WBB Schedule Set for 2026 Baha Mar Hoops Nassau Championship

MILWAUKEE – Marquette University women’s basketball will travel to Nassau, Bahamas, for the 2026 Baha Mar Hoops Nassau Championship, Nov. 27 and 29, at the Baha Mar Convention, Arts & Entertainment Center.

The six-team field, announced Tuesday by bdG Sports, includes Belmont, Illinois, Iowa State, Marquette, Saint Joseph’s and USC. Each team will play two games over Thanksgiving weekend at the Baha Mar Resort.

Marquette opens the event against Illinois on Nov. 27 at 10 a.m. CT before closing tournament play against Belmont on Nov. 29 at 4 p.m. CT.

Illinois and Marquette will meet in the opening game of the tournament, while USC faces Saint Joseph’s and Iowa State takes on Belmont later in the day. The championship’s second day features Illinois against Saint Joseph’s, Iowa State versus USC and Marquette squaring off with Belmont.

2026 Baha Mar Hoops Nassau Championship Schedule
Friday, Nov. 27

• Illinois vs. Marquette, 10 a.m. CT
• USC vs. Saint Joseph’s, 12:30 p.m. CT
• Iowa State vs. Belmont, 3 p.m. CT

Sunday, Nov. 29

• Illinois vs. Saint Joseph’s, 10 a.m. CT
• Iowa State vs. USC, 12:30 p.m. CT
• Marquette vs. Belmont, 3 p.m. CT

Streaming information for the tournament will be announced at a later date.

The Baha Mar resort annually hosts one of the premier early-season collegiate basketball events in the country, welcoming NCAA Division I men’s and women’s programs to Nassau during the Thanksgiving holiday.

Fan travel packages and additional event information is available at BahaMarHoops.com.

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.

NOTE: This press release was submitted to Urban Milwaukee and was not written by an Urban Milwaukee writer. While it is believed to be reliable, Urban Milwaukee does not guarantee its accuracy or completeness.

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