As the college basketball offseason—and summer—drags on, scheduling news provides fans with a little taste of what's to come between November and March. In this series, Blogging the Bracket's Chris Dobbertean examines this season's exempt tournaments, providing facts that will probably only be interesting to him. For the fields that will announce their brackets in August, Chris will provide his own suggested bracket for the purposes of later mocking. In 1978, the Sea Wolf Classic made its debut in Anchorage, Alaska. It's still kicking, albeit with a different name, 37 years later. As I'll explain, that's somewhat surprising.
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