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1998 Maui Invitational

collegiate basketball tournament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ60527855 ↗
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The 1998 Maui Invitational Tournament was an early-season college basketball tournament that was played, for the 15th time, from November 23 to November 25, 1998. The tournament, which began in 1984, was part of the 1998-99 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The tournament was played at the Lahaina Civic Center in Maui, Hawaii and was won by the Syracuse Orange. It was the second title for both the program and for its head coach Jim Boeheim.

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“1998 Maui Invitational” enters the record as collegiate basketball tournament. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Maui, Invitational and collegiate can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1998, 1984—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Maui, Invitational and collegiate.
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This entry incorporates text from “1998 Maui Invitational” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.