The greatest regular-season event in college basketball is back where it belongs and delivering big-time on Day 1

With Monday’s Maui Invitational headliner between No. 4 Auburn and No. 5 Iowa State — the type of top-five battle typically reserved for another tournament, that much larger one each March — deadlocked at 81 with under a minute to play,

The Maui Invitational begins Monday night at the Lahaina Civic Center in Lahaina, Hawaii, and No. 4 Auburn will compete in one of four high-profile first-round matchups. Auburn's first draw is the No.