NASSAU, The Bahamas – The Baha Mar resort will serve as a stunning backdrop when four ranked women’s basketball teams in Talia Goodman’s Top 25 for On3 visit the Bahamas during Thanksgiving Week to compete in a pair of four-team bracketed tournaments Monday, Nov. 25 and Wednesday, Nov. 27 at the Baha Mar Convention, Arts & Entertainment Center. Veteran sports promoter bdG Sports announced the field Tuesday.
The Baha Mar Hoops Pink Flamingo Championship tips off play each day, featuring No. 7 LSU and No. 9 NC State along with Washington and Southern. NC State will take on Southern beginning at 11 a.m. ET on Nov. 25 followed by LSU matching up against Washington at 1:30 p.m. The consolation game will start at 11 a.m. on Nov. 27 with the championship game to begin at 1:30 p.m.
Action in the Continental Tire Baha Mar Women’s Championship gets underway each evening and includes No. 3 UConn, No. 24 Ole Miss, mentored by Bahamian National Team head coach Yolett McPhee-McCuin, as well as Oregon State and Boston College.
Ole Miss will battle Boston College on Nov. 25 at 5 p.m. followed by UConn against Oregon State at 7:30 p.m. The consolation game will start 5 p.m. on Nov. 27 with the championship game set to begin at 7:30 p.m.
All games will be streamed live on FloHoops.
Six of the eight teams competing in the Bahamas this November advanced to postseason play a year ago, highlighted by NCAA Final Four appearances by UConn and NC State and NCAA Tournament Elite Eight showings by LSU and Oregon State.
Some of the sport’s top coaches will be coming to Baha Mar with a combined 4,000 career wins, 30 NCAA Final Four appearances and 15 National Championships between the eight teams. UConn’s Geno Auriemma enters his 40th season as a head coach in 2024-25. Among his numerous career accomplishments, Auriemma has guided the Huskies to 11 NCAA national titles, 23 NCAA Final Four appearances and six perfect seasons. LSU’s Kim Mulkey has led the Tigers to back-to-back 30-win campaigns in three seasons in the Bayou, including the 2023 NCAA national crown. Prior to her return to Louisiana, Mulkey directed Baylor to three national titles among 19 NCAA Tournament appearances in 21 seasons.
“The top brands in college basketball assembling at the beautiful Baha Mar resort this November will bring a level of competition and entertainment that is elite,” national TV analyst Debbie Antonelli said.
“It’s a guard dominated field this season with some of the best players in the nation,” Antonelli added. “NC State returns top guards Aziaha James and Saniya Rivers on the perimeter from their Final Four appearance a year ago. National Player of the Year candidate Paige Bueckers, along with Azzi Fudd headline for the UConn Huskies. LSU offers Flau’jae Johnson and Mikayla Williams as part of its marquee. And Bahamas native Yolett McPhee-McCuin brings her Ole Miss program back to Baha Mar with Madison Scott and KK Deans leading the charge.”
TICKETS AND VIP PACKAGES ON SALE NOW
Tickets and VIP packages are currently available for purchase at www.bahamarhoops.com. VIP package amenities include a minimum three-night stay at the Grand Hyatt Baha Mar, two premium tickets to all games of the event, two tickets to the event’s VIP reception (Nov. 26) with dinner and open bar included, round-trip ground transportation from the airport and resort, two daily breakfast vouchers, welcome gifts and personal concierge service. (Airfare not included in the packages. A passport is required to enter the Bahamas.)
MORE THAN BASKETBALL AWAITS AT THE BEAUTIFUL BAHA MAR RESORT
The remarkable Baha Mar resort, anchored by Grand Hyatt and featuring SLS Baha Mar and Rosewood Baha Mar, is situated on 1,000 acres overlooking Nassau’s famous turquoise ocean waters. The destination resort boasts more than 2,300 rooms, the largest casino in the Caribbean, a $200 million luxury water park, an 18-hole Jack Nicklaus Signature Golf Course, the Caribbean’s first and only flagship ESPA Spa and a collection of more than 45 restaurants and lounges.
ABOUT BAHA MAR HOOPS
The Baha Mar resort welcomes 18 men’s and women’s teams this November as part of Baha Mar Hoops, an 11-day, 21-game showcase considered the largest regular-season event in the sport of college basketball.
Festivities begin with the Continental Tire Baha Mar Men’s Championship (Nov. 21-22) boasting one of its bests fields this season with St. John’s, Baylor, Tennessee and Virginia.
The Continental Tire Baha Mar Women’s Championship and the Baha Mar Hoops Pink Flamingo Championship (both Nov. 25 and Nov. 27) include UConn, LSU, NC State and Ole Miss among the two events.
The Baha Mar Hoops Nassau Championship includes six mid-major men’s programs playing a trio of games each day, Nov. 29 through Dec. 1.
Baha Mar Hoops also holds a summer league that offers NCAA teams exhibition games against international competition as part of a foreign tour.
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