Oklahoma and Davidson are among teams slated for the Myrtle Beach Invitational at CCU
Oklahoma and Davidson will be among the participants in this year’s Myrtle Beach Invitational college basketball tournament at Coastal Carolina’s HTC Center.
The other six teams participating are Utah State, New Mexico State, Indiana State, East Carolina, Old Dominion and Penn.
The tournament is owned and operated by ESPN Events, which announced on Thursday the participants in its 2021 college basketball tournaments.
The Myrtle Beach Invitational will be held Nov. 18-21, with an off day on Saturday the 20th.
The third annual tournament scheduled for 2020 was canceled because of the coronavirus.
New Mexico State was originally slated to be in the Diamond Head Classic, but is now reportedly coming to CCU.
Utah State and Penn were scheduled to participate in the canceled 2020 tournament, as was Loyola University Chicago, whose 2020 coach Porter Moser is now coaching Oklahoma.
Coastal Carolina played in the tournament in 2019, and because the NCAA only allows a team to participate in a specific tournament once every four years, the Chants aren’t eligible to participate again until 2023.
The first two Myrtle Beach Invitationals have been won by Central Florida in 2018 and 2020 national champion Baylor in 2019.
This story was originally published May 19, 2021 at 3:49 PM.
