When is UK due to play in the Great Alaskan Shootout again?
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Screw the Alaska shootout, when do we play athletes in action??
I thought they got rid of that tournament? I might be wrong though. Anyways cal hates those early season tournaments.
Sometime after Cal leaves because he hates those tournaments.
USC was the "headliner" last year so no time soon but I get where you're coming from, it was something I always looked forward to as a kid (along with the UKIT). It meant school was on break and Christmas was coming.
Right after that game with the Soviet national team.
nobody plays in that anymore, it used to be just them and Maui so they still got some good teams, now there are too many options to play near the north pole in november
Worthless tournament these days with sub par competition. Cal and UK have found other ways to play better teams early in season without having to go all the way up and out there.
Derick Miller hitting 7 threes in a row was great. Seem i remember us being upset in the alaskan shootout one year.
When the best schools start going back. Some years the talent level was better at the UKIT then there.
Been to Ketchikan, Alaska. It is beautiful there when I visited on a Navy ship. But it was the July 4th weekend, 1972. Never been to the Bahamas.
Wayne ended up taking the experience he gained from that trip and started a career as a professional snowmobile rider.
Never. It is basically a mid-major tournament now. Since Cal has been at UK I think only four Power5 conference teams have even competed in it and includes dreadful Washington St two times.
We are 8-1 all time in the GAS and our lone loss was to National Runner Up Seton Hall in 1988.
JB
We are 8-1 all time in the GAS and our lone loss was to National Runner Up Seton Hall in 1988.
JB
Lost to Seton Hall (who went on to be National Runner-up) in the lone game UK did NOT hit a 3-pointer.
Thought I read somewhere that ESPN ran it into the ground, tourney officials wouldn't play nice with them. I remember listening to WHAS back in Texas during the Title game against Jeff Ruland, Jimmy V and Iona back in '79 or '80.
