Cancún Challenge

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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)

The Cancun Challenge (Spanish: Desafío Cancún) is a college basketball tournament organized by Triple Crown Sports which currently features eight NCAA Division I men'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 features round-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 in Playa del Carmen shortly before it was scheduled to occur due to damage sustained at the original location from Hurricane 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

^[2]

Team	Record
San Diego State	2–1
Wisconsin	2–1
Providence	1–2
VCU	1–2

Team	Record
Iowa	2–0
BYU	1–1
Idaho State	1–1
Rice	1–1
Vermont	1–1
Rhode Island	0–2

Team	Record
Creighton	2–0
Georgia Tech	1–1
James Madison	1–1
Michigan State	1–1
Montana State	1–1
New Mexico	0–2

Team	Record
Maryland	2–1
Washington State	2–1
Green Bay	1–2
UMass	0–3

^[3] All games streamed on FloHoops.com

Team	Record
Baylor	2–0
Houston	1–1
Arizona State	1–2
Fordham	1–2

Team	Record
UCF	1–0
USC	1-1
Seton Hall	1–1
Toledo	1–1
Idaho State	0–2
Iowa	0–0

Due to COVID-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 at Titan Field House in Melbourne, FL.

Team	Record
Creighton	2–0
North Carolina	2–0
New Mexico	1–1
West Virginia	1–1
Missouri	0–2
Temple	0–2

Team	Record
Florida Gulf Coast	3–0
South Dakota State	2–1
Notre Dame	1–2
South Florida	0–3

^[5]

Team	Record
NC State	2–0
Georgia Tech	2–0
Idaho State	1–1
Michigan State	1–1
Kennesaw State	0–2
George Washington	0–2

Team	Record
Syracuse	3–0
DePaul	2–1
Kansas State	1–2
Princeton	0–3

^[6]

Team	Record
Tennessee	3–0
Indiana State	1–1
Marquette	1–1
Oklahoma State	1–1
South Dakota	1–2
Montana	0–2

Team	Record
Mississippi State	3–0
Green Bay	2–1
Arizona State	1–2
Columbia	0–3

^[7]

Team	Record
UCLA	2–0
Idaho State	1–1
Iowa	1–1
James Madison	1–1
Toledo	1–1
Davidson	0–2

Team	Record
Stanford	3–0
Purdue	2–1
Wichita State	1–2
Northeastern	0–3

Team	Record
Seton Hall	2–0
Georgia Tech	1–1
NC State	1–1
Northern Iowa	1–1
UAB	1–1
High Point	0–2

Team	Record
Duke	3–0
Idaho	2–1
Iowa State	1–2
Texas State	0–3

Team	Record
Washington	3–0
Florida State	2–1
Furman	1–2
Hartford	0–3

Team	Record
Princeton	3–0
Wake Forest	2–1
Montana	1–2
Charlotte	0–3

Team	Record
Arizona State	3–0
North Carolina	2–1
Illinois	1–2
Arkansas State	0–3

Team	Record
Iowa	3–0
USC	2–1
Boston College	1–2
UNC Wilmington	0–3

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