UM to Play in Puerto Rico Tip-Off in 2015
The University of Miami men’s basketball team will be one of eight teams in the 2015 Puerto Rico Tip-Off, ESPN Events announced Thursday afternoon.
Miami will join Butler, Minnesota, Mississippi State, Missouri State, Temple, Texas Tech and Utah in San Juan Nov. 19-22, 2015. Utah is currently ranked No. 25 and Minnesota is receiving votes in the AP poll.
The Canes last played in the Puerto Rico event in 2007, when Miami defeated Marist, VCU and Providence to take home the championship.
Puerto Rico is the home country of current junior point guard Angel Rodriguez, who lived in Cupey, P.R., until he was 15 years old. Rodriguez still has family in Puerto Rico.
Additional information, including travel packages, can be found on the Puerto Rico Tip-Off website.
ESPN Events, a subsidiary of ESPN, owns and operates early-season basketball events worldwide beginning in early-November and running through the Christmas holiday.
The four multi-day, destination events consisting of the Gildan Charleston Classic, Puerto Rico Tip-Off, DIRECTV Wooden Legacy and Orlando Classic are bracket-format tournaments featuring 12 games over three days. The teams compete once per day, advancing with a victory. The two remaining undefeated teams will face off in a championship game. Also following the same format, the Hawaiian Airlines Diamond Head Classic will be announced in late December.
In addition, the Armed Forces Classic, to be played on Friday, Nov. 13, and the State Farm Champions Classic, to be held on Tuesday, Nov. 17, make-up the 2015 owned-and-operated events. Fans will also get a glimpse of six top teams at the annual Jimmy V Men’s and Women’s Classics Presented by Corona with teams to be announced surrounding the events in December.
ESPN Events
ESPN Events, a subsidiary of ESPN, owns and operates a large portfolio of collegiate sporting events worldwide. The roster includes two Labor Day weekend college football games; 11 college bowl games and eight college basketball events, which accounts for approximately 200 hours of programming, reaches almost 64 million viewers and attracts over a half a million attendees each year. With satellite offices in Boca Raton, Boise, Birmingham, Dallas-Fort Worth, Albuquerque, St. Petersburg and Las Vegas, ESPN Events builds relationships with conferences, schools and local communities, as well as providing unique experiences for teams and fans.
ESPN Events also manages the Big 12 Corporate Partner Program.
Collegiate Football
AdvoCare V100 Texas Bowl (Houston); AdvoCare Texas Kickoff (Houston); Birmingham Bowl (Alabama); Bitcoin St. Petersburg Bowl (Florida); Boca Raton Bowl (Florida); Famous Idaho Potato Bowl (Boise); Gildan New Mexico Bowl (Albuquerque); Hawai’i Bowl (Honolulu); Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl (Dallas-Fort Worth); MEAC/SWAC Challenge presented by Disney (Orlando, Fla.); Raycom Media Camellia Bowl (Montgomery, Ala.); Royal Purple Las Vegas Bowl (Nevada); The Home Depot College Football Awards (Orlando, Fla.) and Zaxby’s Heart of Dallas Bowl (Dallas-Fort Worth)
Collegiate Basketball
Armed Forces Classic (U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Borinquen, PR); DIRECTV Wooden Legacy (Orange County, Calif.); Gildan Charleston Classic (South Carolina); Hawaiian Airlines Diamond Head Classic (Honolulu); Jimmy V Men’s & Women’s Basketball Classics Presented by Corona (New York City & Notre Dame, Ind.); Orlando Classic (Walt Disney World Resort near Orlando, Fla.); Puerto Rico Tip-Off (San Juan, PR) and State Farm Champions Classic (Indianapolis)
For more information, visit www.espnevents.com or follow on Twitter and Facebook.
