Honolulu.

The Buffaloes will play the Blue Demons at 2:30 p.m. at the Stan Sheriff Center. The game will be televised on ESPNU. The eight-team tournament, which takes place Dec. 22-25, is entering its sixth year.

It will be the second-ever match between the two teams and the first in 74 years when CU won 50-37 in the NIT semifinal in 1940.

Other teams in the tournament include George Washington, Hawaii, Loyola Marymount, Ohio, Nebraska and Wichita State.

FORT COLLINS — My story about running back Dee Hart’s arrival and on-field work with the Colorado State Rams at Monday’s first pre-season practice will be online shortly. It includes extensive comments from Hart himself because CSU coach Jim McElwain made an exception to his usual policy of not allowing players in their firstyear in the program to speak to the media.

Kensler joined The Denver Post in 1989 and has covered a variety of beats, including Colorado, Colorado State, golf, Olympics and the Denver Broncos. His brush with greatness: losing in a two-on-two pickup basketball game at Ohio State against two-time Heisman Trophy winner Archie Griffin.

Terry Frei graduated from Wheat Ridge High School in the Denver area and has degrees in history and journalism from the University of Colorado-Boulder. He worked for the Rocky Mountain News while attending CU and joined the Post staff after graduation. He has also worked at the Oregonian in Portland, Ore., and The Sporting News. His seventh book, March 1939: Before the Madness, was issued in February 2014.