The UConn and Louisville girls’s basketball groups will tip off the 2025-26 season within the Armed Forces Basic at Ramstein Air Base in Germany.
Earlier editions of the occasion have been held since 2012, however the Nov. 4, 2025 recreation introduced Thursday would be the first that includes girls’s hoops.
“We need to do as a lot as we presumably can, each personally and team-wise, to assist our armed forces,” Huskies head coach Geno Auriemma mentioned in a press release. “I am glad we’re getting the chance to go abroad and have a lot of our army members see us play in individual. I do know it’s going to be an expertise of a lifetime for everybody in our program.”
The competition will air on ESPN.
“We’re extraordinarily grateful to be chosen for the 2025 Armed Forces Basic,” Louisville coach Jeff Walz mentioned in a press release. “It is going to be an unimaginable expertise for our gamers and employees to play in entrance of a few of our nation’s heroes abroad. We look ahead to the chance to showcase girls’s basketball on a world stage.”
UConn and Louisville opened the 2024-25 season ranked No. 2 and 17, respectively, within the Related Press preseason Prime 25 ballot.
Ramstein hosted the Armed Forces Basic in 2012 and 2017. Different locales have included South Korea, Puerto Rico, Japan, Hawaii, Alaska and Texas.
–Area Degree Media
