Great Alaska Shootout

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The Great Alaska Shootout (originally known as the Sea Wolf Classic) is an annual college basketball tournament in Anchorage, Alaska that features colleges from all over the United States. The University of Alaska Anchorage hosts the tournament every Thanksgiving. Tournament games are played at Sullivan Arena in Anchorage. Prior to the Sullivan Arena opening in 1983, games were played at Buckner Fieldhouse. The men's tournament, held annually since 1978, includes eight teams while the women's tournament, held annually since 1980, has four participants.

Under NCAA rules teams are normally limited to 28 regular season games, however games in "exempted events", traditionally played early in the season, are not counted against that limit. The most recent policy from the NCAA in this regard allows all teams to play in one exempted event per season. Those teams who choose to take advantage of that opportunity may play up to thirty-one games per season, including games played in those exempted events but excluding postseason tournament games. A previous incarnation of this rule allowed for all games played outside the United States mainland to be exempt from the (then) twenty-seven game limit. This version of the rule was partially responsible for the genesis of tournaments such as the Great Alaska Shootout.

The men's tournament field has included at least one team which would qualify for the NCAA Division I tournament later in the season during each of its 29 editions. The 1985 field included an event record six teams that would go on to be invited to the NCAA tournament. Five times the tournament field has included the defending NCAA Champion, most recently in 1996 when the University of Kentucky took part in the tournament.

The 2007 men's tournament (scheduled for November 20 through November 24) featured Butler, Eastern Washington, Gonzaga, Michigan, Texas Tech, Virginia Tech, Western Kentucky, and host school Alaska Anchorage. Yale, Xavier, Washington State, and Liberty had all agreed to play in the tournament but subsequently dropped out. Bradley, Cleveland State, Santa Clara and defending champion Alaska Anchorage comprised the 2007 women's field.

Contents 1 Past Tournament Champions, Runners Up, and MVPs 1.1 Men's Tournament 1.2 Women's Tournament 2 2007 Men's tournament field 3 2007 Women's tournament field 4 External links

[edit] Past Tournament Champions, Runners Up, and MVPs

[edit] Men's Tournament

Year	Winner	Score	Opponent	Tournament MVP
1978	North Carolina State	72-66	Louisville	Clyde Austin, North Carolina State
1979	Kentucky	57-50	Iona	Jeff Ruland, Iona
1980	North Carolina	64-58	Arkansas	Scott Hastings, Arkansas
1981	Southwest Louisiana	81-64	Marquette	Steve Burtt, Iona
1982	Louisville	80-70	Vanderbilt	Lancaster Gordon, Louisville
1983	North Carolina State	65-60	Arkansas	Joe Kleine, Arkansas
1984	UAB	50-46	Kansas	Steve Mitchell, UAB
1985	North Carolina	65-60	UNLV	Brad Daugherty, North Carolina
1986	Iowa	103-80	Northeastern	Roy Marble, Iowa
1987	Arizona	80-69	Syracuse	Sean Elliott, Arizona
1988	Seton Hall	92-81	Kansas	Chris Mills, Kentucky
1989	Michigan State	73-68	Kansas State	Steve Smith, Michigan State
1990	UCLA	89-74	Virginia	Don MacLean, UCLA
1991	Massachusetts	68-56	New Orleans	Jim McCoy, Massachusetts
1992	New Mexico State	95-94	Illinois	Sam Crawford, New Mexico State
1993	Purdue	88-73	Portland	Glenn Robinson, Purdue
1994	Minnesota	79-74	Brigham Young	Townsend Orr, Minnesota
1995	Duke	88-81	Iowa	Ray Allen, Connecticut
1996	Kentucky	92-65	College of Charleston	Ron Mercer, Kentucky
1997	North Carolina	73-69	Purdue	Antawn Jamison, North Carolina
1998	Cincinnati	77-75	Duke	William Avery, Duke
1999	Kansas	84-70	Georgia Tech	Drew Gooden, Kansas
2000	Syracuse	84-62	Missouri	Preston Shumpert, Syracuse
2001	Marquette	72-63	Gonzaga	Dwyane Wade, Marquette
2002	College of Charleston	71-69	Villanova	Troy Wheless, College of Charleston
2003	Purdue	78-68	Duke	Kenneth Lowe, Purdue
2004	Washington	79-76	Alabama	Nate Robinson, Washington
2005	Marquette	92-89 (OT)	South Carolina	Steve Novak, Marquette
2006	California	78-70	Loyola Marymount	Ryan Anderson, California
2007	Butler	81-71	Texas Tech	Mike Green, Butler

[edit] Women's Tournament

Year	Winner	Score	Opponent	Tournament MVP
1980	Iowa	73-52	Alaska Anchorage	Cindy Haugejorde, Iowa
1981	San Diego State	50-41	Houston	Diena Pels, San Diego State
1982	Minnesota	70-66	Indiana	Laura Coenen, Minnesota
1983	Old Dominion	76-53	Wichita State	Lorri Bauman, Drake
1984	Texas	82-60	UNLV	Annette Smith, Texas
1985	Louisiana Tech	88-69	Penn State	Dawn Royster, North Carolina
1986	Northeast Louisiana	70-68	Southern Cal	Lisa Ingram, Northeast Louisiana
1987	New Orleans	84-61	Memphis State	Kunshinge Sorrell, Mississippi State
1988	South Carolina	98-97 (OT)	UNLV	Martha Parker, South Carolina
1989	Stephen F. Austin	96-81	Old Dominion	Connie Cole, Stephen F. Austin
1990	Alaska Anchorage	88-87	South Alabama	Diane Dobrich, Alaska Anchorage
1991	Northern Illinois	63-60	Louisville	Lisa Foss, Northern Illinois
1992	Penn State	83-62	Missouri-Kansas City	Susan Robinson, Penn State
1993	Hawaii	N/A1	SMU	Valerie Agee, Hawaii
19942	Rhode Island	N/A1	Northeast Louisiana	Dayna Smith, Rhode Island
19942	Clemson	79-62	UCLA	Tara Saunooke, Clemson
1995	South Carolina	83-71	Arizona State	Shannon Johnson, South Carolina
1996	Georgia	72-55	Oregon	Tracy Henderson, Georgia
1997	Tennessee	87-66	Wisconsin	Chamique Holdsclaw, Tennessee
1998	No Tournament
1999	Kansas	78-68	Louisville	Lynn Pride, Kansas
2000	Ohio State	95-60	Rhode Island	Jaime Lewis, Ohio State
2001	Iowa	90-73	Gonzaga	Lindsey Meder, Iowa
2002	Nevada	68-56	Indiana	Laura Ingham, Nevada
2003	Alaska Anchorage	61-58	Clemson	Kamie Jo Massey, Alaska Anchorage
2004	Stanford	67-47	Louisiana-Lafayette	Candice Wiggins, Stanford
2005	Central Connecticut State	69-65 (OT)	Arizona	Gabriella Guegbelet, Central Connecticut State
2006	Alaska Anchorage	78-70	UC Riverside	Rebecca Kielpinski, Alaska Anchorage
2007	Alaska Anchorage	52-50	Santa Clara	Rebecca Kielpinski, Alaska Anchorage

¹Tournament was played in a round robin format.
²The tournament was moved to earlier in the season beginning in the 1994-95 season; hence the first 1994 tournament corresponds to the 1993-94 season and the second tournament to the 1994-95 season.

[edit] 2007 Men's tournament field

• November 21-24: Sullivan Arena, Anchorage

Number of asterisks denotes number of overtime periods played.

	Quarter-final					Semi-final					Final
	23	Butler	79
		Michigan	65
						23	Butler	84*
							Virginia Tech	78
		Eastern Washington	52
		Virginia Tech	69
											23	Butler	81
												Texas Tech	71
		Texas Tech	74
		Alaska Anchorage	47
							Texas Tech	73
						14	Gonzaga	63
		Western Kentucky	71
	14	Gonzaga	74

	3rd Place game
		Virginia Tech	64
	14	Gonzaga	82

	Loser's Bracket					5th Place Game
		Michigan	61
		Eastern Washington	53
							Michigan	69
							Western Kentucky	73
		Western Kentucky	71
		Alaska Anchorage	67

	7th Place game
		Eastern Washington	64
		Alaska Anchorage	62

[edit] 2007 Women's tournament field

• November 20-21: Sullivan Arena, Anchorage

Number of asterisks denotes number of overtime periods played.

	Semi-Final					Final
		Cleveland State	72
		Alaska Anchorage	80*
							Alaska Anchorage	52
							Santa Clara	50
		Bradley	61
		Santa Clara	69

	3rd Place game
		Cleveland State	82
		Bradley	61

[edit] External links

• Great Alaska Shootout home page
• Shootout.Net - Your Online Ticket

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