Indiana State Downs Pepperdine On Final Day Of Great Alaska Shootout

[Jason Svoboda]

The Indiana State Sycamores surged ahead late to down Pepperdine by the score of 73-70 on the final day of the Great Alaska Shootout inside Sullivan Arena.

Read more at GoSycamores...

 

[Gotta Hav]

Picked up a Tampa Bay Tribune newspaper this morning.......in the Sports Section, it said we played for Fifth Place, this article says Fourth Place.

For historical purposes...what Place was it? Does anyone really know? Heck, at one time, I thought we were playing for Third Place.

The TB Trib also noted that Denver and Alaska-Anchorage played for 7th Place....

 

[BudDawgII]

Picked up a Tampa Bay Tribune newspaper this morning.......in the Sports Section, it said we played for Fifth Place, this article says Fourth Place.

For historical purposes...what Place was it? Does anyone really know? Heck, at one time, I thought we were playing for Third Place.

The TB Trib also noted that Denver and Alaska-Anchorage played for 7th Place....

Hope your enjoying your warm visit in sunny Florida!
Reminds me of one of my ole basketball coaches in high school. After finishing a holiday tournament over in Illinois and finishing third and fourth ....this is what happened!
Upon returning to Indiana and crossing the now closed bridge across the Wabash between Crossville and New Harmony...the coach asks the bus driver to stop in the middle of the bridge----then began to yell at his team about how they had played--and what this piss ant --mean nothing trophy represents--and then stepped off the bus and heaved the trophy as far off he could throw it---it splashes in the middle of the Wabash!
He gets back on the bus with a beet red face---the bus is totally quite for the rest of the ride home!
Now that's what I'm talking about when I reference teaching moments and passion for the game of basketball in Indiana!

 

[TreeTop]

Picked up a Tampa Bay Tribune newspaper this morning.......in the Sports Section, it said we played for Fifth Place, this article says Fourth Place.

For historical purposes...what Place was it? Does anyone really know? Heck, at one time, I thought we were playing for Third Place.

The TB Trib also noted that Denver and Alaska-Anchorage played for 7th Place....

Here's the official finishing order:

Champion: Harvard
2nd TCU
3rd Green Bay
4th Tulsa
5th Sycamores
6th Pepperdine
7th Denver
8th UAA

Top four come out of the winner's bracket from the first round, the bottom four out of the loser's bracket. And even though we didn't finish like we would have wanted, we did finish 2-1, which was the same record we posted in Orlando and in Honolulu.

 

[BankShot]

Hope your enjoying your warm visit in sunny Florida!
Reminds me of one of my ole basketball coaches in high school. After finishing a holiday tournament over in Illinois and finishing third and fourth ....this is what happened!
Upon returning to Indiana and crossing the now closed bridge across the Wabash between Crossville and New Harmony...the coach asks the bus driver to stop in the middle of the bridge----then began to yell at his team about how they had played--and what this piss ant --mean nothing trophy represents--and then stepped off the bus and heaved the trophy as far off he could throw it---it splashes in the middle of the Wabash!
He gets back on the bus with a beet red face---the bus is totally quite for the rest of the ride home!
Now that's what I'm talking about when I reference teaching moments and passion for the game of basketball in Indiana!

I hope Lansing does the same thing with this "trophy"...in 10,000 yrs, Canadian archeologists will discover it and think there was a massive bronze-age civilization called "ISU" in the NW Territory that only survived 5 generations! What a legacy...

In all seriousness, are they actually awarding a "5th Place Trophy?":wacko: Must be a few ex-IHSAA administrators in Anchorage running the show.

 

[BudDawgII]

I hope Lansing does the same thing with this "trophy"...in 10,000 yrs, Canadian archeologists will discover it and think there was a massive bronze-age civilization called "ISU" in the NW Territory that only survived 5 generations! What a legacy...

In all seriousness, are they actually awarding a "5th Place Trophy?":wacko: Must be a few ex-IHSAA administrators in Anchorage running the show.

LOL---its all about making everyone feel good! Grade school--high school --now college ---mentality of everyone gets a ribbon--banner--prize etc!
Show me a University that only keeps/displays conference/division/state/national Winners and I will tell you they understand what throphies/banners/titles use to represent! Please no more mediocrity at ISU!!!!!
Hope Lansing asks the pilot to open one of the cargo doors of the plane so he can throw the damn thing into the Pacific!
Now....lets get home and start preparing to kick some ass before the conference grind begins!