont. All games in the Mayan Division and the Riviera Division will be streamed on FloSports.
 
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 Loyola Marymount (Calif.), Tulane, Wyoming and a team to be announced.
 
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.
 
 
- GO FRIARS! -
 
 
 
 
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