Cancun Challenge

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Tournament information
Sport	College Basketball
Location	United States (campus sites) Mexico (Riviera Maya)
Month played	November
Established	2005 (Women's) 2008 (Men's)
Format	MTE
Teams	10 (Women's) 8 (Men's)
Current champion
Wyoming (Men's Riviera Division) Gardner–Webb (Men's Mayan Division)

TheCancun Challenge (Spanish:Desafío Cancún) is a college basketball tournament organized by Triple Crown Sports which currently features eightNCAADivision Imen's basketball teams and ten women's basketball teams. The formats of the men's and women's tournaments have varied from year to year. The men's tournament currently splits the eight teams into two divisions of four and consists of games played in the United States at participants' campus sites followed by a bracketed tournament played in (or near)Cancún,Mexico. The women's tournament splits the ten teams into one division of six and one division of four and each featuresround-robin play in Cancún with no bracket, and therefore no champion. The two divisions in each tournament are the Riviera Division and the Mayan Division.

The Mexico portion of the event has been held at multiple venues in and around Cancún. The inaugural 2005 tournament was relocated from the Moon Palace Resort to the Aventura Spa Palace Resort inPlaya del Carmen shortly before it was scheduled to occur due to damage sustained at the original location fromHurricane Wilma.^[1] The tournament was held at one of these two sites each year up until 2014, when it would be moved to the Hard Rock Hotel Riviera Maya, where it has been held since.CBS Sports Network televises the men's Riviera Division games. All Mexico games in the men's Mayan Division along with all women's games are streamed on FloHoops.

Previous men's champions include Vanderbilt (2008), Kentucky (2009), Missouri (2010), Illinois (2011), Wichita State (2012), Wisconsin (2013), Northern Iowa (2014), Maryland (2015), Purdue (2016), LA Tech (2017), Bradley (2018), West Virginia (2019), Clemson (2020), Saint Louis (2021) and Auburn (2022). Previous women's participating teams include marquee programs such as Arizona State, Baylor, Duke, Georgia Tech, Iowa, Iowa State, Kansas State, Maryland, Oklahoma, Purdue, Seton Hall, Stanford, UCLA, and Washington, among others.

* – Denotes overtime period

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^[3]All games streamed on FloHoops.com

Due toCOVID-19 pandemic the 2020 Cancún Challenge was not held, instead a 4 team tournament was branded as the Space Coast Challenge,^[4] games were played atTitan Field House inMelbourne, FL.

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