North Carolina State University Athletics
NC State to Play in 2025 Cancun Challenge
2/5/2025 12:09:00 PM | Women's Basketball
FORT COLLINS, Colo. - The NC State women's basketball team will play in the 2025 Cancun Challenge next season, as announced by Triple Crown Sports Wednesday. The Cancun Challenge is set for Nov. 27-29, 2025 at the Hard Rock Hotel Riviera Maya.
The Pack will play in the Yucatan Tournament. Other released teams in that field include Purdue, San Francisco, TCU and UAB. On the Mayan Tournament side, Kansas State and South Dakota State are confirmed entrants.
This marks NC State's third tournament appearance in Cancun. NC State last played in the Cancun Challenge in 2018, in which the Pack defeated Michigan State (78-74) and George Washington (69-61).
More information, including schedules for the event, will continue to be released on the event website: Cancun Challenge
NC State is set to play next at No. 22 Florida State on Sunday, Feb. 9 in Tallahassee. That game will tipoff at 2 p.m. on The CW.
Based in Fort Collins, CO., Triple Crown Sports has been producing youth, high school and college events for more than 40 years. TCS runs the postseason WNIT basketball event and produces the men's and women's DI Cancun Challenge tournaments in November. Triple Crown is also powering a "WNIT" concept events in D-I volleyball (NIVC), with that event debuting in 2017. Triple Crown's PV College Challenge features more than 10 of the top DI college softball teams in the country each year in Puerto Vallarta, MX. Anchored by the 1,100-team Colorado 4th of July event, TC fastpitch tournaments draw the nation's finest club programs, and hundreds of college coaches attend TCS events for recruiting purposes. TCS produces one of the largest youth baseball events in the world with the 700-team Omaha SlumpBuster during the College World Series. The Triple Crown Volleyball NIT has become the top-recruited club volleyball event in the country each February when 670 teams compete in Kansas City, MO.
