2026-27 Men’s College Basketball Early Season Tournaments
Changes in scheduling rules mean this page will look different than it has in the past.
USC won the Maui Invitational last Thanksgiving week, but a late-season collapse saw the Trojans miss the NCAA Tournament. | Marco Garcia-Imagn Images Since teams are now able to schedule up to 32 regular-season games with no multi-team event exemption/requirement —starting with this season—this page will focus solely on bracketed and other multi-day/multi-game events (think Players Era and round-robin tournaments). Since there’s no need to set up scheduling arrangements masquerading as exempt tournaments, there’s no longer a need for me to track what every single D1 program is doing.
Teams may also now participate in more than one tournament per season! * = pending realignment on 7/1/2026 Rainbow Classic Nov. TBA: Honolulu ( Rocco Miller ) 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.