According to the NCAA, three significant factors will prevent the Badgers from competing against Florida, Kansas, and Providence in the 2025 major in-season tournament.

The Wisconsin Badgers are set to participate in the 2025 Rady Children’s Invitational in San Diego, the school announced on Thursday, joining a loaded pool that includes the Kansas Jayhawks, Florida Gators, and Providence Friars.

Here’s what the program said in a statement:

“Wisconsin will compete at the 2025 Rady Children’s Invitational tournament in San Diego, along with Florida, Kansas, and Providence, as announced by Sports San Diego officials on Thursday.

“The third annual Rady Children’s Invitational tournament will be held November 27-28, 2025, tipping off Thanksgiving Day. Each day features two games, with the championship and third-place games taking place on November 28. Tip times will be announced at a later date. All tournament games will air nationally on either FOX or FS1.

“Quite simply this is an amazing field,” said Mark Neville, CEO of Sports San Diego. “It was our goal to bring top college basketball teams to our event and these teams fit that mold. We can’t wait for next year.”

Wisconsin has participated in a non-conference November tournament in 17 of the last 19 seasons, including this year, as the Badgers are headed to the Greenbrier Tip-Off this weekend, where they’ll face off against the UCF Knights on Friday and either the Pitt Panthers or LSU Tigers on Sunday.

Senior guard Max Klesmit spoke about the value of the in-season tournaments ahead of this weekend, pointing to the value from a team perspective, as it gives a good outlook of where the Badgers stand early in the year in a different environment.

“I think it’s a pretty good team bonding experience, you know what I mean? Last year when we went to Fort Myers. I mean, we got to go to Florida, so that was a lot of fun to kind of see the sun,” Klesmit said. “You get to know a lot about each other early on kind of in that I look at it as like a tournament mindset, [kind] of going to a neutral site where fans will be traveling from wherever their college or university is coming from. So, I think it’s a good kind of early test to see how it’s going to be at a neutral floor.

“There’s no really home court advantage or something like that kind of everybody has to bring their own energy, whether that’s on the bench, the five guys on the floor. You kind of learn more about one another and who really loves to kind of just play basketball at that point and can kind of go out there and not need a crowd to rile them up or a momentum swing play to kind of happen to get them going.”

Wisconsin has fared well during these in-season tournaments, going 30-13 since 2005, while winning six different holiday tournaments in that span.

They’ll now get a big opportunity here next year as four talented teams will make the trip over to the West Coast for the Thanksgiving showdown.