UAA women's basketball coach Matt Thune has already started securing commitments for next season after adding two familiar faces this week via the transfer portal. Wasilla's Bella Hays will come back to Alaska after playing three seasons at Eastern Washington...
Just because he isn't playing in the NBA doesn't mean Daishen Nix of Anchorage isn't one of the best basketball players in the world. He demonstrated his skill set every night for the Rio Grande Valley Vipers in the G League, but especially in the playoffs. Nix was at...
The G League postseason has tipped off, and so it's time for the Alaskan known as Playoff D to go off. Daishen Nix of Anchorage delivered another masterful playoff performance for the Rio Grande Valley Vipers on Tuesday, scoring 34 points and hitting a dagger...
Anchorage's Trinity Alex-Mayer started the month with the Eastern Arizona College women's basketball team by winning ACCAC Defensive Player of the Year honors and ended it with a junior college national championship. She wrapped up her marvelous March on Tuesday night...
The UAA men's basketball team on Tuesday is expected to introduce former Seawolf assistant Cameron Turner as its new head coach, according to multiple reports. Turner reportedly told his Eastern Arizona College players Monday about his decision to take the UAA job...
Keelie Kronberger's progression in high school has been steady as she goes for the Mountain City girls basketball standout, but this season she sailed through the competition to win player-of-the-year honors in a boat race. The 6-foot scoring machine swept all three...
One year after leading the Colony girls basketball team to a Class 4A state championship, Hallie Clark started all 32 games for a nationally ranked Colorado Mesa University squad that marched all the way to the final four. The end of the road came Thursday night, when...
Barrow boys basketball player Alex Fruean was voted our Alaska Athlete of the Week after averaging 33 points in three games at the Class 3A state tournament, highlighted by a career-high 46 points in a 98-97 triple-OT loss to Mt. Edgecumbe in the title game. The...
He didn't get the ending he wanted, but Brayden Maldonado of Anchorage wrapped up his college basketball career with an Alaska state record. The Seattle University senior out of East High poured in 25 points in Sunday's 91-85 loss to Auburn in the Round of 16 of the...
After watching his team lose in last year's state semifinals, Grace Christian boys basketball coach Jason Boerger was determined to toughen up the Grizzlies. "We weren't going to let that happen again this year, so we came in with a physicality mindset, he said. "It...
Production and practicality kept Keelie Kronberger and Jasmine Schaeffer on the court for nearly every moment of Mountain City’s basketball games. The Lions roster consists of only eight players, so the two seniors seldom took a breather. So it was Saturday night,...