Type: | Paradise Jam |
Gender: | Men's, Women's |
Year: | 2018 |
Season: | 2019 |
Teams: | 8 |
Finalfourarena: | Sports and Fitness Center |
Finalfourcity: | Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands |
Champions: | Kansas State (men's) Kentucky (women's Island) UConn (women's Reef) |
Mop: | Dean Wade, Kansas State (men's) Rhyne Howard, Kentucky (women's Island) Napheesa Collier, UConn (women's Reef) |
The 2018 Paradise Jam was an early-season men's and women's college basketball tournament. The tournament, which began in 2000, was part of the 2018–19 NCAA Division I men's basketball season and 2018–19 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. After a year's absence due to major damage to the Virgin Islands from Hurricane Irma and Hurricane Maria, the tournament returned to the Sports and Fitness Center in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, Kansas State won the men's tournament, in the women's tournament Kentucky won the Island Division and UConn won the Reef Division.
The women's tournament will be played from November 22–24. The women's tournament consists of 8 teams split into two 4-team, round-robin divisions: Island and Reef.