Cancun Challenge | 7/20/2022 10:25:37 AM

FORT COLLINS, Colo. – As summertime workouts proceed and plans for the season take shape, one of the premier holiday NCAA women’s basketball tournaments has nailed down its schedule, as tournament officials have released the final details for the 2022 Women’s Cancun Challenge.  
 
Four teams make up the Mayan Division, with Florida State, Harvard, Oklahoma State and Purdue making the trip to the Hard Rock Hotel Riviera Maya over the Thanksgiving Day weekend – those teams play a three-game round-robin. Six teams will power the Riviera Division with Central Michigan, NC State, Northern Iowa, Tulane, Vanderbilt and West Virginia heading for Mexico for two games apiece.
 
Games are played in a modified ballroom at the Hard Rock Hotel Riviera Maya, with all the action in walking distance for fans and players from their rooms. Here’s the schedule (second team listed is designated home team):
 
(All times ET)
Thursday, Nov. 24
11 a.m. – Oklahoma State vs. Florida State
1:30 p.m. – Purdue vs. Harvard
4 p.m. – Vanderbilt vs. NC State
6:30 p.m. – West Virginia vs. Central Michigan
9 p.m. – Tulane vs. Northern Iowa
 
Friday, Nov. 25
11 a.m. – Harvard vs. Oklahoma State
1:30 p.m. – Florida State vs. Purdue
4 p.m. – NC State vs. West Virginia
6:30 p.m. – Northern Iowa vs. Vanderbilt
9 p.m. – Central Michigan vs. Tulane
 
Saturday, Nov. 26
11 a.m. – Harvard vs. Florida State
1:30 p.m. – Purdue vs. Oklahoma State
 
More information will be released on the event website: https://cancunchallenge.net/sports/wbball
 
Fan packages are available; check out your options for a relaxing, secure warm-weather escape over Thanksgiving weekend: 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 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 “WNIT” concept events in D-I softball (NISC) and volleyball (NIVC), with those two events 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 1,000-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 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.