Thanksgiving week has meant more than turkey and football on the sports calendar for quite a while now.

Men’s and women’s college basketball programs from Rhode Island tend to scatter for warmer climates, and it’s no different early in the 2025-26 season. San Diego beckons for the Providence men while the Friars women and University of Rhode Island men are headed for Florida.

The Friars men will enjoy a pair of opportunities against power conferences at the Rady Children’s Invitational in California. Providence’s women take on an elite mid-major program in their Emerald Coast Classic opener before a potential meeting with an SEC foe. The Rams men renew acquaintances with an old friend at the ESPN Events Invitational and could follow a path that sees them battle a regional rival, an old A

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