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Finals site Sports and Fitness Center
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The 2007 Paradise Jam Tournament was a men and women's preseason college basketball tournament that took place in Saint Thomas at the Sports and Fitness Center. Baylor won the men's division while Connecticut won the women's St. Thomas Division and Wake Forest won the women's St. John Division.
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Women's Tournament
In 2007, the Tournament consisted of one division with four teams, and another division with six teams. The St. John division, with four teams, played a round robin, with each team playing each other on the 22nd, 23rd and 24 November. The St. Thomas division was organized into two sub-divisions, Reef and Island. Three teams were assigned to each, and they played each other in a round robin, with one off day. The results were used to seed the teams, and on the 25th of November, championship games, as well as games for third and fifth place were played.
Participating Teams
St. Thomas Division:
St. John Division:
St. Thomas Division
In the opening rounds, Duke beat Purdue and Temple to go 2–0 in the Reef division, while Connecticut beat Stanford and ODU to go 2–0 in the Island division. The match up between Stanford and Connecticut involved two of the top teams in the nation, with Stanford ranked 4th and UConn 2nd in the nation. The Huskies started out strong, opening up a 22–8 lead and went on to win 66–54. Freshman Maya Moore was the leading scorer with 19 points.
The Duke-Purdue match up also featured two top 25 teams with Duke ranked 8th and Purdue 20th. Duke held Purdue to 29% shooting and won the game 53–41.
The Championship game matched up the two 2–0 teams, Duke and Connecticut. UConn pulled out to a 16-point lead by halftime, and extended the lead by another ten points in the second half. This was the first meeting between the two team since the prior year, when Duke won in overtime in the regional final to deny Connecticut a trip to the Final Four.
St. John Division
In the opening round Wake Forest beat Indiana 55–53, while Texas A&M beat Wichita State 70–36. In the second round Indiana beat Wichita State 64 015054, while Wake Forest beat Texas A&M 53–46.
On the final day, Wake Forest beat Wichita State 54–47 to finish with a 3–0 record and win the 2007 Paradise Jam Championship (St. John). Texas A&M beat Indiana 60–48 to earn the third place finish.