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Your right but with the ACC being a 15 team conference its tough to get a good preseason tournament each year.
Plus, Boeheim doesn't probably want to play any tournament outside the East Coast after the 2013 Maui tournament.
Hopefully Hopkins with his West Coast ties won't mind more national tournament.
I'm not sure what you mean since we WON in Maui in 2013. I know cause I was there and my profile picture on Facebook was of me standing next to Juli Boeheim with a big smile on both our faces because she INSISTED my friend take the picture with both of us rather than just me snapping her. (We had met a few times at the BE tournament, and she is the nicest person you could want to meet. Coach Hop too. My room was next to his and he was his usual overly modest self and I'm afraid I was rude to Coach Autry because Hop was talking about how wonderful a player Coach Autry was and I told him that he wasn't exactly small potatoes either, for which I got a high 5 from Coach Hop and took my leave.)
Somehow I don't think Mrs B will mind that she has been replaced on FB etc by the pictures of myself with President Obama...
But my point is that we will have to wait probably another 3 seasons before being invited back to Maui. EVERYONE wants to play there and it's just one team per conference per year.
And just to show that my memory is correct, here is the Wikipedia page for the 2013 Maui Tournament with the CHAMPION clearly stated.
2013 Maui Invitational Tournament - Wikipedia
And oh my, speaking of Wikipedia, look at who won the 2015 Battle 4 Atlantis tournament in the Bahamas????? Which I WOULD have attended if I hadn't already been on SS disablity for about 5 months and just couldn't swing financially.
Battle 4 Atlantis - Wikipedia
So the notion that JB is afraid of playing the big tournaments is garbage. Unless you were being facetious, Alsacs. Sorry that the Bahamas is more or less in the Eastern Time Zone.