University of Alaska-Anchorage Basketball (CH2K8)

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NCAA Tournament 1st Round
Ford Field
Detroit, MI

UNLV Rebels at Alaska-Anchorage Seawolves
Mar 20, 2009	1ST	2ND	SCORE
#9 UNLV (19-12)	38	43	81
#8 Alaska-Anchorage (28-4)	36	51	87

UNLV Rebels
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Galloway	22	3-8	0-2	0-0	1	6	2	0	2	6
Bograkos	23	9-14	3-6	0-0	5	2	1	1	0	21
Crisp	24	8-14	3-5	2-2	2	2	0	0	1	21
Hope	22	5-6	0-1	0-0	5	0	1	1	0	10
Kane	18	4-7	0-0	2-2	6	1	1	2	0	10
BENCH	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Naymick	13	2-2	1-1	2-2	1	8	0	0	3	7
Hannan	2	0-1	0-1	0-0	0	1	0	0	0	0
McGuire	11	1-2	0-0	2-2	0	2	0	0	0	4
Ba	5	1-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	1	2
Draughan	-- DID NOT PLAY --
Dobbins	-- DID NOT PLAY --
Rollins	-- DID NOT PLAY --
TEAM TOTALS		33-55	7-16	8-8	20	22	5	4	7	81
TEAM TOTALS		33-55	7-16	8-8	20	22	5	4	7	81

Alaska-Anchorage Seawolves
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Murry	25	1-2	0-0	2-3	0	7	2	0	1	4
Spears	25	2-6	1-5	2-2	1	1	0	0	0	7
Luz	22	2-6	2-5	0-0	3	0	0	0	2	6
Wilkins	22	7-11	0-0	2-3	3	3	2	0	2	16
Atkinson	21	14-19	0-0	6-7	9	2	0	0	1	34
BENCH	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Herman	3	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	2	1	0	1	0
Peavy	9	1-1	0-0	0-0	0	1	1	0	0	2
Borders	4	2-2	0-0	0-0	0	2	1	0	0	4
Taft	9	7-8	0-0	0-0	2	1	0	0	0	14
Scalzo	-- DID NOT PLAY --
Marsh	-- DID NOT PLAY --
Wagner	-- DID NOT PLAY --
TEAM TOTALS		36-55	3-10	12-15	18	19	7	0	7	87

Tovarich: Awesome recovery from an awful and nervous start. The big guys were incredible. We didn't do everything well, but we finished down low. We're so far ahead of schedule it's hard to believe. I thought it might take 5-10 years to get to a tournament game, let alone win one. It's been much easier than I thought.

Reporter: Even if you lost, was it a big deal just to get here?

Tovarich: You have to go back to 1991 for a reason for an independent to be in. And that was DePaul, so they were an established program who just so happened not to have a conference at the time. But the challenges of getting a roster together too. These guys play way over their heads so far as what they're supposed to be on paper.

Reporter: What changed at halftime?

Tovarich: I'm not even sure it was halftime. It was just the awful start we had to be down 14-4, turning the ball over, missing easy shots, etc. But everything did seem to turn around at halftime too. They went from 0-6 on 3's to 7-10 after the half. FT's were 6-1 for them in the firt half, then 17-2 for us, though 4 of those were intentional there at the end, so call it 13-2. Rebounding got better too. We went from 13-8 down to winning 10-7 on the boards. There weren't many misses in the second half, so rebounds were scarce. Both teams shot like crazy. Ours were overwhelmingly from 1 foot away unlike their barrage of 3's, but all those FT's finally that we weren't getting in the first half were huge.

Reporter: Assuming nothing crazy, what do you know about Duke for the 2nd round?

Tovarich: Nothing yet. We'll glance over the roster. As much as we did right today, I suspect that wouldn't even be close to good enough. We'll need to hit 3's better. We'll do our best to hang in there on the boards. We'll try to draw fouls. We were even in turnovers. That might be a first for us. We almost always win that. We have to again for sure. We might have to be near perfect. We certainly can't come out and get down 10 in 3 minutes and get desperate.

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NCAA Tournament
Play-in
Tennessee State 80 Furman 51

East
1st Round
#1 Connecticut 85 #16 Tennessee State 53
#9 Boston College 87 #8 St. Mary's 66
#5 Indiana 81 #12 Alabama A&M 78
#13 UMKC 75 #4 Georgia 71

#6 Notre Dame 97 #11 Air Force 44
#3 Washington 81 #14 St. Peter's 54
#7 Wisconsin 67 #10 Illinois State 50
#2 Villanova 132 #15 Northwestern State 73

West
#1 Michigan State 65 #16 St. Joseph's 63
#9 La Salle 82 #8 Kansas State 63
#5 Gonzaga 74 #12 New Hampshire 60
#4 Memphis 75 #13 Stony Brook 53

#6 Pittsburgh 78 #11 San Diego 52
#3 North Carolina 95 #14 Louisiana Tech 71
#10 Florida 69 #7 Rutgers 55
#2 Arizona 77 #15 Northern Arizona 55

South
#1 Duke 91 #16 Dartmouth 64
#8 Alaska-Anchorage 87 #9 UNLV 81
#5 Oklahoma State 81 #12 Charlotte 77
#4 Tennessee 68 #13 Miami Ohio 67

#6 Western Michigan 72 #11 Wisconsin-Green Bay 69
#3 Auburn 92 #14 Winthrop 66
#7 Alabama 75 #10 Temple 69
#2 Louisiana State 62 #15 Delaware State 52

Midwest
#1 Louisville 81 #16 Coastal Carolina 56
#8 Clemson 81 #9 Southern California 74
#5 Texas 87 #12 Creighton 75
#4 Providence 98 #13 Cal Davis 63

#11 West Virginia 83 #6 Miami Florida 74
#3 Stanford 70 #14 American 59
#10 Marshall 68 #7 Arizona State 61
#2 UCLA 83 #15 San Jose State 57

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NCAA Tournament 2nd Round
Ford Field
Detroit, MI

Alaska-Anchorage Seawolves at Duke Blue Devils
Mar 22, 2009	1ST	2ND	SCORE
#8 Alaska-Anchorage (28-5)	31	37	68
#1 Duke (30-3)	41	39	80

Alaska-Anchorage Seawolves
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Murry	23	2-3	0-1	1-2	1	2	3	0	2	5
Spears	22	2-9	1-6	0-0	1	5	0	0	0	5
Luz	22	2-4	2-4	1-2	2	2	1	0	1	7
Wilkins	19	4-9	0-2	2-2	8	0	3	0	1	10
Atkinson	18	8-14	0-0	10-11	3	2	0	0	2	26
BENCH	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Herman	7	1-2	1-1	0-0	0	1	0	0	0	3
Peavy	10	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	1	0	0	2	0
Borders	6	1-1	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	2
Taft	12	5-8	0-0	0-0	1	1	2	0	0	10
Scalzo	-- DID NOT PLAY --
Marsh	-- DID NOT PLAY --
Wagner	-- DID NOT PLAY --
TEAM TOTALS		25-50	4-14	14-17	17	14	9	0	8	68

Duke Blue Devils
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Lewandowski	21	7-10	4-4	0-0	1	6	3	0	2	18
Helms	21	6-10	1-3	0-0	0	2	0	0	0	13
Robertson	23	7-12	1-2	0-0	7	2	1	1	2	15
Summers	26	3-7	0-0	1-4	9	4	1	0	1	7
Phillips	18	3-4	0-0	3-4	3	2	1	1	1	9
BENCH	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Tran	10	0-1	0-1	0-0	0	8	2	0	2	0
McCullough	9	5-6	4-5	0-0	2	1	0	0	1	14
Schiffner	12	1-1	0-0	2-2	3	0	0	1	0	4
Munns	-- DID NOT PLAY --
Carlson	-- DID NOT PLAY --
McMillan	-- DID NOT PLAY --
Eldridge	-- DID NOT PLAY --
TEAM TOTALS		32-51	10-15	6-10	25	25	8	3	9	80

Tovarich: I said we needed an A+ game to win that one. We probably had a B- game. That'd never be good enough against them. It was hard to feel like we were ever really in it after we lead 6-2 or so. They had us at arm's length the entire second half, somewhere in the 10-15 range and we never really could make a dent.

Reporter: Why do you think they drove it in with 15 seconds left and drew a foul and then dunked with 1.5 to go instead of running the clock out?

Tovarich: K will be retired before I'd have the ability to get him back in any way for that most likely, so he's safe I think. He must've watched the Southern Utah game where they did the same. I can do something about them though.

Reporter: Did you feel outmatched? Or just didn't play well enough?

Tovarich: Both. We did ok on the boards, relatively speaking. That could've easily been worse. They shot 3's and we didn't. Atkinson tried to carry us, but that's a big ask. We needed more people to step up. We were sloppy with the ball. Their halfcourt trap was effective. It was like playing UCLA. They're too big and too athletic and there are things you can't do against them that you can do against the Grand Canyon's of the world.

Reporter: Can the program become a regular in the NCAA tournament?

Tovarich: It'd be hit and miss I imagine We toned down the schedule a tad this year. We backloaded the big teams until we were ready because we start 2 freshman and 2 sophomores. We had one less power opponent, 2 fewer majors and even 4 fewer mids. It just kinda turned out that most of the teams we were finishing home and homes with were worse this year than last. It takes 27 regular season wins to get an 8 seed though, so we had a little bit of wiggle room, maybe could've lost one more game in there and still made it. That's a high emphasis on beating the teams you're supposed to and not slipping up more than once like we did with Southern Utah. We had a win over Arizona to fall back on though, and Western Michigan.

Reporter: What will next year's team look like?

Tovarich: We'll be crazy young. 7-8 FR on the roster. We lose the top 2 PG's and I expect Scalzo to leave, so no PG's returning. We'll go from 4 PF's to likely just one. I'm going to have to bring in a real big haul of players. Hopefully I don't get handed a stack of rejection letters from all the recruits on day 1 of recruiting.

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NCAA Tournament 2nd Round
East
#1 Connecticut 85 #9 Boston College 73
#5 Indiana 78 #13 UMKC 52
#3 Washington 116 #6 Notre Dame 90
#2 Villanova 70 #7 Wisconsin 49

West
#1 Michigan State 92 #9 La Salle 61
#5 Gonzaga 86 #4 Memphis 79
#3 North Carolina 72 #6 Pittsburgh 69
#2 Arizona 84 #10 Florida 76

South
#1 Duke 80 #8 Alaska-Anchorage 68
#5 Oklahoma State 100 #4 Tennessee 94 (OT)
#3 Auburn 96 #6 Western Michigan 70
#2 Louisiana State 77 #7 Alabama 56

Midwest
#1 Louisville 67 #8 Clemson 61
#4 Providence 102 #5 Texas 82
#3 Stanford 73 #11 West Virginia 68
#2 UCLA 79 #10 Marshall 72

NIT 1st Round
BYU 79 Radford 65
Iowa State 62 Missouri 60
St. Louis 85 Rice 59
MTSU 94 Loyola MD 71

Michigan 76 Fullerton 74
Oklahoma 74 Cal 44
Southern Miss 72 Florida State 59
Pacific 66 Northeastern 58

Baylor 93 Wofford 75
Manhattan 64 James Madison 55
Ohio State 69 New Mexico 65
Butler 59 Denver 54

Austin Peay 73 Rhode Island 61
Western Kentucky 74 Kent State 73
Oregon 89 Arlington 57
Loyola Chicago 83 San Diego State 67

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NCAA Tournament Sweet 16
#1 Connecticut 52 #5 Indiana 46
#2 Villanova 78 #3 Washington 63

#1 Michigan State 75 #5 Gonzaga 64
#3 North Carolina 93 #2 Arizona 85

#1 Duke 107 #5 Oklahoma State 77
#3 Auburn 80 #2 Louisiana State 65

#1 Louisville 87 #4 Providence 84
#2 UCLA 73 #3 Stanford 64

NIT 2nd Round
BYU 78 Iowa State 75
St. Louis 64 MTSU 63

Oklahoma 80 Michigan 62
Southern Miss 66 Pacific 61

Manhattan 84 Baylor 74
Ohio State 92 Butler 46

Western Kentucky 75 Austin Peay 74
Loyola Chicago 80 Oregon 74

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NCAA Tournament Elite 8
#2 Villanova 72 #1 Connecticut 67

#3 North Carolina 83 #1 Michigan State 75

#3 Auburn 76 #1 Duke 73

#1 Louisville 61 #2 UCLA 53

NIT Quarterfinals
BYU 70 St. Louis 57
Southern Miss 84 Oklahoma 83

Ohio State 83 Manhattan 50
Western Kentucky 79 Loyola Chicago 64

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NCAA Tournament Final Four
#2 Villanova 93 #3 North Carolina 79
#1 Louisville 83 #3 Auburn 68

NIT Final Four
BYU 74 Southern Miss 54
Ohio State 88 Western Kentucky 79

NIT Championship
Ohio State 72 BYU 66

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I thought you may have lost to the champion, but alas Duke was eliminated in the Elite 8.

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NCAA Championship: #1 Louisville 80 #2 Villanova 68

Player of the Year: Ivan Collins (Utah)
Mid-Major Player of the Year: Dexter Henderson (James Madison)
Coach of the Year: Rick Pitino (Louisville)
Defensive Player of the Year: Dalron Bonner (Connecticut)
Big Man of the Year: Ivan Collins (Utah)
FR of the Year: Wilbur McFarlin (Wisconsin)

1st Team All-America
PG: Jarred Garrett (Oregon)
SG: Dwayne Kapono (Davidson)
SF: Jason Hubbard (Syracuse)
PF: George Hendriks (Kansas State)
C: Ivan Collins (Utah)

2nd Team All-America
PG: Dexter Henderson (James Madison)
SG: Peter Bradford (Memphis)
SF: Chadd Finn (Pittsburgh)
PF: Wesley Lambert (Washington)
C: Yual Clifton (California)

Freshman All-America
PG: Dalron Bodden (San Diego State)
SG: Wilbur McFarlin (Wisconsin)
SF: Ernie Bone (Texas)
PF: Beckham Carrington (Davidson)
C: Kent Dunleavy (Oklahoma State)

Roster Changes:
Murry, Peavy and Taft graduated.
Borders, Marsh and Wagner left team.

Notable Coaching Changes:
Lute Olson retired from Arizona, replaced by Western Michigan coach
Dave Odom retired from South Carolina, replaced by Larry Eustachy (Southern Miss)
Norm Roberts fired by St. John's, replaced by Darrin Horn (Western Kentucky)

Further info on coaching changes: All coaches who switched jobs brought both assistants with them. Both assistants under Lute Olson were hired as head coaches. Only 2 assistants available to me (Norfolk State coach and Hargett (previously St. John's assistant) were just fired. All other schools hired assistants C+ or better while I only had C choices. No one unhired from the previous offseason seems to exist anywhere. Texas Tech coach hired 2 assistants that did not previously exist to assist him at Oral Roberts. Arizona assistant also hired 2 assistants that did not previously exist to assist him at Western Illinois. Bowling Green assistant promoted to head coach at Drexel replaced by a previously non-existent assistant. No assistants retired or were fired by any returning head coach. South Carolina's two assistants are nowhere to be found after Odom retired.

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Alaska-Anchorage Seawolves Stats - 2008-09
Player	GP	MIN	PPG	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	TPG	FPG
Atkinson	33	624	23.7	5.5	0.9	1.0	0.5	0.5	0.9
Wilkins	33	657	13.1	5.2	1.5	2.3	0.3	0.7	0.9
Luz	33	685	11.0	2.2	2.8	1.6	0.0	0.4	0.8
Spears	33	703	10.4	1.8	2.7	1.6	0.0	0.4	0.8
Taft	33	315	7.9	2.2	0.6	0.8	0.1	0.1	0.6
Murry	33	741	5.7	1.5	4.8	2.1	0.0	0.8	1.2
Borders	33	236	5.4	1.9	0.5	0.6	0.0	0.3	0.2
Marsh	15	36	2.1	0.5	0.2	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.2
Herman	33	258	1.6	0.8	0.7	0.5	0.0	0.2	0.4
Wagner	17	34	1.3	0.3	0.1	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
Peavy	33	321	1.0	0.7	1.7	0.7	0.0	0.5	0.8
Scalzo	20	61	0.4	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.0	0.2	0.3

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Tovarich: Welcome to my favorite press conference of the year. Our class:

Alaska-Anchorage Recruits-#17 Class
Aaron Grady 3* #23 C #412 OVR Tucson, AZ
Sheldon Wolfe 3* #47 PG #170 OVR San Francisco, CA
Frank Bryan 3* #39 SG #139 OVR Portland, OR
Dante Stivers 3* #75 SF #300 OVR Fresno, CA
Albert Pippen 3* #64 SG #271 OVR Los Angeles, CA
Jamon Farley 4* JUCO SG Sacramento, CA
Hubert Carbaugh 3* #14 PF #103 OVR Billings, MT

Tovarich: The schedule:

Alaska-Anchorage Seawolves 2009-10 Schedule
DATE	OPPONENT	RESULT
Nov 2	at Hawaii
Nov 9	vs Rider
Nov 16	vs Jacksonville State
Nov 19	at Great Alaska Shootout
Nov 24	at South Carolina Upstate
Nov 26	at South Carolina
Nov 30	at William & Mary
Dec 2	at Belmont
Dec 8	vs Western Michigan
Dec 11	vs Loyola Chicago
Dec 18	at Canisius
Dec 21	at Rhode Island
Dec 25	at Aeropostale Holiday Festival
Dec 28	at Connecticut
Jan 5	vs Dartmouth
Jan 8	vs Saint Marys
Jan 12	vs Delaware
Jan 15	at Idaho
Jan 19	at New Mexico State
Jan 22	at Texas Tech
Jan 26	vs Northern Arizona
Jan 29	vs Cal Northridge
Feb 1	vs Southern Utah
Feb 6	at Colorado State
Feb 10	at Air Force
Feb 13	at Denver
Feb 15	at Southern Utah
Feb 19	vs South Carolina Upstate

Reporter: Is the rumor true that your first game in both tournaments is going to be Iowa?

Tovarich: Yes. Crazy coincidence.

Reporter: So this schedule will probably have more power opponents than ever before?

Tovarich: For sure. We're guaranteed at least 6. We have better talent, it's just younger talent.

Reporter: It looks like we're done even sooner than last year.

Tovarich: Yeah, the AD really needs to be fired. We'll be done on the 19th of February. I can't add games that late. All he gave us in terms of Independents were the two games with Southern Utah. We won't see any of the other five. So we'll be playing two games per week like clockwork for almost the entire season.

2009-2010 Alaska-Anchorage Seawolves
#	NAME	POS	HT	WT	CLASS	HOMETOWN
1	Aaron Grady	C	6'9"	244	FR	Tucson, AZ
2	Sheldon Wolfe	PG	6'1"	175	FR	San Francisco, CA
10	Albert Pippen	SG	6'4"	203	FR	Los Angeles, CA
13	Dante Stivers	SF	6'5"	193	FR	Fresno, CA
21	Jamon Farley	SG	6'3"	199	SO	Sacramento, CA
25	Shane Scalzo	PG	5'10"	191	SR	Towson, MD
30	Robert Spears	SG	6'2"	179	JR	Oklahoma City, OK
31	Vitor Herman	SG	6'4"	218	SO	San Francisco, CA
32	Frank Bryan	SG	6'4"	196	FR	Portland, OR
34	Taylor Wilkins	PF	6'8"	201	SO	Antioch, CA
35	Todor Luz	SF	6'6"	211	SO	Los Angeles, CA
41	Vaidotas Visockis (W)	C	6'11"	241	FR	Lithuania
44	Hubert Carbaugh	PF	6'10"	208	FR	Billings, MT
50	John-Michael Atkinson	C	7'0"	222	JR	Houston, TX

Alaska-Anchorage Seawolves Depth Chart - 2009-10
	STARTER	2ND	3RD	4TH
PG	Wolfe (66)	Bryan (SG) (69)	Scalzo (62)
SG	Farley (73)	Pippen (69)	Herman (69)
SF	Luz (68)	Spears (SG) (63)	Stivers (65)
PF	Wilkins (76)	Carbaugh (74)
C	Grady (68)	Atkinson (59)	Visockis (W) (54)

Tovarich: The depth chart is going to be a work in progress for much of the season I think. I was shocked to see Scalzo back. I thought I'd have another scholarship for a PG. He came back, but I don't imagine him being on the court. One of the SG's will be the backup PG-whichever one shoots 3's the worst. Herman I expect will transfer at the end of the season. Stivers has no real range from 3, so I'm not sure how much use I have for him. Spears will just be the backup SF when I send the B team out. Atkinson's not going to be happy moving to the bench after averaging 24 ppg for his career so far. But if for some reason our new C doesn't rebound either or keep up with his scoring pace, I won't hesitate to make that change despite what the ratings on paper say.

Reporter: Are we going back to the NCAA tournament coach?

Tovarich: The schedule is challenging, more power opponents, and more major opponents even, it's far lighter on cupcakes like we had last year. The talent is better, but we will be lacking in team unity, so expect some inconsistency. I don't know how ready they will be for the harder schedule. Scalzo is our only SR, so everyone else is back next year, except Herman hopefully. So, down the road, hopefully this helps. But it wasn't the ideal schedule to get us back to the tournament this season, no.

Reporter: Who is your new assistant coach?

Tovarich: I kept tape guy. I hired a new assistant recruiter. I don't know his name. I didn't know the last one's either.

Reporter: So what is the goal in recruiting?

Tovarich: Just Scalzo's scholarship is open, so obviously we'll go aggressively for a PG. Then I expect Herman to transfer at the end of the season and we'll be going to just whoever is the best player we can get at any position probably as we don't have any other kind of immediate need. A center would be the preference for when Atkinson graduates next season, but we're flexible with that.

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NCAA Football Rankings - AP Top 25 - Updated: Nov 1, 2009
RK	TEAM (VOTES)	W	L	POINTS
1	Duke
2	Louisville
3	Tennessee
4	Florida
5	Texas
6	Southern California
7	Memphis
8	Maryland
9	Michigan State
10	Wisconsin
11	UCLA
12	Ohio State
13	Connecticut
14	Villanova
15	Washington
16	Mississippi State
17	Arizona
18	California
19	Georgetown
20	Notre Dame
21	North Carolina
22	Michigan
23	Oklahoma State
24	Gonzaga
25	Alabama

Independent Ratings:
Alaska-Anchorage 77
Fairleigh Dickinson 74
Southern Utah, Utah Valley State 72
Southeast Missouri, Monmouth 71
Chicago State 67

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Almost all your recruits are from warm weather locations. You must have really tricked them during recruiting

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Further info on coaching changes: All coaches who switched jobs brought both assistants with them. Both assistants under Lute Olson were hired as head coaches. Only 2 assistants available to me (Norfolk State coach and Hargett (previously St. John's assistant) were just fired. All other schools hired assistants C+ or better while I only had C choices. No one unhired from the previous offseason seems to exist anywhere. Texas Tech coach hired 2 assistants that did not previously exist to assist him at Oral Roberts. Arizona assistant also hired 2 assistants that did not previously exist to assist him at Western Illinois. Bowling Green assistant promoted to head coach at Drexel replaced by a previously non-existent assistant. No assistants retired or were fired by any returning head coach. South Carolina's two assistants are nowhere to be found after Odom retired.

Slight update-my new assistant Copeland was an original Grambling assistant who did not coach last season, but was available for me to choose this time, ruining my theory that assistants left jobless for a year disappeared. The current Grambling assistants are C+ assistants, an improvement over Copeland who is a C, leaving me as the bottom of the totem pole apparently. Even though better assistants appear to be available, like Dave Odom's previous assistants, there seems to be a certain grade available to each school and the ones with better grades will apparently hold out for a better job rather than settle. I did also notice that one of the assistants available in the pool to me was an original Jackson State assistant who was left jobless when Jackson State coach retired after the first season, making 2 freshly jobless coaches and one other previous coach available for me to choose. The only other opening from the first offseason was Tennessee-Martin, whose assistants are nowhere to be found. None of the original list of assistant coaches prior to the first season have been hired anywhere.

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Stan Sheriff Center
Honolulu, HI

Alaska-Anchorage Seawolves at Hawaii Warriors
Nov 2, 2009	1ST	2ND	SCORE
Alaska-Anchorage (1-0)	37	43	80
Hawaii (0-1)	50	27	77

Alaska-Anchorage Seawolves
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Wolfe	21	1-1	0-0	1-2	4	1	2	0	1	3
Farley	13	0-1	0-1	0-0	2	1	1	0	0	0
Luz	17	5-9	4-8	0-0	2	4	1	0	0	14
Wilkins	21	4-8	0-1	2-2	6	3	1	0	2	10
Grady	18	10-18	0-0	1-1	1	1	0	0	1	21
BENCH	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Carbaugh	7	2-2	0-0	4-4	5	0	0	0	0	8
Pippen	11	0-2	0-2	0-0	2	2	0	0	0	0
Bryan	7	1-1	0-0	0-0	1	1	0	0	1	2
Spears	15	3-4	3-4	0-0	1	2	1	0	0	9
Atkinson	10	6-13	0-0	1-2	4	1	1	0	0	13
Herman	-- DID NOT PLAY --
Stivers	-- DID NOT PLAY --
TEAM TOTALS		32-59	7-16	9-11	28	16	7	0	5	80

Hawaii Warriors
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
James	21	8-13	4-5	1-2	2	8	0	0	1	21
Lettenberger	23	8-15	3-5	1-1	2	1	1	0	2	20
McNurlin, M	23	3-10	0-2	0-1	3	1	0	0	1	6
Alleyne	22	1-4	0-0	2-2	7	7	3	0	2	4
Page	20	3-3	0-0	0-0	10	0	0	0	0	6
BENCH	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
McNurlin, C	11	4-6	3-3	0-0	1	3	0	0	1	11
Fletcher	2	2-3	1-2	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	5
Pritchard	5	0-3	0-2	0-0	0	2	0	0	1	0
Nguyen	11	1-6	0-1	2-2	8	1	1	0	0	4
Dillon	-- DID NOT PLAY --
Atkins	-- DID NOT PLAY --
Sanders	-- DID NOT PLAY --
TEAM TOTALS		30-63	11-20	6-8	34	23	5	0	8	77

Tovarich: Wow. I'm stunned. We were out of that game, with pretty much nothing going right. I can't believe we're sitting here 1-0. I really can't.

Reporter: What changed when you went down 66-44?

Tovarich: They couldn't hit a shot all of a sudden. They were ridiculous in the first half. 8/11 on 3's. I don't know about overall. They were 18-11 on the boards. They even came out on fire and started up 16-7. Then for whatever reason, they missed at least 10 shots in a row. So we get to 66-60. They only got their next two baskets because of offensive rebounds. They were cursed for a while. We went from 2/9 on 3's in the first half to 5/7 in the second. We're back ahead. They have 2 FT's to tie it with about 5 seconds to go and they miss the front end. We were able to get the clock down to 1.1 and we hit the front end to make it 3 and intentionally missed the second so all they had was an 80 foot heave.

Reporter: You came out of halftime pressing, but did you feel it was effective?

Tovarich: It really wasn't. We got almost no turnovers off of it. They were pretty good with the ball. They blitzed us early. I can't possibly say what changed all of a sudden. It's baffling.

Reporter: Why do you think the slow start?

Tovarich: Poor team unity. Freshmen doing freshman stuff. We were brutal in the paint. We were brutal from 3. We weren't getting to the line. We were turning it over. We weren't playing defense. They were having a freak shooting night, but we still weren't tight enough on the 3-point shooters despite my instructions to do so. We were soft on the boards, as per usual. It's hard to explain how we were only down 13 actually.

Reporter: Do you think the first 18 minutes or the last 10 is the best indication of what this team will be?

Tovarich: All of it wrapped in one. We are going to be wildly inconsistent. I don't think you'll see all that stuff in one game again. That was a lifetime of stuff wrapped up into one wild game. But there are going to be some awful performances minus the 22-point comeback. There might be some amazing performances like the last 10 minutes. Obviously the talent continues to improve. I expect to be really good next year, but this year I think there's no getting around inconsistency and we may never know what we're going to get game to game. Today we went back to the veterans who used to start more like Spears and Atkinson when we were down. Hopefully a lot of the freshmen just had freshmen nerves and they've worked it out and we'll be better back at home. They get a couple easier games before the Great Alaska Shootout where I know the competition will be stiff.

Reporter: Why start on the road against a rival with such a young team when you eased up on the schedule so much last year to accommodate the majority of the starters being freshmen?

Tovarich: That probably wasn't a good idea. We haven't done it before. We stay home before we get into our hosting duties for whichever tournament up here and then we had out on one of our long road trips. But we got to the point in the scheduling process where we had one game left and we realized we forgot to get our rivals on the schedule and the only time it made sense to travel there was to start the season. It wasn't ideal. Nothing about this schedule is ever ideal. I wish this moron AD would get me some games later in the season instead of wrapping up on the 19th of February again.

Reporter: Hawaii seemed upset you were trying to plant your flag on their court? How do you even do that?

Tovarich: You don't, the same way you don't on an astroturf football field, but it doesn't stop everyone from trying.