FAIRBANKS - The Alaska Nanooks men's basketball team welcomes the Seattle Mountaineers for a pair of scrimmages on Friday, Nov. 1 and Saturday, Nov. 2. Both contests are set for a 7:00 p.m. tip-off. Neither game will have a live stream or live stats.

Friday, Nov. 1
Seattle Mountaineers | No Stream | No Stats | FREE ADMISSION
Alaska Airlines Gymnasium at the Patty Center | 7:00 p.m.

Saturday, Nov. 2
Seattle Mountaineers | No Stream | No Stats | FREE ADMISSION
Alaska Airlines Gymnasium at the Patty Center | 7:00 p.m.

Last Time Out
The Alaska Nanooks men's basketball team is back after its Alumni Game last weekend when they welcomed former Nanooks back to campus to take on the men's basketball team.

#NookNotes

• The Nanooks are returning five players from last year's squad. Senior guard/forward Jordan Gill, senior guard Paul Johnson, redshirt senior forward Ketan Sidhu, junior guard Cortarius Mingo and junior guard Josh Davis return for another year in Fairbanks. They are joined by redshirt senior Isaac Garcia, a guard who was on the 2022-23 Nanooks roster.
• The remainder of the roster is made up of nine transfers: Chris Lee, a 6-1 junior from Edmonds College; Mike Miller, a 6-4 junior from San Bernardino Valley College; Griffin Effenberger, a 6-5 senior out of Southern Wesleyan University; Isaiah Saams-Hoy, a 6-4 junior from San Jose City College; Jalai O'Keith, a 6-6 redshirt senior from East Los Angeles College; Jeremiah Hersrud, a 5-9 redshirt junior from Bellevue College; Shiloh Zevenbergen, a 6-5 junior out of Edmonds College; Jackson Krug, a 6-7 junior from Lassen Community College and Elyon Zevenbergen, a 6-8 junior from Edmonds College.
• Frank Ostanik returns to the Nanooks, beginning his first season as head coach after serving in the position from 2004-07. He is joined by assistant coach and former Alaska Anchorage Seawolf Tobin Karlberg.
• Alaska will play 13 contests at the Patty Center this season while traveling for their remaining 14 games.

Preseason Poll
The Nanooks were tabbed to finish tenth in the conference in the GNAC Preseason Coaches Poll, released on October 17. Central Washington took the top spot in the poll, receiving 90 points and four first-place votes. The top two regular season finishers from last season were picked to finish second and third in 2024-25, as Montana State Billings was predicted to finish second with 85 points and three first-place votes, and Northwest Nazarene took the third spot in the poll with 70 points. Alaska Anchorage and Saint Martin's tied for fourth, coming in one point behind the Nighthawks with 69. Both teams received a first-place vote, as did the sixth-ranked team in the conference, Western Washington. The Vikings received 52 points in the preseason poll, putting them three points ahead of Seattle Pacific in seventh. Simon Fraser took eighth in the coaches poll with 25 points, while Western Oregon was picked to finish ninth in the GNAC with 21. Alaska received 19 points, taking the tenth spot in the poll.

Upcoming Schedule
Alaska kicks off its season in Hawaii, taking on Chaminade on Friday, November 8, with tip-off set for 6 p.m. AKT. They play two more games in Hawaii, taking on Hawaii Pacific the following day before a rematch vs. Chaminade on the 11th. The Nanooks play their season opener on Nov. 22, when they host Multnomah at 7 p.m. in the Alaska Airlines Gymnasium at the Patty Center.

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