{"id":414887,"date":"2026-07-28T06:43:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T06:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/414887\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T06:43:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T06:43:23","slug":"uc-san-diego-to-play-in-2026-acrisure-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/414887\/","title":{"rendered":"UC San Diego to Play in 2026 Acrisure Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                     LA JOLLA, Calif. \u2013 Total Sports Consulting announced today that UC San Diego men&#8217;s basketball will participate in the 2026 Acrisure Series in Palm Desert. This year&#8217;s event will take place Nov. 21 through 26 at Acrisure Arena. Specific opponents and game times, along with ticket and hotel information and broadcast details will be announced in August.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nLast year, under first year head coach Clint Allard, the Tritons won the <a href=\"https:\/\/ucsdtritons.com\/news\/2025\/11\/26\/mens-basketball-tritons-are-espn-invitational-champs.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terry&#8217;s Chocolate ESPN Events Invitational<\/a> at Walt Disney World. In 2024, UC San Diego captured the Boardwalk Battle tournament in Daytona Beach on the way to a Big West title in its first year with Division I postseason eligibility.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAbout UC San Diego Athletics<br \/>\nAfter two decades as one of the most successful\u00a0programs in\u00a0NCAA Division II, the UC San Diego intercollegiate athletics program has begun a new era in\u00a0NCAA Division I. The 24-sport Tritons earned 30 team and nearly 150 individual national championships during its time in\u00a0Divisions\u00a0II\u00a0and III and helped guide\u00a01,400 scholar-athletes to All-America honors. A total of 84 Tritons have earned Academic All-America honors, while 39 have garnered prestigious NCAA Post Graduate Scholarships. UC San Diego scholar-athletes exemplify the academic ideals of one of the world&#8217;s preeminent institutions, graduating at an average rate of 90 percent, the highest rate among public institutions in NCAA Division I or II.\u00a0For more information on the Tritons, visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ucsdtritons.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UCSDtritons.com<\/a>\u00a0or follow UC San Diego Athletics on social media\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ucsdtritons.com\/sports\/2019\/12\/12\/social-media-directory.aspx\" title=\"https:\/\/ucsdtritons.com\/sports\/2019\/12\/12\/social-media-directory.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@UCSDtritons<\/a>.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; LA JOLLA, Calif. \u2013 Total Sports Consulting announced today that UC San&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-414887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}