UConn returns to Maui in 2016

[aceboon]

To be honest, not really.

Chaminade is the host school, they play in it every year.

 

[8893]

To be honest, not really.

The Maui Invitational Tournament is an annual early-season college basketball tournament that takes place Thanksgiving Week in Lahaina, Hawaii at the Lahaina Civic Center on the island of Maui. It is hosted by Chaminade University of Honolulu, which participates yearly along with a field of seven NCAA Division I men's basketball teams. EA Sports has served as the title sponsor since 2001. The tournament, broadcast by ESPN, began in 1984. It was inspired by a 1982 upset by Chaminade over Virginia, considered by some to be the greatest upset in college basketball history.

The tournament began because of what is considered the greatest upset in the history of college basketball. On December 23, 1982, Chaminade, then an NAIA school and now a NCAA Division II member, defeated the top-ranked Virginia Cavaliers, led by Ralph Sampson, in Hawaii. Shortly after the upset, Virginia head coach Terry Holland congratulated Chaminade's athletic director, Mike Vasconcellos, and suggested to him that he consider beginning a Hawaii tournament. Two years later, the Maui Classic was inaugurated with Chaminade reaching the finals and losing to Providence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maui_Invitational_Tournament

 

[upstater]

Procrastination is a hell of a drug.

Stop procrastinating. Next time post it quicker.

The AP by the way advertised it as "UConn, UNC head the 2016 Maui...."

 

[2north]

To be honest, not really.

Chaminade is the host school, they play in it every year.

Also, UConn may have done ok in it over the years.

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