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Aventura Spa Palace Resort
Playa del Carmen, Mexico
Opened: January 1, 2013
The Aventura Spa Palace Resort is situated between Playa del Carmen and Puerto Aventuras in the heart of the famed Riviera Maya and lies on 85 acres of beautiful grounds, lagoons and pools all facing the Caribbean Sea in Playa del Carmen, Mexico.

In 2010 and 2013, the resort hosted the Cancun Challenge college basketball tournament. The Cancun Challenge, is a tournament organized by Triple Crown Sports which has featured eight NCAA Division I men's basketball teams and ten women's basketball teams. The formats of the men's and women's tournaments have varied from year to year. The men's tournament currently splits the eight teams into two divisions of four and consists of games played in the United States at participants' campus sites followed by a bracketed tournament played in (or near) Cancun, Mexico. The women's tournament splits the ten teams into one division of six and one division of four and each features round-robin play in Cancun with no bracket, and therefore no champion. The two divisions in each tournament are the Riviera Division and the Mayan Division.

The Mexico portion of the event has been held at multiple venues in and around Cancun. The inaugural 2005 tournament was relocated from the Moon Palace Resort to the Aventura Spa Palace Resort in Playa del Carmen shortly before it was scheduled to occur due to damage sustained at the original location from Hurricane Wilma. The tournament was held at one of these two sites each year up until 2014, when it would be moved to the Hard Rock Hotel Riviera Maya, where it has been held since. CBS Sports Network televises the men's Riviera Division games. All Mexico games in the men's Mayan Division along with all women's games are streamed on FloHoops.
Last 10 Games
Date Opponents Result
Nov 27, 2013Georgia Southern @ Presbyterian 76 - 66
Nov 27, 2013Oral Roberts @ Bowling Green 63 - 56
Nov 27, 2013Old Dominion @ Saint Louis 52 - 62
Nov 27, 2013Wisconsin @ West Virginia 70 - 63
Nov 26, 2013Presbyterian @ Bowling Green 45 - 67
Nov 26, 2013Oral Roberts @ Georgia Southern 67 - 65
Nov 26, 2013West Virginia @ Old Dominion 78 - 60
Nov 26, 2013Saint Louis @ Wisconsin 57 - 63
Nov 24, 2010Wyoming @ Providence 77 - 84
Nov 24, 2010Western Illinois @ Prairie View A&M 69 - 63