HONOLULU, Hawai'i -- For the first time since the 1999 season, the Indiana State Sycamores will be playing in a non-conference tournament championship game as they have reached the Championship Game of the 2018 Hawaiian Airlines Diamondhead Classic by virtue of an 84-79 victory over UNLV on Sunday afternoon at the Stan Sheriff Center on the campus of the University of Hawai'i.
The Sycamores improved to 8-3 on the season and are now 4-1 all-time in the Diamond Head Classic while UNLV fell 6-5. Indiana State has now won five in a row against the Mountain West Conference -- the longest active streak in the Missouri Valley Conference.