It's Thanksgiving week, which means turkey, football, shopping, and of course, a bunch of in-season college basketball tournaments. The Maui Invitational is one of the most well-known of these tournaments, and for the eighth time out of the 39 Maui Invitationals that began in 1984, Kansas is part of the field. They've won the tournament three times, including their two most recent appearances in 2015 and 2019.
In recent years, Kansas hasn't exactly put their best foot forward in these Thanksgiving Invitationals. Last year at Atlantis, Kansas needed a last second outback to scrape past a mediocre Wisconsin team before getting dominated by Tennessee.