EARLY LOOK AT THE 2026-2027 MTE'S

[Loca5174]

Here is an early look at some of the already announced MTE's. Tulsa will be in the Acrisure Series again in Palm Springs and then we will also play in the new Dallas tournament in Frisco Texas right before Christmas. I am currently planning on attending the Dallas Tournament with Nevadanatural.​

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Rainbow Classic​

Nov. TBA: Honolulu
Format TBD
Cal State Fullerton (Big West)
Hawai’i (Mountain West*, host)
Portland (WCC)
1 TBD

U.S. Virgin Islands Paradise Jam​

Fri.–Mon., Nov. 20–23: Charlotte Amalie, V.I.
3 games, traditional bracket
Indiana State (MVC)
Southern Illinois (MVC)
Stephen F. Austin (Southland)
5 TBA

Charleston Classic​

Thurs. and Fri, Nov. 19 and 20 (probable): Charleston, S.C.
2 games, traditional brackets
Dayton (Atlantic 10)
Minnesota (Big Ten)
Oklahoma State (Big 12)
Utah (Big 12)
Virginia Tech (ACC)
3 TBD

Players Era 8​

Pre-Thanksgiving: Las Vegas
Format TBD
Auburn (SEC)
Florida (SEC)
Houston (Big 12)
Kansas (Big 12)
Notre Dame (ACC)
Rutgers (Big Ten)
UNLV (Mountain West)
West Virginia (Big 12)

Maui Invitational​

Mon.–Wed., Nov. 23–25: Lahaina, Hawai’i
3 games, traditional bracket
Arizona (Big 12)
BYU (Big 12)
Clemson (ACC)
Colorado State (Pac-12*)
Mississippi (SEC)
Providence (Big East)
VCU (Atlantic 10)
Washington (Big Ten)

Fort Myers Tip-Off​

Tues. and Thurs., Nov. 24 and 26: Fort Myers, Fla.
2 games, preset matchups
Tues. Nov. 24: Pitt (ACC) vs. Oklahoma (SEC) and DePaul (Big East) vs. Purdue (Big Ten)
Thurs., Nov. 26: Pitt vs. DePaul and Oklahoma vs. Purdue

Players Era 16​

Thanksgiving week: Las Vegas
Format TBD
Alabama (SEC)
Baylor (Big 12)
Creighton (Big East)
Gonzaga (Pac-12*)
Iowa State (Big 12)
Kansas State (Big 12)
Louisville (Big 12)
Maryland (Big Ten)
Miami (Fla.) (ACC)
Michigan (Big Ten)
Oregon (Big Ten)
St. John’s (Big East)
San Diego State (Pac-12*)
TCU (Big 12)
Tennessee (SEC)
Texas Tech (Big 12)

Acrisure Series​

Thanksgiving week: Palm Springs, Calif.
Format TBD
Arizona State (Big 12)
Cal Baptist (Big West*)
Colorado (Big 12)
Fordham (Atlantic 10)
Fresno State (Pac-12*)
Grand Canyon (Mountain West)
Loyola Marymount (WCC)
Nevada (Mountain West)
Oregon State (Pac-12)
San Diego (WCC)
San Francisco (WCC)
Santa Clara (WCC)
Seattle (WCC)
South Carolina (SEC)
Stanford (SEC)
Tulsa (American)
UC Irvine (Big West)
UC San Diego (Big West)
USC (Big Ten)
Utah State (Pac-12*)
Washington State (Pac-12)

Live Oak Holiday Classic​

Wed.–Sat., Nov. 25–28: Wilmington, N.C.
3 games, round-robin
Liberty (CUSA)
Princeton (Ivy)
St. Thomas (Summit)
UNCW (CAA, host)

ESPN Events Invitational​

Thurs. and Fri, Nov. 26 and 27 (probable): Lake Buena Vista, Fla.
Format TBD
Cincinnati (Big 12)
Others TBA

Battle 4 Atlantis​

Thurs. and Fri, Nov. 26 and 27 (probable): Paradise Island, Bahamas
2 games, traditional brackets

Bracket 1​

Memphis (American)
Penn State (Big Ten)
Wake Forest (ACC)
Xavier (Big East)

Bracket 2​

Marquette (Big East)
Texas A&M (SEC)
Virginia (ACC)
1 TBD

Rady Children’s Invitational​

Thurs. and Fri, Nov. 26 and 27: San Diego
2 games, traditional bracket
Georgetown (Big East)
Saint Mary’s (WCC)
Texas (SEC)
UCLA (Big Ten)

Hawai’i Thanksgiving Week Event​

Nov. TBA: Honolulu
Format TBD
Fresno State (Pac-12*)
Hawai’i (Mountain West*, host)
Sacramento State (Big West*)
1 TBD

The Dallas Tournament​

Fri.–Mon., Dec. 18–21: Frisco, Texas
Formats TBD
Colorado State (Pac-12*)
Florida Atlantic (American)
George Washington (Atlantic 10)
Loyola Chicago (Atlantic 10)
Nevada (Mountain West)
San Francisco (WCC)
Tulsa (American)
Utah State (Pac-12*)

Hawai’i Holiday Event (Diamond Head Classic?)​

Dec.. TBA: Honolulu
Format TBD
Hawai’i (Mountain West*, host)
3 TBD

 

[I.I.]

How about pre-season foreign trips? There used to be a limit on how often you could take them. I know the teams that did had a huge "team chemistry" advantage to start the real season with 10 or so new players. We have played in a few.

 

[Loca5174]

How about pre-season foreign trips? There used to be a limit on how often you could take them. I know the teams that did had a huge "team chemistry" advantage to start the real season with 10 or so new players. We have played in a few.

im only tracking merica

 

[Loca5174]

So there is not update on the format for the Acrisure that we will be doing in Palm Springs but there is for the Dallas Tournament.

There are currently no Tickets going on sale yet and I cant find a website for them and I fgure they are playing at the Comerica Center and there is nothing I saw on their site but apparently parings have been announced. Tulsa will be playing Utah State (Dec 19) and San Francisco (Dec 21). I do think we got the better schedule out of this lineup.

Utah State went 29-7 in the Mountain West last year and now they are in the newly reformed PAC-12. They were good enough to get a lot of votes in the polls and ended the season with a NET of 25. They beat 8 seed Villanova in the NCAA tournament and lost the second round game to Arizona by 12. They did lose 8 players to the Transfer portal but at this point has picked up 5 from other mid major programs. They did lose their coach to Cincinnati but have hired the coach from Northern Iowa. Tulsa played UNI in the Acrisure classic last season. I am sure that Utah State will run something similar to what UNI did last year.

San Francisco is out of the WCC. They have been competing with Gonzaga and Saint Mary's each year and is a very good team. This team lost 11 players to the transfer portal but have picked up players from Auburn and Gonzaga. Gonzaga moved to the PAC-12 (They have 9 teams) so they wont compete regularly with them anymore but they are still formidable. They did go 17-16 last year which is kinda out of character for them lately and this is the first time in a few years they didnt make the tournament or the NIT.

Here is the schedule for The Dallas Tournament

Fri., Dec. 18​

Colorado State (Pac-12) vs. Nevada (MW)
Florida Atlantic (American) vs. Loyola Chicago (Atlantic 10)

Sat., Dec. 19​

Utah State (Pac-12) vs. Tulsa (American)
San Francisco (WCC) vs. George Washington (Atlantic 10)

Sun., Dec. 20​

Florida Atlantic vs. Colorado State
Loyola Chicago vs. Nevada

Mon., Dec. 21​

Tulsa vs. San Francisco
Utah State vs. George Washington

 

[nevadanatural]

Wish they would do winners vs winners rather than just switching opponents.

 

[Gmoney4WW]

If anybody has the schedule as revealed so far, including the other 'tourney', I'd appreciate it if they'd put it here, I lost all that stuff in a bad save of my roster.

 

[Loca5174]

If anybody has the schedule as revealed so far, including the other 'tourney', I'd appreciate it if they'd put it here, I lost all that stuff in a bad save of my roster.

They might have that on the pay board. Us peasants generally don’t get that kind of stuff.

 

[Gmoney4WW]

They might have that on the pay board. Us peasants generally don’t get that kind of stuff.

It was released in segments, and I could have sworn I saw some of it on the freebird board, but maybe not. It was only 3 or 4 non conf opponents and the tourneys. In conf was released on who we would play. Dates were either non existent or tentative on most of it.

 

[Loca5174]

This isn’t an MTE but it has to do with the NCAA tournament expansion. Wichita and Dayton will both host 3 games each for the opening round of the NCAA tournament for 2027 and 2028.

https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketbal...and-2028-opening-round-host-march-madness?amp

 

[astonmartin708_rivals]

So there is not update on the format for the Acrisure that we will be doing in Palm Springs but there is for the Dallas Tournament.

There are currently no Tickets going on sale yet and I cant find a website for them and I fgure they are playing at the Comerica Center and there is nothing I saw on their site but apparently parings have been announced. Tulsa will be playing Utah State (Dec 19) and San Francisco (Dec 21). I do think we got the better schedule out of this lineup.

Utah State went 29-7 in the Mountain West last year and now they are in the newly reformed PAC-12. They were good enough to get a lot of votes in the polls and ended the season with a NET of 25. They beat 8 seed Villanova in the NCAA tournament and lost the second round game to Arizona by 12. They did lose 8 players to the Transfer portal but at this point has picked up 5 from other mid major programs. They did lose their coach to Cincinnati but have hired the coach from Northern Iowa. Tulsa played UNI in the Acrisure classic last season. I am sure that Utah State will run something similar to what UNI did last year.

San Francisco is out of the WCC. They have been competing with Gonzaga and Saint Mary's each year and is a very good team. This team lost 11 players to the transfer portal but have picked up players from Auburn and Gonzaga. Gonzaga moved to the PAC-12 (They have 9 teams) so they wont compete regularly with them anymore but they are still formidable. They did go 17-16 last year which is kinda out of character for them lately and this is the first time in a few years they didnt make the tournament or the NIT.

Here is the schedule for The Dallas Tournament

Fri., Dec. 18​

Colorado State (Pac-12) vs. Nevada (MW)
Florida Atlantic (American) vs. Loyola Chicago (Atlantic 10)

Sat., Dec. 19​

Utah State (Pac-12) vs. Tulsa (American)
San Francisco (WCC) vs. George Washington (Atlantic 10)

Sun., Dec. 20​

Florida Atlantic vs. Colorado State
Loyola Chicago vs. Nevada

Mon., Dec. 21​

Tulsa vs. San Francisco
Utah State vs. George Washington

I might look at traveling to the accrisure one in Palm Springs. I just moved and it would be pretty doable for me.

 

[Loca5174]

So here is something interesting. The Dallas Tournament is Dec 18 - 21 in Frisco Texas. Tulsa plays as we have seen on the 19th and 21st. It so happens that Frisco is also hosting two college football bowl games. First one is the Frisco Football Classic on Dec 15 and the second is the Frisco Bowl on Dec 23.

if Tulsa could get an invite to that there could be a ton of people at the game and the tournament

 

[Loca5174]

Here is the link to the Texas Legends College Classic also known as The Dallas Tournament. Tickets will go on sale in the coming months. Should be September ish is my guess.

https://texaslegendscollegeclassic.com/

 

[Loca5174]

So as Chris posted, the tickets for the Texas Legends Classic went on sale Friday 8/7. The tickets for the Acrisure series in Palm Springs go on sale Saturday 8/8 where Tulsa will play Oregon State and Illinois State in back to back games. These two games and the two games lined up for The Texas Legends Classic have exponentially made our OOC better than last season

https://acrisurearena.com/2026-acri...ent-returns-to-acrisure-arena-november-21-26/

the schedule for the Acrisure Series is as follows


Saturday, November 21
11:00 a.m. PT – Fordham vs. Portland
1:30 p.m. PT – UC Irvine vs. San Diego
4:00 p.m. PT – California Baptist vs. Loyola Marymount

Sunday, November 22
11:00 a.m. PT – San Diego vs. Fordham
1:30 p.m. PT – UC Irvine vs. Loyola Marymount
4:00 p.m. PT – California Baptist vs. Portland
6:30 p.m. PT – Seattle vs. UC San Diego
9:00 p.m. PT – San José State vs. Loyola Chicago

Monday, November 23
11:00 a.m. PT – Tulsa vs. Oregon State
1:30 p.m. PT – Nevada vs. San Francisco
4:00 p.m. PT – Illinois State vs. Santa Clara
6:30 p.m. PT – Pod 4 Championship
9:00 p.m. PT – Pod 4 Third-Place Game

Tuesday, November 24
11:00 a.m. PT – Oregon State vs. San Francisco
1:30 p.m. PT – Tulsa vs. Illinois State
4:00 p.m. PT – Nevada vs. Santa Clara
6:30 p.m. PT – Grand Canyon vs. Saint Louis
9:00 p.m. PT – Stanford vs. Colorado

Wednesday, November 25
11:00 a.m. PT – Arizona State vs. LSU
1:30 p.m. PT – USC vs. South Carolina
4:00 p.m. PT – SMU vs. Utah State
6:30 p.m. PT – Pod 2 Championship
9:00 p.m. PT – Pod 2 Third-Place Game

Thursday, November 26
11:00 a.m. PT – South Carolina vs. Arizona State
1:30 p.m. PT – Utah State vs. USC
4:00 p.m. PT – SMU vs. LSU

 

[nevadanatural]

I was going to try and go to both of the TU MTEs but when I checked the tickets for the Acrisure series I got sticker shock. If I want a good seat it will cost from $200 to $500 per day depending on location. Nosebleeds 25 rows up are almost $100. I think I’ll skip this one and watch it on TV.

 

[Loca5174]

I was going to try and go to both of the TU MTEs but when I checked the tickets for the Acrisure series I got sticker shock. If I want a good seat it will cost from $200 to $500 per day depending on location. Nosebleeds 25 rows up are almost $100. I think I’ll skip this one and watch it on TV.

 

[Gmoney4WW]

Love the hair lipped minion.

 

[I.I.]

I was going to try and go to both of the TU MTEs but when I checked the tickets for the Acrisure series I got sticker shock. If I want a good seat it will cost from $200 to $500 per day depending on location. Nosebleeds 25 rows up are almost $100. I think I’ll skip this one and watch it on TV.

You get to watch 5 games in one session for $ 135 which is a good seat. About $27 per game. It may not be on TV. I don't think it was last year.

 

[nevadanatural]

You get to watch 5 games in one session for $ 135 which is a good seat. About $27 per game. It may not be on TV. I don't think it was last year.

I watched both games last year. San Jose was streamed and UNI was on TV. I’m watching 8 games for a similar price in Dallas, center court 12 rows up.

 

[Loca5174]

You get to watch 5 games in one session for $ 135 which is a good seat. About $27 per game. It may not be on TV. I don't think it was last year.

According to the TU schedule last year the UNI game was on CBSSN. The San Jose state game though only showed radio. I didn’t see any streaming unless the mountain west was streaming it which is possible.

this year we have Oregon State and Illinois state. OSU is in the PAC 12 so might be able to get streaming off that but not too sure about the Valley. So I am curious on their TV schedule this year. Maybe they arranged a better tv deal and all games will be broadcast

 

[nevadanatural]

Last year all games were televised except the first two in the morning session on the first day which included TU. I thought I was able to stream that one but my ancient memory may be faulty. I agree that OSU should be televised and I don’t see anything different between UNI and Illinois State, same conference. The blurb I read about the tourney had games on CBSSN, TrueTV, TNT and Max. I have all of those.