Lahaina, Hawaii — I’ll try to blog as much as I can over the next few days to give you a little flavor from the event. It’s really a cool thing because the Maui Invitational really overwhelms the community here, and everywhere you go people are wearing T-shirts from their school. At dinner last night, all our waiter wanted to talk about was basketball.

The trip was pretty uneventful, but definitely long. It was about 12 hours from takeoff in Memphis to touchdown in Maui. And because I’d only gotten about four hours of sleep Thursday night after the Jackson State game, I was really tired when I got here.

It goes without saying the scenery here is beautiful, the weather is great and starting Monday, the basketball will be phenomenal. Memphis is staying at the Sheraton Maui Resort. It’s also the headquarters for Purdue.

Tonight, players and coaches from all the teams are going to be attending a party. I’ll be there and will try to give you some details from that. Tomorrow (Sunday), there are going to be press conferences and practices.