– Huskies to Face Boston School in Doubleheader at Mohegan Solar –
SPRINGFIELD, MASS. – The Naismith Basketball Corridor of Fame introduced the matchups for the second annual Basketball Corridor of Fame Exhibition Occasion. The NCAA waiver-approved doubleheader will characteristic UConn’s males’s and ladies’s basketball groups in opposition to Boston School on October 13 on the Mohegan Solar Area in Uncasville, Connecticut.
The occasion will mark the primary look for the UConn ladies’s group since capturing their twelfth nationwide championship in April. UConn’s males’s group returns to the occasion after headlining the primary version final October vs. Rhode Island.
“This yr’s showcase is very thrilling because it brings collectively each the boys’s and ladies’s groups from two outstanding New England applications—UConn and Boston School,” mentioned John L. Doleva, President and CEO of the Naismith Basketball Corridor of Fame. “Going down over a vacation weekend, it’s a terrific likelihood for followers to get pleasure from high-level basketball and regional satisfaction at Mohegan Solar.”
“To have one other day of exhibition UConn basketball, this time that includes each the women and men, is one thing that basketball followers all through the state will love,” mentioned Jeff Hamilton, President & GM of Mohegan Solar. “Mohegan Solar has lengthy been a proud accomplice with the Naismith Basketball Corridor of Fame, and we’re thrilled about this particular evening on October thirteenth inside Mohegan Solar Area, welcoming some nice basketball between the Huskies and Boston School Eagles.”
Tickets for the 2025 Basketball Corridor of Fame Exhibition Recreation will go on sale on Friday, August 1, through Ticketmaster and on the Mohegan Solar Area Field Workplace beginning Saturday, August 2.
Further particulars surrounding sport time, broadcast info, and credentials will probably be introduced at a later date. For extra info, please go to hoophall.com.
Quotes from Collaborating Head Coaches
“We had a terrific expertise enjoying within the Corridor of Fame Exhibition sport final yr. It’s an honor to be requested again and much more particular to be competing alongside our championship ladies’s program. The Corridor of Fame all the time places on top-notch occasions, and it’s an thrilling alternative to tackle a high quality opponent and provides our followers an early take a look at this yr’s group.” – Dan Hurley, UConn (males)
“This exhibition sport in opposition to UConn will probably be a terrific alternative for our group with live-game motion through the preseason,” mentioned head coach Earl Grant. “Will probably be good preparation for the upcoming season with a match-up in opposition to a long-time rival and one of many high applications within the nation at Mohegan Solar Area.” – Earl Grant, Boston School (males)
“We’re excited to take part in one other Basketball Corridor of Fame occasion this yr. It’ll be a terrific day for UConn followers to see each the boys’s and ladies’s applications at Mohegan Solar to kick off the 2025-26 season.“ – Geno Auriemma, UConn (ladies)
“Taking part in UConn in an exhibition at Mohegan Solar is a superb expertise for our group. The chance to compete in opposition to the 2025 Nationwide Champions in such a lovely area – the house of the WNBA’s Connecticut Solar – is an unimaginable alternative to develop and enhance.” – Joanna Bernabei-McNamee, Boston School (ladies)
About Mohegan Solar Area
Mohegan Solar Area, one of many busiest sports activities and leisure venues on the planet right this moment, was awarded the 2024 Newsweek Readers’ Alternative award for “Greatest On line casino with Reside Leisure in America.” Mohegan Solar Area was additionally named “Greatest On line casino/Resort Venue of the Yr” on the thirty fifth Annual Pollstar Awards. In 2021, the ten,000-seat area additionally acquired its first “#1 Indoor Area” rating for its measurement on the planet from Pollstar and VenuesNow. Mohegan Solar Area is constantly acknowledged among the many high 5 venues in the US, and in 2021 was named “Innovator of the Yr” by Celeb Entry for its ViacomCBS residency through the pandemic. Lately, the “Most Beloved Venue in America” has additionally been named the “World’s Greatest On line casino Venue” by Better of Hartford Journal and is a seven-time nationwide award winner for “Area of the Yr” by the Academy of Nation Music Awards and G2E Las Vegas. For extra info on concert events and different nice occasions, go to Mohegan Solar. For info on this week’s schedule, name the Leisure and Particular Occasions hotline at 1.888.226.7711.
Concerning the Naismith Basketball Corridor of Fame
Positioned in Springfield, Massachusetts, town the place basketball was born, the Naismith Basketball Corridor of Fame is an impartial nonprofit 501(c)(3) group devoted to selling, preserving, and celebrating the sport of basketball at each stage—women and men, beginner {and professional} gamers, coaches, and contributors—each domestically and internationally. The Corridor of Fame museum is house to greater than 475 inductees and over 40,000 sq. toes of basketball historical past. Practically 200,000 folks go to the Corridor of Fame museum every year to study in regards to the sport, expertise the interactive displays, and take a look at their abilities on the Jerry Colangelo “Court docket of Desires.” Greatest identified for its annual marquee Enshrinement Ceremony honoring the sport’s elite, the Corridor of Fame additionally operates over 70 highschool and collegiate competitions yearly all through the nation and overseas. For extra info on the Basketball Corridor of Fame group, its museum, and occasions, go to hoophall.com and observe @hoophallU.
