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Bradley to play in 2008 Top of the World Classic in Alaska

Calling all BU supporters who traveled to SPI...another road trip! :)

Might be a bit harder to find a beach house in Fairbanks though...;)

Wonder if it will be warmer in Alaska in November than it was in South Padre???
 
Here is a summary of the schools listed as participants in the 2008 TOWC tournament. Note that every school, except the hosts, Alaska-Fairbanks, had a winning record last year. Also, every team except Alaska-Fairbanks and Central Florida were in postseason tournaments. And the RPIs of the D1 schools were a pretty impressive 14, 64, 73, 105, 108 and 162.
So far, there do not appear to be any RPI-killing dogs in this tournament, like we see in most other early season tournaments.

Schools in the tournament include (with last year's RPIs, record, conference finish, and postseason tournament)--

Confirmed:
Bradley (RPI 105, record 21-17, 5th in MVC, Postseason-CBI)
Stanford (RPI 14, record 28-8, 2nd in Pac 10, Postseason-NCAA)
Central Florida (RPI 162, record 16-15, tied for 4th in CUSA)
Alaska-Fairbanks (Div II, record 5-22, they lost only 1 senior)

Tentative:
Winthrop (RPI 108, record 22-12, 1st in Big South, Postseason-NCAA)
Miami, Ohio (RPI 73, record 17-16, 3rd in Mid-American East, Postseason-CBI)
Stephen F. Austin (RPI 64, record 26-6, 1st in Southland-West, Postseason-NIT)

Bradley will be in the opposite bracket from Stanford.
 
 
OrangeandBlack74 said:
Calling all BU supporters who traveled to SPI...another road trip! :)

Might be a bit harder to find a beach house in Fairbanks though...;)

Wonder if it will be warmer in Alaska in November than it was in South Padre???
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Road trip??? We can take the Alaskan Highway. From Peoria, Google maps pegs the distance at 3,500 miles and estimates the drive time to be "about 2 days 13 hours." I guess it could take a few more days each direction if we stop to tee it up along the way! :)

http://maps.google.com/maps?daddr=F...147.722168&sspn=0.248224,0.928345&ie=UTF8&z=3
 
Dallas Brave said:
Road trip??? We can take the Alaskan Highway. From Peoria, Google maps pegs the distance at 3,500 miles and estimates the drive time to be "about 2 days 13 hours." I guess it could take a few more days each direction if we stop to tee it up along the way! :)
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Well, not a road trip in the literal sense! ;)

You may have driven to SPI, but the rest of us flew in from various destinations. Now, we just need to convince some other diehards like Big Mike, MR, and others to join us for fun, food, liquid refreshment and BU hoops!! ;)

Smoke 'em if you got 'em, eh DB??
 
Hey that's only about $500 worth of gas one way! Hopefully they have a Quick Stop in Moosejaw to fill up.:)

Round trip flight Chicago to Fairbanks around $900.
 
tornado said:
But Stanford will be down a notch with a new coach and the loss of a lot of their talent.
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Yea, but I just want us to play a BCS school to get the benefit in the RPI for the calculation of "opponents' opponents' average winning percentage" which amounts to 25% of Bradley's RPI.

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I am working on it, and will probably go.
Might take a cheap flight to Vegas first and spend a couple days there, then fly from there to Fairbanks. Alaska Airlines flies in and out of Vegas.

One thing to mention-- I think it was just last year or the year before, Creighton was scheduled to play in Alaska. A number of fans made arrangements to go, then CU pulled out late because Dana Altman didn't want to play the team they were matched against. It left a few angry fans who had reservations that couldn't be cancelled without penalty.

We need to find out if Bradley had a deadline date to pull out.
 
Dallasbrave,

You bring the cigars and I will bring the Scotch. I have played golf on snow before, so no problem. Have you gotten permission for this yet??? O&B and I have no such issue.
 
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