Thanksgiving college basketball tournaments yielded wild results
The GIST: Thanksgiving week tournaments took teams to tropical locations like the Bahamas and Maui, where the heat off the court produced even hotter results. Here’s what you need to know about the Feast Week action:
No. 3 Notre Dame women lose two straight: After upsetting then–No. 3 USC just over a week ago, the Fighting Irish faltered in the Cayman Islands Classic, losing to No. 17 TCU on Friday before falling to unranked Utah on Saturday, a game in which Notre Dame committed 22 turnovers. Yikes.
- As for the tourney champs TCU, senior Hailey Van Lith had 23 points, eight assists, and seven rebounds to help the Horned Frogs leap over South Florida in the championship game.
No. 2 UConn men finish last in Maui: Things went from bad to worse for the Huskies over the holiday as they lost to three unranked teams in the Maui Invitational, ultimately placing last in the famed tournament. The defending National Champions lost 99–97 to Memphis, 73–72 to Colorado, and 85–67 to Dayton. Island life is not for them, apparently.
- No. 4 Auburn had the opposite experience, saying “Aloha” to a tournament victory after winning a tight first-round battle against No. 5 Iowa State, followed by dubs over No. 12 North Carolina and unranked Memphis.
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