BYU-Hawaii’s Caeleb Roney (23) goes up for a shot in opposition to a Level Loma defender in the course of the college’s last males’s basketball sport on Feb. 20, 2017. BYU-Hawaii will host a Division I nonconference basketball match throughout Thanksgiving weekend, in response to CBS Sports activities’ Jon Rothstein. BYU-Hawaii Athletics
Intercollegiate athletic competitors ended at BYU-Hawaii again in 2017, however the college might quickly have Division I basketball headed to its campus.
CBS Sports activities’ Jon Rothstein reported Monday that BYU-Hawaii will host a Division I nonconference basketball match, or multiteam occasion, throughout Thanksgiving weekend in Laie, Hawaii, known as the Northshore Basic.
Sources: A brand new MTE --- the Northshore Basic --- can be launched throughout Thanksigiving Weekend on the campus of BYU-Hawaii.
— Jon Rothstein (@JonRothstein) June 6, 2022
Hawaii can be a part of the inaugural subject.
Whereas there are few particulars recognized in regards to the new occasion, Rothstein reported Hawaii will play within the inaugural Northshore Basic.
What's an MTE?
Every year, Division I basketball groups are permitted to play in a single multiteam occasion in the course of the nonconference portion of their schedule.
These sorts of early season tournaments enable groups to bolster their NCAA Match resumes as they play in multiday occasions.
“If you happen to’re a university basketball fan, it's best to comply with MTEs carefully, as a result of they typically imply daytime basketball across the holidays and these occasions typically present a number of high-level matchups in consecutive days for the groups concerned,” NCAA.com’s Andy Wittry wrote final November.
Might a Utah workforce play within the Northshore Basic?
The Beehive State’s prime Division I faculties — like most groups across the nation, in response to Running a blog the Bracket — have already locked of their MTE commitments this season, regardless that BYU performed a match within the Hawaiian islands final yr, and Utah State is headed to Hawaii throughout Christmas this season.
This yr, BYU can be taking part in within the Battle 4 Atlantis match within the Bahamas throughout Thanksgiving week, with defending nationwide champion Kansas among the many eight high-profile groups taking part in.
Utah will play within the Fort Myers Tip-Off in Florida throughout Thanksgiving week, whereas Utah State is headed to the Diamond Head Basic in Honolulu, Hawaii, throughout Christmas week.
Utah Valley is headed to the Jamaica Basic, in response to Running a blog the Bracket, whereas Weber State will play in a brand new match in Las Vegas known as the Vegas Championship, in response to the Normal-Examiner’s Brett Hein.
What about Dixie State, although? There are not any experiences on the place the college, which is altering its identify to Utah Tech subsequent month, might play in an MTE within the upcoming season.
The Trailblazers taking part in within the Northshore Basic can be attention-grabbing, contemplating Dixie State used to play in the identical convention as BYU-Hawaii on the Division II degree, the Pacwest Convention, earlier than the Trailblazers jumped to Division I.