Friday December 28th vs. Montreal Alumni Allstars
BU - 78
MAA - 67
This game was not actually part of the tournament. Regardless it was a good opportunity to lose a little bit of the rust that had accumulated over the last month. The game was rather uneventful, but was a good chance to get our bench some extra court time. Freshman Ryan Foster took advantage of his opportunity to play as he scored 12 points in 14 minutes. Big Mike led us with 13 points.
Saturday December 29th vs. Memorial University
BU 16 10 12 14 - 52
MUN 5 11 13 10 - 39
Defensively we were pretty good all game with a few exceptions. We managed sustain ball pressure & take Memorial's best scorers out of the game. However, we missed an inordinate amount of lay-ups that were very high % shots we normally make. It was really dumbfounding! We shot a ridiculous 19-72 from the floor and there were not many bad shots in that 72. Our offensive execution was OK and we created a lot of opportunities on the fast break with our defense. Despite that we did not reward ourselves.
Memorial never really threatened our lead as we managed to maintain the double digit lead through out. Onnex led us in scoring with 17 points, but both he & I would tell you he should of scored at least double that in a game he termed as 'the worst game he has ever played'! Regardless, his defense was solid. Big Mike had 10 points and 10 rebounds.
Sunday December 30th vs. U of Waterloo
BU 9 20 18 25 - 72
UW 24 4 16 5 - 49
Waterloo is talented and well coached, but we let them take it to us in the 1st quarter. Needless to say, as a coaching staff we were not too impressed with how we came out to play. It was not a matter of X's & O's and I conveyed that message a little less eloquently after the first quarter. It was up to the guys on the floor to take control of the game and they did that with 20-4 2nd quarter performance. The final 3 quarters we were very good defensively except for a spurt in the 3rd quarter where Waterloo knocked down three quick 3 point shots. However, we locked down defensively holding Waterloo to 5 points in the 4th and put them away with some slick 3 point shooting by Onnex, Jeremy and Ryan Foster. Ryan came off the bench to score 11 4th quarter points. Ryan definitely has a shooter's mentality and can put points up quickly.
Jeremy played his best game of the weekend scoring 17 points & grabbing 6 rebounds. Onnex added 13 & 6. Tim Hunter was a factor with 5 assists and started to assert himself on both ends of the floor.
Despite winning all our games we did not win the tournament. UQAM also won their games, but got the tournament championship due to the fact they had a much better point differential in their win over Memorial.
UQAM is our next opponent as we travel their to play them at 8pm on Sunday January 6th. This is the re-scheduled game from the first semester where an administrative mistake caused our first league game to be cancelled. We expect a very tough game and there will be no easy games the rest of the year. Hope to see a few friends, family and Alumni out at the game!
Happy New Year & and wishing everyone a prosperous 2013! GO GAITERS!!
Rod
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