Alissa Pili’s day started at the Empire State Building and ended on Cloud 9 after she was selected eighth in Monday’s WNBA Draft in New York City. The two-time All-American out of the University of Utah became the fifth Alaskan to be drafted, the third to go in the...
The West boys basketball team’s offense was grounded for much of Thursday’s first quarter, but once ‘Air Chuol’ took flight the fourth-ranked Eagles soared to victory. Senior sky-walker Mat Chuol took to the skies for two thunderous dunks early in the first half to...
For the most part, elite Anchorage basketball players didn’t want to play for the Seawolves over the last 20 years. The biggest names who did sign with UAA left early, which led to finger pointing and created a rift in the city’s hoops community. Local guys needed to...
A 28-point third quarter propelled the UAA women’s basketball team on Thursday to a 79-57 victory over Seattle Pacific in the quarterfinals of the GNAC Tournament. Eight different UAA players contributed to the scoring bonanza as the Seawolves blew the doors off the...
If this week’s Pac-12 Tournament in Las Vegas was a poker hand, Alaska basketball would be sitting pretty with three of a kind. From Rage City to Sin City, Alissa Pili, Sayvia Sellers and Mikayla Johnson came up aces in Wednesday’s first round at the MGM Garden Arena....
Drew Legenza wasn’t ready for his high school basketball career to end Tuesday night. The Eagle River senior saved his team’s season with a second-half surge that saw him outscore South by himself during a decisive run that carried the seventh seeded Wolves to a 51-44...
Edmonds College guard Chris Lee of Ketchikan is king of the north. The sophomore playmaker on Monday was named MVP of the NWAC’s North Region and earned a spot on the first team all-league. Winning MVP is even more impressive when you remember Lee missed the first...
There was a shakeup atop the girls’ rankings in this week’s Alaska Sports Report/Class 4A Coaches Poll. Colony is the new No. 1 while Wasilla moved up to the No. 2 spot after edging Mountain City Christian Academy by a single point. Colony (22-2) received nine of 13...
They are called Seawolves, but this year’s UAA men’s basketball team competes more like spiders because it keeps luring opponents into a false sense of security before striking. Facing an 11-point deficit with seven minutes to play Saturday night, the Seawolves had...
Crunch time was Sully time Friday night as Wasilla’s Sullivan Menard hit the biggest shot of his college basketball career. The junior guard forced overtime after drilling a clutch 3-pointer late in regulation and finished with 16 points as Whitworth University men's...
Alycia Shelley found her stroke at just the right time Friday night for the Colony girls basketball team. The junior guard scored seven points in the final four minutes of the fourth quarter, including a go-ahead 3-pointer at the 1:30 mark, to key the second-ranked...