The 2017 Great Alaska Shootout will be the last in the 40-year history of the Thanksgiving week college basketball tournament held in the Land of the Midnight Sun.
“I saw that. I am sad it’s going away,” former KU center Eric Chenowith said of Thursday’s announcement that the University of Alaska Anchorage could no longer sustain funding for the event that brought KU to Anchorage in 1984, 1988 and Chenowith’s junior season, 1999-2000.
“Obviously we won that tournament in what turned out to be Drew Gooden’s big breakout,” Chenowith added of the freshman forward claiming MVP honors after KU’s wins over Georgia, Xavier and Georgia Tech.