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The University of Alaska Fairbanks has canceled its BP Top of the World college basketball game.

The University of Alaska Fairbanks has its BP Top of the World college basketball match.

University said Wednesday they ‘t able to bring together teams in the competitive landscape that followed an NCAA rule change.

“The finding to call off this year’s event was not of our making or of our select,” contest director Brian Hove said. “The escalation in growth fees precipitated by the 2006 NCAA rule change has effectively priced the Classic out of the market.”

Before 2006, there were 10 official basketball in the pastures, including the Top of the World Classic and the University of Alaska Anchorage’s Great Alaska Shootout.

Rule deviations in 2006 recognized any introduction to host a many-team event; there were 45 held last year.

Alaska fit administrator Forrest Karr said the increase in tournaments critically changed how much were human being paid to participate in tournaments.

“We have worked diligently to sell on the Alaskan experience, but the landscape has changed,” Karr said. “It is now all but unreasonable to find a graduate school that will travel to Fairbanks when they can take a bus ride to a near school and catch a game pledge of $100,000, or more in some .”

Three teams had up for the Nov. 20-23 event last year: Stanford, Morehead State and Tennessee-Chattanooga. The latter two dropped out, paying a $30,000 purchase fee, to play at events closer to campuses, UAF officials said.

UAF secured commitments from Bradley, Central Florida and Austin Peay State for the playoffs, but was still shy of completing an eight-team province. Consideration was specified to even transfer one other conservatory for a six-team pasture, but that failed, too.

“We set July 1 as the cutoff date, and felt that if we not secure a team by then, we had no optimal but to let the teams currently under bond trail other options,” Karr said.