ANCHORAGE (July 20) – University of Alaska Anchorage men’s basketball head coach Rusty Osborne announced his team’s 2011-12 schedule on Wednesday.
The Seawolves will play 18 homes games this season, starting with an exhibition contest against the Seawolf Alumni on Nov. 19 at the Wells Fargo Sports Complex.
UAA will kick off the regular season in the 34th annual Carrs/Safeway Great Alaska Shootout when it faces Div. I Murray State on Nov. 23. The Seawolves, who finished fourth in last year’s Shootout, will play either Dartmouth or San Francisco on Nov. 25, followed by Central Michigan, New Mexico State, UC Irvine and Southern Mississippi on Nov. 26.
The rest of the non-conference schedule moves back to the WFSC, including the AT&T Jamboree, Dec. 2-3, when UAA hosts Minot State, Portland Bible and Alaska Fairbanks.
Alaska Fairbanks comes south again on Dec. 10 for an early Great Northwest Athletic Conference opener, before defending GNAC champ Central Washington travels to Anchorage on Dec. 29 to resume the league slate.
UAA faces a tough January with six of eight games on the road, but returns home for four of the next six. The regular season wraps up Feb. 23 at UAF.
The second annual GNAC Men’s Basketball Tournament will change formats this season, moving the entire slate to Lacey, Wash., on the campus of Saint Martin’s University, Feb. 29-Mar. 3. The top six teams will qualify, with seeds 3-6 meeting in the quarterfinals and the top two seeds receiving byes into the semifinals.
UAA, which returns two starters from last year’s 24-10 squad, will try to return to the NCAA Division II West Regionals, set for Mar. 9-12.
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