Completed Event: Men's Basketball at Bryant on November 12, 2025 , Loss , 75, to, 82
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Dartmouth Ready for Great Alaska Shootout
11/23/2011 11:49:00 AM | Men's Basketball
The Game: Dartmouth (1-2) vs. San Francisco (4-1)
Location: Sullivan Arena (8,700), Anchorage, Alaska
Tipoff: Wednesday, November 23 at 8:30 p.m. (Alaska time)
Series Record vs. San Francisco: First Meeting
Television: Fox College Sports, YES Network, DIRECTV Sports Pak, Dish Network Multi-Sports Pak
Live Video - GoSeawolves.com ($)
Live Stats
Complete Game Notes
Heating Up for Alaska
• Dartmouth's final game before traveling to Anchorage for the Great Alaska Shootout produced its first victory of the year, a 66-62 win over Bryant.
• A win over San Francisco would give the Big Green their first winning streak since their historic road sweep of Penn and Princeton in February of 2009.
• Dartmouth is the first team from the state of New Hampshire to participate in the Great Alaska Shootout, which has been run every year since 1978.
• The Big Green have never played any of the seven other schools participating in the tournament.
• Second-year assistant coach Ricky Moore is returning to the Great Alaska Shootout for the first time since playing in the tournament in 1995 for Connecticut, which finished third.
• The last regular-season tournament Dartmouth won was the Poinsettia Holiday Classic hosted by Furman eight years ago.
• Junior R.J. Griffin torched Bryant in Leede Arena for a career-high 29 points, connecting on 7-of-11 three-pointers. It was the most points for a Dartmouth player since Alex Barnett '09 tallied 30 against Harvard in January of 2009.
• Freshman forward Gabas Maldunas was named the Ivy League's co-Rookie of the Week for his performances against Vermont and Bryant. After logging nine points and seven rebounds in a loss to the Catamounts, he posted his first career double-double in the victory with 15 points and 10 boards.
Series vs. San Francisco
• This is the first game between the two schools.
• The Dons are just one of seven opponents this season that Dartmouth has never played. The other ones for certain are: Bryant, Elon, Indiana-Purdue Ft. Wayne and Longwood. The Big Green will also play two other opponents in Alaska besides the Dons for the first time, both to be determined during the tournament.
Scouting the Dons
• Since dropping its season opener, San Francisco has reeled off four straight victories, most recently a 69-63 road win at Seattle on Saturday.
• The Dons have all five starters back from last year's squad that went 19-15 and 10-4 in the WCC, its most league victories in 29 years.
• The two big men in the starting lineup, 6-9 forward Perris Blackwell and 6-8 forward Angelo Caloiaro, share the team lead at 13.4 ppg.
• Blackwell is the post player of the two, shooting 69.2 percent with all of his shots coming inside the arc. He also was fourth in the WCC last year in rebounding at 7.0 per game. Foul shooting is his Achilles heel, however, at just 36.1 percent.
• Caloiaro, meanwhile, will shoot from anywhere on the floor. Two years ago he set a school record for three-point percentage (.491), but is just 6-of-21 (.286) thus far this year. He is also active defensively, leading the team with 9.6 rebounds per game and 13 steals.
• While USF will gamble on defense a bit, with more than eight steals a game, it also has turned the ball over more than 18 times a night.
• The Dons are coached by former Kansas star and NBA player Rex Walters, now in his fourth season with a 46-53 mark at USF after spending his first two years as a head coach at Florida Atlantic.
Shootout on TV
Four national networks will show the tournament live in its entirety — Fox College Sports, YES Network, DIRECTV Sports Pak and Dish Network Multi-Sport Pak — while numerous others will show either part or all of the tourney live or recorded, including NESN which will air the championship game on tape delay. Check your local listings to find out how you can watch the tournament.
R.J. = Righteous Jumpers
Against Bryant on Nov. 29, junior R.J. Griffin buried seven three-pointers in just 11 attempts as he tallied a career-high 29 points to help Dartmouth to its first win of the season, 66-62. The seven triples were just two shy of the school record, and he scored more points than any Big Green player since Alex Barnett '09 ripped the nets for 30 in an overtime win at Harvard on Jan. 24, 2009.
Rookies of the Week
Just two weeks into the season and Dartmouth already has as many Rookie of the Week awards as it did in the previous two seasons combined. Jvonte Brooks grabbed co-honors for the Big Green after the first weekend of play as the freshman from Santee, Calif., scored eight points in his collegiate debut at Rutgers, sinking every shot he took (two field goals, four free throws), plus grabbed two rebounds and dished out a couple of assists. Before traveling to Alaska, Gabas Maldunas was the co-winner for his work in the first two home games, averaging 12 points and 8.5 rebounds. In the win over Bryant, he posted his first career double-double as well with 15 points and 10 boards.
More Rookie Talk
Brooks and Maldunas aren't the only rookies making an impact. Forward John Golden has started all three games and is averaging six points while point guard Mack McKearney leads the team with six steals and is second with five assists.
Rufful an Accomplished Thief
With three steals against Vermont, senior David Rufful vaulted himself into Dartmouth's all-time top 10 pilferers. He now has 111 for his career to put him ninth on the list. If he wants to overtake the top spot, however, he will need to average close to three steals a game for the rest of the season.
Freshman Window Washers
Although after three games, Dartmouth has been outrebounded by eight boards a game, while the bulk of the glass work being done has been performed by the rookies. Of the 76 rebounds that have been corralled by a Big Green player, 48 (63.2 percent) have been hauled in by a freshman with Gabas Maldunas leading the way with 20. Considering that the first-year guys have played 43.2 percent of the minutes, it's logical to assume they are earning their keep.
Like Looking in a Mirror
Freshman Will McConnell has a look-alike in the world of college basketball, due to the fact that his twin brother is a member of the UC Irvine squad. Both teams just happen to be playing in the Great Alaska Shootout, but there wasn't a family reunion as Reed McConnell is red-shirting this year and was not on the trip.
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