2013 Great Alaska Shootout field announced with Iowa

The formerly "GREAT" Alaska Shoot Out is no more and the 2013 field is weak and does suck. Too bad because those folks were pioneers and despite the fact it's cold there it's also is some beautiful country and much better setting for college basketball.

Basketball is played in the winter in gyms into the spring... screw the warm weather sites.

Having said that I blame Sarah Palin for the SHOOT OUT demise.... and Glen Rice.
 


Wow, guess I hadn't been paying attention. I thought they still brought great teams.

Hopefully next year they'll have one good one!
 


aaronzuriel said:
The formerly "GREAT" Alaska Shoot Out is no more and the 2013 field is weak and does suck. Too bad because those folks were pioneers and despite the fact it's cold there it's also is some beautiful country and much better setting for college basketball.

Basketball is played in the winter in gyms into the spring... screw the warm weather sites.

Having said that I blame Sarah Palin for the SHOOT OUT demise.... and Glen Rice.
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I liked this solely because of the Sarah Palin doing Glen Rice reference.
 




aaronzuriel said:
The formerly "GREAT" Alaska Shoot Out is no more and the 2013 field is weak and does suck. .. .. ..
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If I remember correctly, the GASO started becoming less relevant when the NCAA started counting the early tournaments as games. The better teams used to go to them because back in the day, they didn't count as far as games played in a season. So a team could get more games in.

Plus there weren't as many CanCun Classics and Maui Invitationals so the better teams had less to choose from. Now it's unusual for a team to not be in some kind of pre-season tournament.
 




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