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What Is It?
How Long Has This Event Been Around?
Here’s the tweaked history piece from last season’s primer, though the last two sentences don’t quite apply this season, for reasons I’ll get into shortly.
The first Maui Invitational took place in 1984 with Davidson, Providence, and Virginia joining host Chaminade, then in the NAIA, now in the Division II's PacWest Conference.