{"id":43874,"date":"2019-07-17T15:01:16","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T19:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=43874"},"modified":"2019-07-17T15:01:30","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T19:01:30","slug":"7th-annual-gulf-coast-showcase-mens-womens-pairings-feature-seven-ncaa-tournament-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2019\/07\/7th-annual-gulf-coast-showcase-mens-womens-pairings-feature-seven-ncaa-tournament-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"7TH ANNUAL GULF COAST SHOWCASE MEN\u2019S &#038; WOMEN\u2019S PAIRINGS FEATURE SEVEN NCAA TOURNAMENT TEAMS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Gulf-coast-showcase.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43875\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Gulf-coast-showcase.png 512w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Gulf-coast-showcase-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Gulf-coast-showcase-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Seven teams that competed in the 2019 NCAA Tournament will be among the 16 men\u2019s and women\u2019s teams competing in the seventh annual Gulf Coast Showcase on Thanksgiving week at Hertz Arena. Murray State, which won the Ohio Valley Conference and beat Marquette in the First Round of the NCAA Tournament, and Northeastern, champs of the CAA, headline the men\u2019s field while Arizona State, Auburn, Drake, Gonzaga and Maine are teams in the women\u2019s field that went dancing last March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt has been so rewarding to watch this event mature since we first launched in 2013 and that maturity is never more evident than seeing eight programs returning to the Gulf Coast Showcase for the second time, \u201c said Brooks Downing, whose company bdG Sports manages the annual event. \u201cIt is a testament to our partners at Hertz Arena, our first-class headquarter\u2019s hotel at Hyatt Regency Coconut Point, the beautiful beaches of Fort Myers and the southern hospitality that Southwest Florida offers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Gulf Coast Showcase men\u2019s tournament, created specifically for mid-major programs only, tips on Monday, Nov. 25 with the following pairings:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>11 a.m. ET \u2013 Northeastern vs. South Alabama<\/li><li>1:30 p.m. ET \u2013 Drake vs. Miami (OH)<\/li><li>5 p.m. ET \u2013 Wright State vs. Weber State<\/li><li>7:30 p.m. ET \u2013 Murray State vs. La Salle&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Game times for Tuesday and Wednesday will be the same with semifinal games on Nov. 26 at 5:00\/7:30. Wednesday\u2019s championship game will tip at 7:30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After a day-off on Thanksgiving, the women\u2019s tournament tips on Friday, Nov. 29 with the following match-ups:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>11 a.m. ET \u2013 Auburn vs. Middle Tennessee&nbsp;<\/li><li>1:30 p.m. ET \u2013 Gonzaga vs. Dayton<\/li><li>5 p.m. ET \u2013 Arizona State vs. Maine<\/li><li>7:30 p.m. ET \u2013 Drake vs. Purdue&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Game times for Saturday and Sunday will be the same as the men\u2019s tournament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the fifth consecutive year, the tournament will support the Golisano Children\u2019s Hospital of Southwest Florida. The hospital is the only children\u2019s hospital between Tampa and Miami and provides vital health care for the region\u2019s sick and injured children and their families. The hospital\u2019s facility provides 300,000 square feet of space, 128 pediatric and NICU beds with space to expand to 160 beds, a 17-bay emergency department, a freestanding pediatric pharmacy and in-hospital school classroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ticket and Fan Travel Information<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tickets for the 2019 Gulf Coast Showcase go on public sale on Monday, July 22 at HertzArena.com or through Ticketmaster. All-Tournament passes for either the men\u2019s tournament or women\u2019s tournament are available for $74, $99 or $149 per tournament with single session tickets ranging from $10 General Admission to $45 Courtside for each two-game session. Each day of the tournament will feature an afternoon session (starting at 11 a.m.) and evening session (5 p.m.) and tickets will be good for both games of a given session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fan travel information, including preferred hotel rates at the official tournament resort hotel \u2013 the Hyatt Regency Coconut Point \u2013 is available on&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gulfcoastshowcase.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.GulfCoastShowcase.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Campus Games Schedule<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to the tournament games in Southwest Florida, participating teams will play an additional game at home sites. The schedule for games at home sites is as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Nov. 19 \u2013 West Coast Baptist @ Weber State<\/li><li>Nov. 19 \u2013 Springhill @ South Alabama<\/li><li>Nov. 20 \u2013 Urbana @ Wright State<\/li><li>Nov. 20 \u2013 Central State @ Miami (OH)<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven teams that competed in the 2019 NCAA Tournament will be among the 16 men\u2019s and women\u2019s teams competing in the seventh annual Gulf Coast Showcase on Thanksgiving week at&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":43875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43874"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}