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After a landscape-changing announcement on Monday morning of a $50 million NIL agreement between the Big 12 Conference and the Players Era Festival in Las Vegas, Dr. Tom Buning, Chaminade director of athletics, acknowledged they may have to consider the same to keep the Southwest Maui Invitational college basketball tournament that Chaminade hosts annually at the Lahaina Civic Center in the mix of top early-season multi-team event tournament destinations. 

The 2024 Maui Invitational college basketball tournament celebrates its 40th anniversary by returning to the historic Lahaina Civic Center on Maui, Nov. 25-27, 2024. This marks the tournament’s return to Maui for the first time since the 2023 wildfires. Last year’s event was held on Oʻahu.

The Maui Jim Maui Invitational tip-off festivities take place on Saturday, Nov. 23 and Sunday, Nov. 24 for four events: the Hoops Clinic presented by HMSA, the Maui Jim Maui Golf Classic, the HMSA Sun, Surf and Hoops 5K, and An Evening with the Coaches Banquet hosted by ESPN’s Jay Bilas.

Kids clinics will take place on Oʻahu, Lānaʻi and Maui and will feature instruction from Chaminade coaches and players from the men’s and women’s basketball teams. A coaches’ clinic will be held on Lānaʻi.

The Maui Jim Maui Invitational announced a two-day ticket special for Maui residents will take place Friday and Saturday, Sept. 27-28, at four Maui locations.

The 2018 Maui Jim Maui Invitational attracted almost 7,000 visitors and generated $21.99 million in sales statewide.

MIKE KRZYZEWSKI: “Big time game. Both teams played so hard. That was a heck of a win for us. To play this level of game at this time of the year is amazing for us. I thought there two guards are really as good as any two guards in the country.”

STEVE PROHM: “First thing, again, our crowd is phenomenal. This is a great, great event. First time I’ve been out here and the atmosphere, the teams, it’s really a lot of fun. I’m really proud of our guys to respond.”

JALEN MCDANIELS: “Man, it feels great. It just all started on defense picking up full court playing with a lot of energy and just keeping it up.”

Eight teams from the 2017 and 2018 Maui Jim Maui Invitational fields were selected to the 2018 NCAA Tournament as announced by the DI Men’s Basketball Committee

Ticket packages for the 2017 Maui Jim Maui Invitational, which will be held Nov. 20-22 at the Lahaina Civic Center, will go on sale to the public on Aug. 15th.

The top half of the 2017 bracket features competitive games between Marquette and VCU, and Wichita State and California.

Georgetown, North Carolina, Oklahoma State, Oregon, Tennessee, UConn and Wisconsin join host Chaminade as they compete for early-season accolades at the Lahaina Civic Center for the 33rd annual event.

With a total attendance of more than 28,000 over 12 games, the 2015 Maui Jim Maui Invitational generated $17.2 million in visitor spending for the island of Maui according to new data provided by the Hawaiian Tourism Authority.

The University of Hawai’i men’s basketball team sent shockwaves through the college basketball landscape, beating Pittsburgh on Friday night 74-70 in front of a raucous War Memorial Gym crowd.

Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim joked about missing the snow and 20-degree weather back home at Sunday’s Maui Invitational Tournament press conference.

Like a maestro composing a classical three-point masterpiece, Chaminade’s Christophe Varidel finished one point shy of shredding 30 years of college basketball wizardry in Monday’s opening round of the 2013 EA Sports Maui Invitational Tournament at the Lahaina Civic Center.

The University of Hawaii men and women both lost their opening round games in the Western Athletic Conference basketball tournament.

Gonzaga defeated Cincinnati 61-59 in overtime for the 2009 EA Sports Maui Invitational Tournament title.

It will be Maryland vs. Cincinatti and Gonzaga vs. Wisconsin in the semifinals of the EA Sports Maui Invitational.