| Diamond Head Classic | |
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| Logo for this event. | |
| Sport | College basketball |
| Number of teams | 8 |
| Current stadium | Stan Sheriff Center |
| Current location | Honolulu, Hawaii |
| Played | 2009–presemt |
| Current champion | USC |
| Most championships | USC (1) |
| TV partner(s) | ESPNU |
| Official website | diamondheadclassic.com |
The Hawaiian Airlines Diamond Head Classic is a three-day invitational college basketball tournament held at the Stan Sheriff Center in Honolulu, Hawaii on the campus of the University of Hawaii-Manoa. Each team plays three games, winners facing winners and losers facing losers. The Western Athletic Conference serves as the host. The tournament is ESPN owned and operated.
The inaugural tournament was won by USC. It was played December 22–25, 2009, with December 24 being an off day.[1]
2009 tournament[]
Bracket[]
| Quarterfinals, December 22 |
Semifinals, December 23 |
Title, December 25 | |||||||||||
| Northeastern | 67 | ||||||||||||
| St. Mary's | 78 | ||||||||||||
| St. Mary's | 49 | ||||||||||||
| Southern California | 60 | ||||||||||||
| Western Michigan | 51 | ||||||||||||
| Southern California | 55 | ||||||||||||
| Southern California | 67 | ||||||||||||
| 20 | UNLV | 56 | |||||||||||
| SMU | 53 | ||||||||||||
| 20 | UNLV | 67 | |||||||||||
| 20 | UNLV | 77 | |||||||||||
| Hawaii | 53 | ||||||||||||
| Charleston | 71 | ||||||||||||
| Hawaii | 84 | ||||||||||||
| 3rd place consolation, December 25 | |||||
| 1 | St. Mary's | 84 | |||
| 2 | Hawaii | 75 | |||
| 5th-8th place Semifinals, December 23 |
5th place consolation, December 25 | |||||||
| 1 | Northeastern | 60 | ||||||
| 4 | Western Michigan | 75 | ||||||
| Western Michigan | 66 | |||||||
| Charleston | 63 | |||||||
| 2 | SMU | 71 | ||||||
| 3 | Charleston | 72 | ||||||
| 7th place consolation, December 25 | |||||
| 1 | Northeastern | 73 | |||
| 2 | SMU | 62 | |||