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[QUOTE="freescooter, post: 5148930, member: 1023"]
I think Hurley and a number of other coaches in collaboration with their ADs are coming to the conclusion that these events aren’t worth the trouble.  Especially the ones where you need to travel 3000 miles for.  If you are taking a bus to New York to play in one, it might be worth it.  Flying the team, assorted other officials to Maui?  Not so much. In an era of increasing costs these events no longer make much sense.  When they began, you got to open the season against good competition a week before the regular season. There were only a couple. And there was a limit on how many times you could play in them. I think it was once every 4 years.   Maui and the Great Alaska Shootout were the ones I think and both were designed in part to bring big time hoops to less typical locations.  One of the Georgetown teams lost to D3 Chaminade in Maui.  That’s why they are now, incorrectly, still referred to as pre-season tournaments.  Now there are so many of them anyone who wants to get in one probably can.  And they aren’t pre-season nor is there the same limits on participation.  And for UConn, we could probably get any of the teams in Maui to do H-H.  Probably a few would take a one time  game at UConn.
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