Dayton announced Thursday it will be part of the 2020 Myrtle Beach Invitational. The field also includes Charlotte, Loyola, Missouri, Nebraska, Penn, Pittsburgh and Utah State. Four of those teams are currently in the top 100 of the Ken Pomeroy ratings: Missouri, Dayton, Pittsburgh and Utah State.
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The games will be played the week before Thanksgiving — Nov. 19, 20 and 22 — at the HTC Center on the campus of Coastal Carolina University in Conway, S.C.
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Four of the teams in the field are currently in the top 100 of the Ken Pomeroy ratings: No. 33 Missouri, No. 48 Utah State, No. 53 Dayton and No. 82 Pittsburgh. Utah State is the only team in the field that played in the NCAA tournament last season. Penn, Missouri and Loyola played in the NCAA tournament in 2018.
One potential storyline for Dayton would be center Jordy Tshimanga, who will be a redshirt senior next year, playing against his former school, Nebraska.
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The 2020 tournament will be the third Myrtle Beach Invitational. The 2019 tournament, which begins Thursday, includes Baylor, Coastal Carolina, Middle Tennessee, Mississippi State, Ohio, Tulane, Utah and Villanova.
Dayton leaves Friday for the Maui Invitational and plays Georgia in the first round at 2:30 p.m. Monday.
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