The Acrisure Series is a multiple-team NCAA Division I college basketball tournament played during Thanksgiving week, at Acrisure Arena in Thousand Palms, California. The event includes several on-campus games followed by multiple four-team brackets and stand-alone games contested at Acrisure Arena.
Tournament history +Men's eventsYearDivisionWinnerScoreOpponentOther participantsTournament MVP 2026Acrisure Series solo gameDuke vs Washington State2025Acrisure ClassicIowa59–46Grand CanyonUtah, Ole MissBennett Stirtz, IowaAcrisure Holiday ClassicColorado81–68WashingtonNevada, San FranciscoBangot Dak, ColoradoAcrisure Holiday InvitationalTulsa63–60Northern IowaSan Jose State, Loyola ChicagoMiles Barnstable, TulsaAcrisure InvitationalStanford78–77Saint LouisSanta Clara, MinnesotaBenny Gealer, StanfordAcrisure Series solo gamesCalifornia Baptist76–61San DiegoFresno State76–53Pepperdine2024Acrisure ClassicArizona State68–64Saint Mary'sNew Mexico, USCJoson Sanon, Arizona StateAcrisure Holiday InvitationalSMU77–60Washington StateCalifornia Baptist, Fresno StateBoopie Miller, SMUAcrisure InvitationalWashington76–69Santa ClaraColorado State, TCUGreat Osobor, WashingtonAcrisure Series ShowcaseGrand Canyon78–71Stanford2023Acrisure ClassicArizona74–68Michigan StateAlcorn State, UT ArlingtonKeshad Johnson, ArizonaAcrisure InvitationalHawaiiSan DiegoArkansas State, UT Rio Grande ValleyNoel Coleman, Hawaii Excludes teams that played on-campus games only.
+Women's eventYearDivisionWinnerScoreOpponentOther participantsTournament MVP 2024Acrisure ClassicMichigan State78–70VanderbiltArizona, CaliforniaJulia Ayrault, Michigan State
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2025 NCAA legislation that ended the ban on teams from the same conference participating in the same muti-team event (MTE) created new flexibility in 2025. Multiple brackets of the Acrisure Series could now be treated as a single qualifying MTE. Therefore, teams participating only in on-campus games could play those games against teams in different brackets. Each of the 24 teams (16 playing at Acrisure Arena and eight playing only in on-campus games) participated in three games in the event.
Acrisure Series on-campus games Twenty on-campus games were played among teams participating in the Acrisure Classic, the Acrisure Holiday Classic, the Acrisure Holiday Invitational and the Acrisure Invitational brackets. Each of the 16 teams in the four brackets hosted one on-campus game, and four additional on-campus games were contested among teams not playing at Acrisure Arena.
Game recaps:
Home teams listed second.
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Acrisure Series solo games first bracket California Baptist met San Diego in the first of the 2025 Acrisure Series solo games. Each team also played home games against UC Riverside and Grambling State. UC Riverside hosted Grambling State, creating an MTE in which each team played three games.
On-campus games Game recaps:
Home teams listed second.
Acrisure Arena solo game Game recap:
Acrisure Series solo games second bracket Fresno State met Pepperdine in the second of the 2025 Acrisure Series solo games. Each team also played home games against New Orleans and Stephen F. Austin. New Orleans and Stephen F. Austin did not play each other. Therefore, the qualifying MTE includes only the on-campus games, and the game at Acrisure Arena between Fresno State and Pepperdine was a regular-season neutral-site game. Each participating team played two qualifying MTE games.
On-campus games Game recaps:
Home teams listed second.
Acrisure Arena solo game Game recap:
2024 men's event The 2024 event included 22 teams, 14 of which played games at Acrisure Arena in the Acrisure Classic, the Acrisure Holiday Invitational, the Acrisure Invitational and the Acrisure Series Showcase. The remaining eight teams participated only in on-campus games. Stanford met Grand Canyon in the only Acrisure Series Showcase game played at Acrisure Arena. The other three brackets each included four teams playing at the neutral site and two teams playing on-campus games.
Acrisure Classic Five campus-site games were followed by a four-team bracket at Acrisure Arena. Campus-site games Game recaps:
Home teams listed second.
Neutral-site games All four games at Acrisure Arena were broadcast on truTV.
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Acrisure Holiday Invitational Five campus-site games were followed by a four-team bracket at Acrisure Arena. Campus-site games Game recaps:
Home teams listed second.
Neutral-site games All four games at Acrisure Arena were broadcast on truTV.
Game recaps:
Acrisure Invitational Five campus-site games were followed by a four-team bracket at Acrisure Arena. Campus-site games Game recaps:
Home teams listed second.
Neutral-site games All four games at Acrisure Arena were broadcast on truTV.
Game recaps:
Acrisure Series Showcase Stanford and Grand Canyon met in the Acrisure Series Showcase at Acrisure Arena. In addition, each team hosted both UC Davis and Norfolk State in on-campus games. UC Davis hosted Norfolk State to give each participating team three games. Campus-site games Game recaps:
Home teams listed second.
Neutral-site game Game recap:
2024 women's event The inaugural women's Acrisure Classic was held in 2024. Acrisure Classic All four games were broadcast on truTV.
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2023 The 2023 event comprised the Acrisure Classic and the Acrisure Invitational. Four teams participated in the Acrisure Classic, two of which played on-campus games only; the other two played a stand-alone game at Acrisure Arena. The Acrisure Invitational included four teams, each of which played two games at Acrisure Arena. Acrisure Classic
The 2023 Acrisure Classic featured nationally ranked Arizona and Michigan State. On-campus games were hosted by the team listed second below. Three games were played at campus sites in the days leading up to Thanksgiving, and the event culminated with a nationally televised game on Thanksgiving Day.
On-campus games Game recaps:
Acrisure Arena game Game recap:
Acrisure Invitational
The 2023 Acrisure Invitational featured Arkansas State, Hawaii, San Diego and UT Rio Grande Valley.
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