NASSAU, The Bahamas – Saint Joseph's women's basketball will head to The Bahamas this Thanksgiving as part of the six-team field for the 2026 Baha Mar Hoops Nassau Championship, set for Nov. 27 and 29 at the Baha Mar Convention, Arts & Entertainment Center in Nassau.
The Hawks will face USC on Friday, Nov. 27 at 1:30 p.m. ET before meeting Illinois on Sunday, Nov. 29 at 11 a.m. ET. Both games will be part of a three-game session each day, with the six participating teams each playing twice during the event.
The 2026 Baha Mar Hoops Nassau Championship features a field of six NCAA Division I programs, including three teams that advanced to the 2026 NCAA Tournament: Illinois, Iowa State and USC. The field also includes Belmont and Marquette.
TICKETS AND TRAVEL
Fan VIP packages for the 2026 Baha Mar Hoops Nassau Championship are available now and include a four-night stay at the Grand Hyatt Baha Mar, courtside tickets to both days of the championship, admission to the event's VIP reception, round-trip airport transfers, daily breakfast, a welcome gift and personal concierge service. Airfare is not included, and a passport is required for travel to The Bahamas.
Fans interested in general admission tickets and hotel accommodations can find additional information at bahamarhoops.com.
Streaming information for the event will be announced at a later date.
WONDER AWAITS AT THE BEAUTIFUL BAHA MAR RESORT
The remarkable Baha Mar resort serves as the backdrop to this basketball showcase. Anchored by Grand Hyatt and featuring SLS Baha Mar and Rosewood Baha Mar, the resort is situated on 1,000 acres overlooking Nassau's famous turquoise ocean waters. The destination resort boasts more than 2,300 rooms, the largest casino in the Caribbean, a $200 million luxury water park, an 18-hole Jack Nicklaus Signature Golf Course, the Caribbean's first and only flagship ESPA Spa, a new jazz club, and a collection of more than 45 restaurants and lounges.
ABOUT BAHA MAR HOOPS
Baha Mar annually plays host to one of the largest regular-season events in the sport of college basketball. Each November around the Thanksgiving holiday, 16 or more NCAA Division I men's and women's teams visit the stunning resort to compete in three basketball tournaments.
Each August, the resort also holds the Baha Mar Hoops Summer League, offering NCAA teams exhibition games against international competition as part of a foreign tour. The resort welcomed an event-record six teams to Baha Mar last month, including Arkansas, Cincinnati, Louisville, Texas A&M, South Carolina and Valparaiso. Past programs to attend for summer exhibition tours include Kentucky, Penn State, Rhode Island and Xavier.
BAHA MAR HOOPS SOCIAL TAGS
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ABOUT BDG SPORTS
bdG Sports is a sports and entertainment leader with a dynamic and ever-growing event management portfolio with a cornerstone in basketball and professional golf and an expansive focus toward baseball. The firm boasts an event schedule that has delivered significant economic impact to multiple communities throughout North America and the Caribbean while featuring broadcasts to viewers across the globe.
In basketball, bdG has a lengthy history of producing premium college basketball content. From summer exhibition tours to multiple high-profile in-season tournaments and neutral-site events, bdG will produce and manage some of the most premier games and events in college basketball each season. It set the record for the largest hoops crowd in Nevada state history (Duke-Gonzaga 2021 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas), one of the most watched regular-season games since 2008 (Arkansas-Illinois on Thanksgiving Day 2024 with 5.1 million viewers) and one of the largest events in the sport with both men's and women's teams competing annually at Baha Mar Hoops. bdG is the only third-party operator which manages a conference tournament, assisting The Big West Men's & Women's Championships each March in Henderson, Nev.
In professional golf, bdG owns and operates two season-opening Korn Ferry Tour tournaments, The Bahamas Golf Classic at Atlantis Paradise Island and The Bahamas Great Abaco Classic at The Abaco Club, both featuring $1 million purses.
For NCAA baseball, bdG owns and operates the annual Atlantis Collegiate Baseball Series and the Orlando Baseball Classic, a new multi-team event at ESPN Wide World of Sports.
