TABLE of CONTENTS Women’s Bracket. 3 SHOOTOUT Men’s Bracket . 5 SHUTTLE BUS SERVICE Shootout Committee & Seawolf Captains. 7 Provided by ALASKA TOBY CHARTER Adopt-A-University Program. 9 All service provided to and from the 11 Calais II Building, located at 3201 C Sullivan Arena . Street. Service returns from Sullivan 2006 Tournament Preview. 13-15 Arena following the second game of each session. Women’s History. 17 WEDNESDAY, NOV. 22 Air Force Falcons. 19 (Game times 7:30 & 9:45 pm) Alaska Anchorage Seawolves women. 21 6:30, 6:45, 7:15, 7:30, 8:45, 9:00, 9:15, 9:30, 9:45 Butler Bulldogs. 23 THURSDAY, NOV. 23 UC Riverside Highlanders. 25 (Game times 5:30 & 8 pm) Women’s Scorecard. 27 4:30, 4:45, 5:00, 5:15, 5:30, 7:00, 7:15, 7:30, 7:45, 8:00 Women’s All-Time Results. 29-35 FRIDAY, NOV. 24 Women’s Shootout Records. 37 (Game times Noon, 2, 5:30 & 8 pm) Women’s All-Time Participation. 39 11:00, 11:15, 11:30, 11:45, 12:00, 1:00, 1:15, 1:30, 1:45, 2:00 / 4:30, Men’s Shootout History. 41-45 4:45, 5:00, 5:15, 5:30, 7:00, 7:15, 7:30, 7:45, 8:00 Seawolf Giant Killers & Shootout Legends. 47 Alaska Anchorage Seawolves men. 49 SATURDAY, NOV. 25 (Game times Noon, 2, 5:30 & 8:30 pm) California Golden Bears. 51 11:00, 11:15, 11:30, 11:45, Noon, 1:00, 1:15, 1:30, 1:45, 2:00 / 4:30, Hawaii Rainbow Warriors . 53 4:45, 5:00, 5:15, 5:30, 7:30, 7:45, Hofstra Pride. 55 8:00, 8:15, 8:30 Loyola Marymount Lions. 57 Marshall Thundering Herd. 59 Missouri-Kansas City Kangaroos. 61 Pacific Tigers. 63 Men’s Scorecard. 64-65 Men’s Shootout Records. 67 Men’s All-Time Results. 69-77 Men’s All-Time Participation . 79 Seawolf Athletics. 81 UAA Administration. 83 Seawolf Corporate Sponsors. 85 This is UAA . 87 Anchorage & Alaska. 88 5ON THE COVER: The Shootout takes on a global feel in this year’s design by The Nerland Agency. The 2006 Carrs/Safeway Great Alaska Shootout tournament program was written and edited by UAA sports information Background photo by Michael director Nate Sagan, with editorial assistance provided by Tad Dunham. Photography by Michael Dinneen and Clark James Dinneen / UAA Athletics. Mishler. Typography and design by Nate Sagan. Printing by A.T. Publishing and Printing, Inc., Anchorage, Alaska. It is the policy of UAA to provide services and benefits to all students and employees without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability or status as a Vietnam-era veteran. This official publication was released by the University of Alaska, produced at a cost of $1.57 per copy to promote the Carrs/Safeway Great Alaska Shootout. Carrs/Safeway Great Alaska Shootout 1 SHOOTOUT PREVIEW Shootout is a basketball feast like no other As the curtain begins to close on the Butler was the only school to place third decade of the Carrs/Safeway Great two players on the Horizon’s five-woman Alaska Shootout, the 49th State’s pre- preseason all-league first team with mier team sporting event can make the senior guard Jackie Closser (15.1 ppg, claim that it is truly the biggest college 5.2 apg) and sophomore center Lade basketball extravaganza in the nation. Akande (16.2 ppg, 8.0 rpg) picking up No tournament anywhere else fea- the honor. tures 16 games packed into five days on a single court. Not in New York. Not in UC RIVERSIDE: Perhaps no team in the Maui. Not even March Madness. nation got hotter at the end of last sea- So after Alaskans stuff themselves son than the Highlanders, running off a with Thanksgiving turkey, they head nine-game win streak that earned the over to Sullivan Arena for wall-to-wall southern California school its first NCAA basketball. Div. I Tournament berth. And this year’s tournament looks With 10 letterwinners – including like another feast. On the women’s side all five starters – back from that history- is the debut of a new head coach on the making squad, the Highlanders are pre- host school’s sideline, plus the return of dicted to win the Big West Conference’s yet another former local high school star regular-season title this year by the in Air Force’s Letricia Castillo. On the league’s coaches and picked second by men’s side, Cal and Hofstra both feature the media. national player-of-the-year candidates, Junior post Kemie Nkele (15.9 ppg, while mid-major power Pacific looks to 7.7 rpg, league-best 1.7 bpg) is the big- start a run to a fourth straight NCAA gest reason for the excitement in the bid. Inland Empire. Here’s a quick look at this year’s fields: MEN’S FIELD ALASKA ANCHORAGE: The Seawolves WOMEN’S FIELD will be a new-look bunch at this year’s AIR FORCE: The Falcons, one of three Shootout, returning just one starter from first-time visitors on the women’s side, last year’s NCAA Tournament squad are coming off their best season (13-15) while infusing 10 newcomers. since becoming a Division I program in Third-year coach Rusty Osborne has 1996-97. one of the top point guards in Div. II with Sixth-year coach Ardie McInelly will junior Luke Cooper (6.4 apg) at the con- rely on four seniors this year, includ- trols. Cooper is joined by another pair of ing Anchorage native Letricia Castillo veterans in versatile forward Carl Arts (Bartlett High), who will serve as team (6.9 ppg, 4.6 rpg) and sweet-shooting captain. Castillo is on pace to become the senior guard Eric Draper (8.6 ppg). first 1,000-point scorer in the Academy’s The Seawolves enter the 2006 5Hofstra guard Loren Stokes is a two-time D-I history, and also ranks high on the 5Marquette’s Steve Novak is a preseason tourney with 27 all-time Shootout wins All-Colonial Athletic Association pick and is Falcons’ all-time three-point lists. All-America candidate. The Golden Eagles after knocking off Southern Illinois – an one of 50 national candidates for the John forward shot 46.1 percent from three-point R. Wooden Player of the Year award. The eventual NCAA Tournament team – last range in 2004-05. ALASKA ANCHORAGE: A new era begins Pride are the preseason favorite in the CAA. year. in Anchorage this year as Tim Moser takes over on the Seawolf sidelines after CALIFORNIA: The Golden Bears may proving himself one of the top junior- Gritty seniors Mari (Riser) Callahan feel they’ve got something to prove as college coaches in the country at Otero and Tenecia (Macon) Lockard should they try to overcome the loss of star (Colo.) JC. help UAA sport one of the most formi- forward Leon Powe, who left for early The Seawolves return an All-America dable frontcourts in all of Division II. NBA riches. candidate in sophomore center Rebecca Coming off another 20-win season Kielpinski (19.4 ppg, 9.9 rpg), who led BUTLER: Hopes are high in Indianapolis and an NCAA bid, 10th-year coach Ben the Great Northwest Athletic Conference where the Bulldogs are coming off a Braun will put his 2006-07 team in the in rebounding and double-doubles (14) 15-14 season and stocked with enough capable hands of point guard Ayinde last year, earning GNAC Freshman of the returning talent to land third in the Ubaka (14.5 ppg, 3.8 apg), one of 50 Year and Freshman All-America honors. Horizon League’s preseason poll. Carrs/Safeway Great Alaska Shootout 13 SULLIVAN ARENA The Seawolf basketball teams host the Carrs/ Safeway Great Alaska Shootout in the 8,700- seat Sullivan Arena in Midtown Anchorage – a site that has also grown into one of the finest college hockey arenas in the nation. The municipally owned arena was named in honor of former Anchorage mayor George Sullivan, whose Project 80s plan took oil wealth and turned it into a series of major public building projects. The Shootout moved to the $30 million facility in 1983, tripling the tournament’s seating capacity from its former home at Buckner Fieldhouse on Fort Richardson. A Willie Nelson concert on Feb. 8, 1983 was the first event hosted by the arena, and in March of that year the Seawolf hockey team played its first game at Sullivan when it took on the U.S. National Team. Since that time, UAA has emerged as one of the top- drawing hockey programs in the nation. Basketball fans have flocked to the Sullivan to see the Carrs/Safeway Great Alaska Shootout. Over the last 10 years, more than 50,000 fans per tournament have squeezed into Sullivan, and seven sessions have drawn sellout crowds. Managed by SMG, the arena is designed with flexibility in mind. It can host nearly every indoor sport, and can be configured to host any large gathering such as concerts, trade shows or circuses. Complete with an international-sized ice rink (100 x 200 feet), the arena takes advantage of portable seating to switch from hockey to basketball configu- rations in a matter of hours. The latest addition is the new floor that was installed in time for the 2004 Shootout, in 2002, hangs in the center of the arena, and was installed on the south wall.