{"id":42053,"date":"2025-11-07T05:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T05:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/42053\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T05:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T05:55:07","slug":"teams-set-to-play-in-2026-rady-childrens-invitational-revealed-nbc-7-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/42053\/","title":{"rendered":"Teams set to play in 2026 Rady Children\u2019s Invitational revealed \u2013 NBC 7 San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sports San Diego Thursday announced the field for the 2026 Rady Children&#8217;s Invitational, with the 2025 edition just weeks away.<\/p>\n<p>UCLA, Georgetown, Texas and Saint Mary&#8217;s College will compete in the fourth annual two-day college tournament scheduled for Thanksgiving next year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The 2026 Rady Children&#8217;s Invitational lineup is a total showstopper,&#8221; said Mark Neville, CEO of Sports San Diego, the regional sports commission tasked with organizing the Holiday Bowl and other events. &#8220;San Diego will be buzzing with energy as fans from across the country travel here for the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re thrilled to welcome them, along with our loyal local supporters who have helped to make this tournament a sellout in each of its first two years. Tickets are selling quickly again this year, and we can already feel the excitement building across the city.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>University of San Diego will host the tournament in its Jenny Craig Pavilion on Nov. 26-27, 2026. Each day will feature two games, with the championship and third-place matchups on Nov. 27.<\/p>\n<p>The 2025 event takes place Nov. 27-28 with defending NCAA Champions Florida, Providence, TCU and Wisconsin. Past tournament winners include Oklahoma (2023) and Purdue (2024).<\/p>\n<p>Tip-off times for the 2026 event will be announced at a later date.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are on sale now for the 2025 tournament at <a href=\"https:\/\/radychildrensinvitational.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.RadyChildrensInvitational.com<\/a>. For every ticket sold, $5 will be donated to Rady Children&#8217;s Hospital &#8211; San Diego.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sports San Diego Thursday announced the field for the 2026 Rady Children&#8217;s Invitational, with the 2025 edition just&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[23857,74,76,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-42053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-ncaa-basketball","9":"tag-san-diego","10":"tag-san-diego-headlines","11":"tag-san-diego-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42053","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=42053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}