SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Sports San Diego announced the updated field for the 2024 Rady Children’s Invitational tournament on Thursday morning.
The second annual tournament will feature BYU and Purdue, as previously announced in October 2023, with NC State and Ole Miss replacing Notre Dame and Arkansas. The event will be held from Nov. 28-29 at LionTree Arena, located on the campus on the UC San Diego. Each day features two games, with the championship and third-place games taking place on Nov. 29. Tip times will be announced at a later date.
The Cougars could potentially face the national runner-up for a second consecutive season if they face the Boilermakers, who fell 75-60 to UConn in last season’s national title game. The last meeting between the two schools came at the 2014 Maui Invitational, a 87-85 overtime victory for Purdue where BYU’s all-time leading scorer Tyler Haws had a game-high 32 points.
BYU and NC State have faced off five times, including last season in the championship game of the Vegas Showdown where the Cougars used a big second half to defeat a Wolfpack squad that won the ACC Tournament and advanced to the Final Four. The only BYU-Ole Miss all-time meeting came in the First Four of the 2015 NCAA Tournament, a 94-90 win for the Rebels.
All tournament games will air nationally on FOX or FS1. Tickets are available for purchase at RadyChildrensInvitational.com. Prices for a two-day pass range from $80 to $140 with $5 from every ticket sold going to Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego.