Puerto Rico Tip-Off compete in the 2017 Puerto Rico Tip-Off was unveiled on July 26, 2017. Due to the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, the 2017 tournament took place at the HTC Center on the campus of Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina. The 2016 tournament took place at HP Field House in Orlando, Florida due to a Zika virus outbreak in Puerto Rico, and tenmporarily was renamed the Tire Pros Invitational Tournament. ‡ tournament record for most points scored in a game Puerto Rico Tip-Off The Puerto Rico Tip-Off is preseason college basketball tournament owned and operated by ESPN Regional Television that
History of the Jews in Puerto Rico cultural, linguistic, racial, and historic similarities to Cuba. Puerto Rican Jews have made many contributions in multiple fields, including business, commerce, education, and entertainment. Puerto Rico has the largest and richest Jewish community in the Caribbean, with over 3,000 Jewish inhabitants. It is also the only Caribbean island in which all three major Jewish denominations—Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform—are represented. According to historians, the first Jews to arrive in Puerto Rico were "conversos", Jews who were forced to convert to Catholicism and were members of Christopher Columbus' crew during his second voyage on November 19, 1493 to the so-called "New World".