NASSAU, The Bahamas- Veteran sports activities promoter bdG Sports has introduced that McNeese ladies’s basketball has accepted an invite to the 2025 Baha Mar Hoops Pink Flamingo Championship scheduled for Nov. 24 and 26 on the Baha Mar Convention, Arts & Entertainment Center. The event is without doubt one of the largest regular-season occasions within the sport of faculty basketball that’s held yearly.
“We are honored to accept an invitation to compete in the Baha Mar Pink Flamingo Championship,” mentioned head coach Ayla Guzzardo.
This marks the primary time McNeese ladies’s basketball will compete on this prestigious event.
“This tournament represents an exciting milestone in our program,” mentioned Guzzardo. “We are so grateful to our administration for pouring into our program. Our student-athletes have labored diligently to earn this chance, and we’re proud they may be capable to expertise the sort of competitors on this stage.
Joining McNeese within the eight-team discipline shall be Alabama, Belmont, Harvard, Minnesota, Ohio State, South Florida and West Virginia. Seven of the eight groups superior to postseason play final yr.
The discipline shall be divided into two, four-team brackets that can crown two champions. McNeese compete within the Goombay Division and can face West Virginia at 1:30 p.m. ET on Monday, March 24.
The Goombay Division comfort recreation is slated for 11 a.m. ET with the championship set for 1:30 ET on Wednesday, Nov. 26.
BAHA MAR HOOPS PINK FLAMINGO CHAMPIONSHIP (Nov. 24 & 26)
WOMEN’S TEAMS
GOOMBAY DIVISION – Belmont, McNeese, Ohio State, West Virginia
JUNKANOO DIVISION – Alabama, Harvard, Minnesota, USF)
GOOMBAY DIVISION
Monday, Nov. 24 – First Round
Game 1: Ohio State vs. Belmont (11 a.m. ET/Streaming TBA)
Game 2: West Virginia vs. McNeese (1:30 p.m. ET/Streaming TBA)
Wednesday, Nov. 26 – Consolation/Championship
Game 3: Consolation: TBA vs. TBA (11 a.m. ET/Streaming TBA)
Game 4: Championship: TBA vs. TBA (1:30 p.m. ET/Streaming TBA)
JUNKANOO DIVISION
Monday, Nov. 24 – First Round
Game 1: Minnesota vs. USF (4 p.m. ET/Streaming TBA)
Game 2: Alabama vs. Harvard (6:30 p.m. ET/Streaming TBA)
Wednesday, Nov. 26 – Consolation/Championship
Order for taking part in Consolation and Championship video games shall be decided following conclusion of first spherical.
(4 p.m. ET/6:30 p.m. ET)
TICKETS AND VIP PACKAGES ARE ONSALE NOW
Tickets and VIP packets are at the moment obtainable for buy at www.bahamarhoops.com. Amenities of the VIP packages embrace a four-night keep on the Grand Hyatt Baha Mar, two courtside tickets to all video games of the occasion, two tickets to the event’s VIP reception (Nov. 25) with dinner and open bar included, round-trip floor transportation from the airport and resort, two each day breakfast vouchers, welcome items and private concierge service. (Airfare not included within the packages.)
MORE THAN BASKETBALL AWAITS AT THE BEAUTIFUL BAHA MAR RESORT
The exceptional Baha Mar resort serves because the backdrop to this basketball showcase. Anchored by Grand Hyatt and that includes SLS Baha Mar and Rosewood Baha Mar, the resort is located on 1,000 acres overlooking Nassau’s well-known turquoise ocean waters. The vacation spot resort boasts greater than 2,300 rooms, the most important on line casino within the Caribbean, a $200 million luxurious water park, an 18-hole Jack Nicklaus Signature Golf Course, the Caribbean’s first and solely flagship ESPA Spa and a set of greater than 45 eating places and lounges.
ABOUT BAHA MAR HOOPS
Baha Mar yearly performs host to one of many largest regular-season occasions within the sport of faculty basketball. Each November across the Thanksgiving vacation, 20 NCAA Division I males’s and girls’s groups go to the beautiful resort to compete in varied basketball tournaments. In complete, 20 video games shall be performed over an 11-day span.
Each August, the resort additionally holds the Baha Mar Hoops Summer League, providing NCAA groups exhibition video games in opposition to worldwide competitors as a part of a overseas tour. The resort has welcomed males’s basketball groups from Kentucky, Louisville, Penn State, Rhode Island and Xavier for summer time exhibition excursions lately.
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ABOUT bdG SPORTS
bdG Sports is a sports activities and leisure chief with a dynamic occasion administration portfolio anchored with a spotlight in basketball {and professional} golf. The agency boasts an occasion schedule that has delivered important financial influence to a number of communities all through North America and the Caribbean whereas that includes broadcasts to viewers throughout the globe.
In basketball, bdG has a prolonged historical past of manufacturing school basketball content material. From summer time exhibition excursions to a number of high-profile in-season tournaments, bdG will contract almost 150 regular-season males’s and girls’s Division I basketball video games yearly. It boasts the file for the most important hoops crowd in Nevada state historical past (Duke-Gonzaga 2021 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas) and the second-most watched recreation since 2008 (Arkansas-Illinois on Thanksgiving Day 2024 with 5.1 million viewers). bdG is proud to be the one third-party operator which manages a convention event, aiding The Big West Conference Tournament every March in Henderson, Nevada. In skilled basketball, bdG managed dwelling video games for the NBA G-League’s Ignite for its two years on the Dollar Loan Center.
In skilled golf, bdG owns and operates two season-opening Korn Ferry Tour tournaments, The Bahamas Golf Classic at Paradise Island and The Bahamas Great Abaco Classic, each that includes $1 million purses. And amongst its latest occasions, the ESPN Ultimate Fantasy Football Weekend at Baha Mar every August.