Indiana’s men’s basketball team will play the Maui Invitational this year, it just won’t be in Hawaii.
Instead, the tournament will be in Ashville, N.C., where the eight teams, staff, officials and media will be kept in a bubble to limit contact outside the arena.
The tournament was originally scheduled for Nov. 23-25 at the Lahaina Civic Center, but now is expected to be played the following week on the U.S. mainland. The NCAA announced last week that Nov. 25 would be the earliest teams could play this season due to the coronavirus. That’s two weeks later than the original first contest date of Nov. 10.
Indiana will be joined in the field by Alabama, Davidson, North Carolina, Providence, Stanford, Texas and UNLV.
"Asheville's ability to host this top-level sporting event is a testament to state and local partnerships built on a track record of welcoming and supporting national, and international, competitive events to Buncombe County," said Demp Bradford, president of the Asheville Buncombe Regional Sports Commission.
No exhibition games will be played this season, and the NCAA has reduced the maximum number of games teams can play by four games.
