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Photos: Great Alaska Shootout, Friday, November 27, 2015

It was a little like Harry Potter conquering the Hungarian Horntail. The UAA men's basketball team, always the underdog at the Great Alaska Shootout, took down a Division I Dragon on Friday, outdueling the bigger Drexel Dragons 71-65 in a physical battle at the Alaska Airlines Center.

The win puts the Seawolves in Saturday's 2 p.m. fourth-place game against San Jose State. The Seawolves are 37-76 all-time in the tournament that features seven Division I teams plus the Division II UAA; in six of the previous 37 Shootouts, they have won two games to finish in fourth place.

Read more: Seawolves defeat the Dragons in Great Alaska Shootout

All five starters scored in double figures and Toledo held off Loyola Chicago's comeback effort to advance to the GCI Great Alaska Shootout. The Rockets beat the Ramblers 82-74 Friday at the Alaska Airlines Center.

"It means a great deal to our program to be playing for a Great Alaska Shootout championship," Toledo coach Tod Kowalczyk said. "We don't take that lightly. We understand the prestige and the tradition and the names and the teams that have come before us to play in a championship game. We're excited about that opportunity."

Read more: Balanced scoring leads Toledo to Shootout semifinal win over Loyola Chicago

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