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GCU, Stanford to play event in Palm Desert
6/3/2024 11:30:00 AM | Men's Basketball, Paul Coro
Lopes add another marquee November game as Smith takes over Cardinal
Grand Canyon is headed to Coachella Valley for a festival of basketball.
GCU will take part in the Acrisure Holiday Classic with a Nov. 26 game against Stanford in greater Palm Springs, California.
The Lopes and Cardinal will play at Acrisure Arena, an 11,000-seat venue that opened in December 2022. The Palm Desert, California, arena is located along Interstate 10 about 250 miles from GCU's campus.
"We are excited for the opportunity to play Stanford and be in Palm Springs," GCU head coach Bryce Drew said, "We love the location becuase it is within driving distance for our fans."
The game will be part of the four-day Acrisure Series, the country's largest series of MTE (multi-team event) games.
GCU is returning four of its top six players from a historic season that included the most wins (30) and its first NCAA tournament victory of its 11-year Division I era.
Stanford is coming off a 14-18 season but hired a new head coach who also reached the NCAA tournament second round last season. Kyle Smith took a Washington State program that had suffered seven consecutive sub-.500 teams and posted five consecutive winning records, including last season's 25-10 mark and second-place Pac-12 finish.
The Cardinal will be in its first ACC season with returning 7-foot-1 French center Maxime Raynaud, who averaged 15.5 points and 9.6 rebounds last season.
"We are excited to have creatively scheduled four full days of high-quality men's and women's college basketball at Acrisure Arena," co-Tournament Director Dan Shell said. "We are very grateful to our partners at Acrisure and Visit Greater Palm Springs, who made this event possible, and for TNT Sports for jumping into this with us for the years to come to take this event to the next level. We think the Acrisure Series of college basketball events will be among the best holiday events in the country."
Single-day tickets for the Acrisure Holiday Classic will go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday on Ticketmaster and acrisurearena.com.
The game falls two days before Thanksgiving and 12 days after GCU's previously announced Nov. 14 game against Arizona State, which will be played in downtown Phoenix's Footprint Center as part of the Hall of Fame Series.
GCU will take part in the Acrisure Holiday Classic with a Nov. 26 game against Stanford in greater Palm Springs, California.The Lopes and Cardinal will play at Acrisure Arena, an 11,000-seat venue that opened in December 2022. The Palm Desert, California, arena is located along Interstate 10 about 250 miles from GCU's campus.
"We are excited for the opportunity to play Stanford and be in Palm Springs," GCU head coach Bryce Drew said, "We love the location becuase it is within driving distance for our fans."
The game will be part of the four-day Acrisure Series, the country's largest series of MTE (multi-team event) games.
GCU is returning four of its top six players from a historic season that included the most wins (30) and its first NCAA tournament victory of its 11-year Division I era.
Stanford is coming off a 14-18 season but hired a new head coach who also reached the NCAA tournament second round last season. Kyle Smith took a Washington State program that had suffered seven consecutive sub-.500 teams and posted five consecutive winning records, including last season's 25-10 mark and second-place Pac-12 finish.
The Cardinal will be in its first ACC season with returning 7-foot-1 French center Maxime Raynaud, who averaged 15.5 points and 9.6 rebounds last season.
"We are excited to have creatively scheduled four full days of high-quality men's and women's college basketball at Acrisure Arena," co-Tournament Director Dan Shell said. "We are very grateful to our partners at Acrisure and Visit Greater Palm Springs, who made this event possible, and for TNT Sports for jumping into this with us for the years to come to take this event to the next level. We think the Acrisure Series of college basketball events will be among the best holiday events in the country."
Single-day tickets for the Acrisure Holiday Classic will go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday on Ticketmaster and acrisurearena.com.
The game falls two days before Thanksgiving and 12 days after GCU's previously announced Nov. 14 game against Arizona State, which will be played in downtown Phoenix's Footprint Center as part of the Hall of Fame Series.
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