FAIRBANKS – Coming off a weekend sweep of Great Northwest Athletic Conference foes, the Alaska Nanook men's basketball team hosts in-state rival Alaska Anchorage on Saturday at 7:00 p.m. at the Patty Center.
Ravn Alaska will be giving away two round-trip tickets to Anchorage as well as two one-day car rental vouchers to Avis Car Rental. Individuals can sign up for the drawing at the Lions Club table in the Patty Lobby with the winner being announced at the under four-minute media timeout in the second half (winners must be present to claim prize).
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UAF PROBABLE STARTERS (2014-15 stats)
G—Alex Duncan, 6-1, Jr. (3.8 ppg, 1.5 rpg, 2.3 apg, .370 FG, .250 3FG, .333 FT)
G—Ruben Silvas, 6-3, Jr. (12.3 ppg, 5.8 rpg, 1.9 apg, .606 FG, .480 3FG, .846 FT)
G—Ashton Edwards, 6-1, Jr. (14.8 ppg, 1.4 rpg, 3.2 apg, .427 FG, .432 3FG, .919 FT)
F—Kyle Tomlinson, 6-4, Jr. (6.8 ppg, 4.1 rpg, 1.1 apg, .383 FG, .367 3FG, .250 FT)
C—Isaac Ladines, 6-8, Jr. (4.2 ppg, 4.1 rpg, 0.6 apg, .488 FG, .667 FT)
Alaska (5-7, 2-2 GNAC) earned wins over Western Washington and Simon Fraser last weekend, at home. The Nanooks have now won three straight games, dating back to the middle of December. Alaska Anchorage has won four straight, as it also swept Simon Fraser and Western Washington last weekend.
Last season, the two rivals split their two games, with the Nanooks earning a 70-68 win at home with a buzzer-beating layup.
Against Western Washington, Ashton Edwards scored a career-high 30 points, including 18 in the second half, to lead the Nanooks to a dramatic 64-60.
The game came down to the wire, as both Alaska and the Vikings traded blows throughout the entire game, but it was the Nanooks who prevailed, thanks to the clutch shooting of Edwards and key free-throws by Eric Fongue.
Alaska trailed 33-32 at the half, but hung tight in the second, as though Western Washington threatened to pull away, the Nanooks bore down defensively and made the baskets they had to keep themselves in the game.
In the high-octane game versus Simon Fraser Ruben Silvas scored 34 points to lead six Nanooks in double-figures as Alaska rolled to a 121-111 win.
Silvas, who was also the game's top rebounder with 11 points, went 8-11 from the field and hit 17-18 free-throws en route to his tally of 34.
Ashton Edwards followed up his career-day on Thursday with 23 points while Adam Griffin (14), Kyle Tomlinson (13), Almir Hadzisehovic (12) and Isaac Ladines (11) all had big offensive days.
TEAM COMPARISONS UAA UAF
UAA Road/UAF Home 1-2 4-2
Points per Game 80.3 70.8
Points Allowed/Game 71.9 73.8
Rebounding Diff. +6.9 -0.2
Assists per Game 19.5 14.1
Turnovers per Game 13.4 11.8
Steals per Game 6.9 4.3
Blocks per Game 2.6 3.0
FG% .479 .429
3-pt FG% .371 .384
FT% .730 .721
