Season | 2019–20 | ||||
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Teams | 8 | ||||
Finals site | Sports and Fitness Center Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands | ||||
Champions | Nevada (men's) Louisville (women's Island) South Carolina (women's Reef) | ||||
MVP | Jalen Harris, Nevada (men's) Dana Evans Louisville (women's Island) Aliyah Boston, South Carolina (women's Reef) | ||||
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The 2019 Paradise Jam was an early-season men's and women's college basketball tournament. The tournament, which began in 2000, was part of the 2019-20 NCAA Division I men's basketball season and 2019-20 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The tournament was played at the Sports and Fitness Center in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, Nevada won the men's tournament defeating Bowling Green. in the women's tournament South Carolina won the women's Reef division, and Louisville won the Island division.
* – Denotes overtime period
Non-bracketed games | |||
November 15 | |||
Fairmount State | 66 | ||
Bowling Green | 88 | ||
November 27 | |||
Trinity Christian | 71 | ||
Valparaiso | 98 | ||
5th Place Game November 25 | Consolation 2nd Round November 24 | First Round November 22 | Semifinals November 23 | Championship November 25 | ||||||||||||||
Valparaiso | 78 | |||||||||||||||||
Grand Canyon | 74 | |||||||||||||||||
Grand Canyon | 58 | Valparaiso | 59 | |||||||||||||||
Fordham | 70 | Nevada | 84 | |||||||||||||||
Fordham | 60 | |||||||||||||||||
Nevada | 74 | |||||||||||||||||
Fordham | 64 | Bowling Green | 62 | |||||||||||||||
Western Kentucky | 69 | Nevada | 77 | |||||||||||||||
Illinois State | 65 | |||||||||||||||||
Cincinnati | 66 | |||||||||||||||||
7th Place Game | Illinois State | 69 | Cincinnati | 84* | 3rd Place Game | |||||||||||||
Western Kentucky | 83 | Bowling Green | 91 | |||||||||||||||
Grand Canyon | 68 | Bowling Green | 77 | Cincinnati | 81* | |||||||||||||
Illinois State | 63 | Western Kentucky | 75 | Valparaiso | 77 | |||||||||||||
[2] The women's tournament was played from November 28–20. The women's tournament consists of 8 teams split into two 4-team, round-robin divisions: Island and Reef.
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The U.S. Virgin Islands Paradise Jam is a NCAA college basketball tournament that takes place annually in late November. The men's tournament typically takes place the week before Thanksgiving, with the women's tournament occurring during Thanksgiving week. It is held in St. Thomas at the Sports and Fitness Center on the campus of the University of the Virgin Islands. Colorado State is the defending men's champion. Texas A&M and Arizona are the defending women's champions in the Reef and Island divisions, respectively.
The tenth annual 2009 US Virgin Islands Paradise Jam was a women's basketball tournament that took place November 26–28, 2009. Eight teams from the NCAA were invited to participate in the tournament. The teams were separated into two brackets, the Reef Division and the Island Division. The Reef Division consisted of Mississippi State, Rutgers, Southern California and Texas. The Island Division consisted of Notre Dame, Oklahoma, San Diego State and South Carolina
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The 2014 Paradise Jam was an early-season men's and women's college basketball tournament. The tournament, which began in 2000, was part of the 2014-15 NCAA Division I men's basketball season and 2014-15 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The tournament was played at the Sports and Fitness Center in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, Seton Hall won the men's tournament, in the women's tournament Florida Gulf Coast won the Island Division and Kentucky won the women's Reef Division.
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The 2012 Paradise Jam was an early-season men's and women's college basketball tournament. The tournament, which began in 2000, was part of the 2011-12 NCAA Division I men's basketball season and 2011-12 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The tournament was played at the Sports and Fitness Center in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, New Mexico won the men's tournament, in the women's tournament Connecticut won the women's Island Division and South Carolina won the women's Reef Division.
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The 2017 Paradise Jam was an early-season men's and women's college basketball tournament. The tournament, which began in 2000, was part of the 2017-18 NCAA Division I men's basketball season and 2017-18 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The tournaments are normally held at Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands at the Sports and Fitness Center on the campus of the University of the Virgin Islands. However, due to major damage to the Virgin Islands from Hurricane Irma and Hurricane Maria, the tournaments were moved to the U.S. mainland. Tournament organizers solicited hosting bids from all schools in the men's and women's tournaments, with each tournament originally intended to be awarded to one of its participating schools. The substitute host for on September 29, 2017 it was announced that the Vines Center on the campus of Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, would host the men's tournament. On October 4, The women's tournament which is organized into two separate four team round four-team tournaments, was The Reef division will be held at the Charles E. Smith Center on the campus of George Washington University in Washington, D.C., while the Island division will be held at Titan Field House on the campus of Eastern Florida State College in Melbourne, Florida. Colorado won the men's tournament, in the women's tournament West Virginia won the Island Division and Syracuse won the Reef Division.
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