San Diego got a new major annual sporting event, five years in the making, when Sports San Diego, owned by the SDCCU Holiday Bowl, announced the Rady Children’s Invitational college men’s basketball tournament that will be played over Thanksgiving week each year at UC San Diego’s LionTree Arena.

The inaugural invitational will include the Iowa Hawkeyes, USC Trojans, Seton Hall Pirates, and Oklahoma Sooners on Nov. 23 and 24.

At the media press conference Tuesday morning, it was also announced that the Purdue Boilermakers is the first team for the 2024 tournament.

The games will be streamed on FOX Sports networks. Tip times will be announced at a later date.

Tickets sales for the 2023 invitational are expected to open March 31.