Re: University of Alaska-Anchorage Basketball (CH2K8)
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The Centrum
Cedar City, UT
Tovarich: Those numbers must all look eerily similar to the game 2 weeks ago.
Reporter: You fistpumped one time when Southern Utah made a FT?
Tovarich: Absolutely. They missed 3 times and got the offensive rebound and it turned into 7 points because of that. It's kind of embarrassing to have to root for the other team to make FT's, but it's better that way with our rebounding. I'm shocked to see only -1. They had TEN offensive rebounds. It was pitiful.
Reporter: Was it good or bad they stopped playing the 3-2 zone so quickly?
Tovarich: I think we were 7/10 on 3's and they gave it up and went man the rest of the game. I don't think that was a good idea on their part. It was only 25-17. Odds are we'd have cooled off at some point. They looked like they barely knew how to play man to man. We didn't exactly stop their big guy either, but get it to a big down in the post, and we scored almost every time.
Reporter: The first bracketology is finally out and you're the second to last team in. Do you think that's a good sign?
Tovarich: I doubt it. We've got one more cupcake and then we got sit at home for 3 weeks so we can't really build our resume up while everyone else can. It's a little disappointing 5 losses might keep you out. This schedule is definitely tougher than last year's. We were comfortably in as an 8 seed last year with 4 losses. I guess Canisius is a tough loss, but we had one of those last year to Southern Utah. We played 4 ranked teams to last year's 3. We played 8 power schools to last year's 5. I'd be hugely disappointed to find out we should just play all cupcakes to avoid losing and that SOS doesn't really matter. There are usually some bidstealers in conference tournaments. So it looks bleak for us.
@ The Centrum
Cedar City, UT
| Alaska-Anchorage Seawolves at Southern Utah Thunderbirds | |||
| Feb 15, 2010 | 1ST | 2ND | SCORE |
| Alaska-Anchorage (25-5) | 52 | 48 | 100 |
| Southern Utah (14-14) | 39 | 38 | 77 |
| Alaska-Anchorage Seawolves | |||||||||||
| STARTERS | MIN | FGM-A | 3PM-A | FTM-A | REB | AST | STL | BLK | TO | PTS | |
| Wolfe | 19 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | |
| Farley | 19 | 4-8 | 4-8 | 1-2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 13 | |
| Luz | 19 | 4-5 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 10 | |
| Wilkins | 19 | 5-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 10 | |
| Grady | 19 | 11-13 | 0-0 | 5-5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 27 | |
| BENCH | MIN | FGM-A | 3PM-A | FTM-A | REB | AST | STL | BLK | TO | PTS | |
| Carbaugh | 9 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| Pippen | 9 | 3-5 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | |
| Bryan | 9 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| Spears | 9 | 3-5 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | |
| Atkinson | 9 | 5-6 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12 | |
| Herman | -- DID NOT PLAY -- | ||||||||||
| Stivers | -- DID NOT PLAY -- | ||||||||||
| TEAM TOTALS | 38-56 | 10-19 | 14-15 | 20 | 26 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 100 | ||
| Southern Utah Thunderbirds | |||||||||||
| STARTERS | MIN | FGM-A | 3PM-A | FTM-A | REB | AST | STL | BLK | TO | PTS | |
| Dillard | 23 | 4-6 | 2-3 | 5-6 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 15 | |
| Clifford | 22 | 4-13 | 2-8 | 0-0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 10 | |
| Prato | 26 | 5-6 | 1-1 | 3-4 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 14 | |
| Kemp | 20 | 5-8 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10 | |
| Novakovic | 22 | 9-10 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 18 | |
| BENCH | MIN | FGM-A | 3PM-A | FTM-A | REB | AST | STL | BLK | TO | PTS | |
| Fields | 10 | 1-4 | 0-1 | 2-2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | |
| Cornette | 6 | 2-7 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |
| Caskill | 11 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| Leonard | -- DID NOT PLAY -- | ||||||||||
| Mills | -- DID NOT PLAY -- | ||||||||||
| Len Bullicer | -- DID NOT PLAY -- | ||||||||||
| Borders | -- DID NOT PLAY -- | ||||||||||
| TEAM TOTALS | 31-55 | 5-16 | 10-14 | 21 | 19 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 77 | ||
Tovarich: Those numbers must all look eerily similar to the game 2 weeks ago.
Reporter: You fistpumped one time when Southern Utah made a FT?
Tovarich: Absolutely. They missed 3 times and got the offensive rebound and it turned into 7 points because of that. It's kind of embarrassing to have to root for the other team to make FT's, but it's better that way with our rebounding. I'm shocked to see only -1. They had TEN offensive rebounds. It was pitiful.
Reporter: Was it good or bad they stopped playing the 3-2 zone so quickly?
Tovarich: I think we were 7/10 on 3's and they gave it up and went man the rest of the game. I don't think that was a good idea on their part. It was only 25-17. Odds are we'd have cooled off at some point. They looked like they barely knew how to play man to man. We didn't exactly stop their big guy either, but get it to a big down in the post, and we scored almost every time.
Reporter: The first bracketology is finally out and you're the second to last team in. Do you think that's a good sign?
Tovarich: I doubt it. We've got one more cupcake and then we got sit at home for 3 weeks so we can't really build our resume up while everyone else can. It's a little disappointing 5 losses might keep you out. This schedule is definitely tougher than last year's. We were comfortably in as an 8 seed last year with 4 losses. I guess Canisius is a tough loss, but we had one of those last year to Southern Utah. We played 4 ranked teams to last year's 3. We played 8 power schools to last year's 5. I'd be hugely disappointed to find out we should just play all cupcakes to avoid losing and that SOS doesn't really matter. There are usually some bidstealers in conference tournaments. So it looks bleak for us.
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