WVU Men’s Hoops Will Head to Southwest Florida for 2023 Rocket Mortgage Fort Myers Tip-Off

FORT MYERS, Fla. – The four-team Beach Division subject of the 2023 Rocket Mortgage Fort Myers Tip-Off was introduced at present, that includes 4 energy convention packages which can be set to compete for early-season bragging rights subsequent November.
 
SMU, Virginia, West Virginia and Wisconsin make up the four-team Beach Division of the 2023 Rocket Mortgage Fort Myers Tip-Off, which can happen Nov. 20-22. All video games will likely be performed at Suncoast Credit Union Arena on the campus Florida SouthWestern State College in Fort Myers, Fla. Matchups, sport occasions and tv designations will likely be introduced at a later date.
 
The solely method to assure tickets for the Tournament, which offered out final yr, is by buying an official fan journey bundle. Travel packages for the 2023 Tournament will go on sale this spring, however followers can instantly register to obtain information and e-mail alerts from the Tournament concerning journey bundle availability. Details and registration information might be discovered at www.fortmyerstipoff.com/travel. Ticket-only packages, primarily based on availability, will go on sale subsequent fall.
 
“The four teams taking part in the 2023 Rocket Mortgage Fort Myers Tip-Off are historically strong programs that reinforce the premier status of this event in the eyes of the college basketball community,” mentioned Mark Starsiak, match director and vice chairman at Intersport. “Between national championship contenders, recent Final Four participants, coaching veterans and passionate fan bases, these teams will create a very special environment. We can’t wait to host these programs in Lee County and Southwest Florida.”
 
The 4 packages of the 2023 Beach Division have mixed for 82 convention common season or match championships and 92 NCAA Tournament appearances. Wisconsin and Virginia have every appeared within the Final Four throughout the final decade and the Cavaliers claimed the 2019 NCAA Championship.
 
The 4 head coaches that may convey their groups to Southwest Florida in 2023 boast unimaginable resumes that make them among the many most revered and profitable in school basketball. Bob Huggins, now in his sixteenth season as West Virginia head coach and forty first general, is a newly minted Naismith Hall of Famer and ranks among the many NCAA all-time teaching leaders. Tony Bennett led Virginia to a nationwide title in 2019 and is in his 14th season main the Cavaliers. Greg Gard, the reigning Big Ten Coach of the Year and Naismith National Coach of the Year finalist in 2022, has guided Wisconsin to Big Ten regular-season titles in two of the final three seasons. Finally, Rob Lanier is in his first yr on the helm for SMU after three years as the pinnacle coach at Georgia State and arrives in Dallas with over 30 years as a collegiate teaching expertise at Tennessee, Florida, Texas and Virginia, amongst others.
 
Now in its fifth yr, the Rocket Mortgage Fort Myers Tip-Off has turn out to be one of many high early-season occasions within the nation and a fixture within the Southwest Florida sports activities calendar. The match, which has hosted a number of Final Four-caliber packages in its first 4 seasons together with Gonzaga, Kansas, Auburn, Loyola (Chicago), Florida and Ohio State, will welcome 4 energy convention packages to the Beach Division for the third straight yr (Georgia Tech, Marquette, Mississippi State and Utah in 2022; Florida, Ohio State, Cal and Seton Hall in 2021).
 
The 2023 Rocket Mortgage Fort Myers Tip-Off will as soon as once more embrace a second, four-team Palms Division subject. Those 4 taking part packages will likely be introduced within the coming months.
 
About the Teams of the 2023 Rocket Mortgage Fort Myers Tip-Off Beach Division:
 
SMU Mustangs

• Head coach Rob Lanier is in his first yr on the helm for SMU
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• Lanier arrived in Dallas with greater than 30 years of expertise as a collegiate coach, together with the final three years as the pinnacle coach at Georgia State
• Overall, Lanier’s groups have made 12 NCAA Tournaments, gained 5 convention titles, three common season championships, and two convention match crowns
• 2021-22: 24-9 general file and 13-4 mark in convention play; was one of many high 4 seeds within the 2022 NIT

 
Virginia Cavaliers

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• Head coach Tony Bennett is getting into his 14th season main the Cavaliers and his seventeenth season general; is on the cusp of successful his four-hundredth sport in the course of the 2022-23 season
• Bennett has led Virginia to 10 consecutive postseason appearances, together with the 2019 nationwide championship, 5 ACC regular-season titles and two ACC Tournament championships
• Has began this yr 4-0 and knocked off a pair of top-20 packages to win its early-season match final Sunday
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• 2021-22: 21-14 general file and 12-8 mark in convention play, reached Third Round of NIT

 
West Virginia Mountaineers

• Head coach Bob Huggins, getting into his sixteenth season main the Mountaineers and forty first general, was inducted to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame as a part of the Class of 2022
• Huggins not too long ago moved into third place on the all-time Division I teaching wins checklist, not too long ago tying Jim Calhoun with 920 profession victories; he’s second all-time amongst lively Division I coaches
• The Mountaineers have made 10 appearances within the NCAA Tournament since Huggins’ arrival for the 2007-08 season
• 2021-22: 16-17 general file and 4-14 mark in convention play

 
Wisconsin Badgers

• Head coach Greg Gard, the reigning Big Ten Coach of the Year and Naismith National Coach of the Year finalist, is getting into his eighth season on the helm for the Badgers
• Gard has led the Badgers to Big Ten regular-season titles in two of the final three seasons
• Since Gard took over this system in 2015, the Badgers have made 5 NCAA Tournaments, lacking the postseason simply as soon as (not together with the canceled 2020 postseason)
• 2021-22: 25-8 general file and 15-5 mark in convention play; Big Ten Champions; reached Second Round of NCAA Tournament

 
About the Fort Myers Tip-Off
An annual celebration of males’s and girls’s school basketball, the Fort Myers Tip-Off welcomes 12 of the highest packages from across the nation for six days of unimaginable competitors to see which groups and their followers will #PersonalTheFort throughout Thanksgiving Week. Contested at Suncoast Credit Union Arena, the house of Florida SouthWestern State College, the Fort Myers Tip-Off has shortly turn out to be a staple of the Southwest Florida sports activities calendar. For extra information and to keep up to date on the taking part groups, observe us on Twitter and Instagram, or go to www.fortmyerstipoff.com or www.womensfortmyerstipoff.com.
 
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