The 2016 Maui Jim Maui Invitational Tournament begins on Monday afternoon. It is perhaps the premier preseason tournament in college hoops, and it has established itself over the years with a host of top-tier teams and moments that’ve gone down in the strip of paradise it resides in.
Leading up the to 2016 Maui Jim Maui Invitational, I was able to talk turkey with Tournament Chairman Dave Odom. Prior to stopping in Maui, Odom was a coach from 1965-2008, coaching at the high school and college level. At the college level he made stops at East Carolina, Wake Forest - where he was both an assistant and a head coach - Virginia as an assistant, and South Carolina where his coaching career concluded in 2008.