Cancun Challenge | 2/5/2025 11:18:28 AM
Updated 8/5/25
FORT COLLINS, CO – Officials with the Women’s Cancun Challenge college basketball event have some early information to share on plans for 2025, which will be the 20th edition of this unique tournament that takes place in Mexico during Thanksgiving Week at the all-inclusive Hard Rock Hotel Riviera Maya.
Powered by Triple Crown Sports, this gathering of outstanding women’s basketball programs is widely appreciated for its competitive environment while also offering all involved a warm-weather escape ahead of the start of conference play. At the Hard Rock Hotel Riviera Maya, players and fans will be just walking distance from their rooms to the converted ballroom that hosts the competition.
For the women’s event, set for Nov. 27-29 and streamed on FloHoops, there are two separate groupings of teams. The Yucatan Tournament teams will play two games each – North Carolina State, Southern Miss, TCU, UAB and two more programs TBA. The Mayan tournament will be a three-game round robin featuring Columbia, North Carolina, Kansas State and South Dakota State
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 the postseason WNIT basketball event 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 670 teams compete in Kansas City, MO.