The Nevada basketball team opened the GCI Great Alaska Shootout with a bit of history.
The Wolf Pack spotted Oakland a 6-minute and nine-point head start and trailed by 16 at halftime Wednesday night in Anchorage but blew past the Golden Grizzlies in the second half for an 82-78 win before 2,698 fans.
The 16-point halftime deficit overcome is the largest in the history of the Great Alaska Shootout, which began in 1978 and was college basketball’s premier non-conference tournament in the 1980s and 1990s.
“I wouldn’t want to call us a second-half team,” sophomore forward Cameron Oliver said during his post-game television interview, although the evidence shows otherwise.