Gaiters Dropped at McGill

Saturday @ McGill

BU        18   16   14   12  -  60
MU       26   13   17   22  -  78

 McGill played very well and looked like a team that had a week to prepare to play us...which they did. They shot the ball very well, did a very good job defensively and had worn us down by the 4th quarter. McGill's play, injuries, foul trouble & the  fact that it was our 3rd game of the week all contributed to this. We have split 4 games with McGill this year and the total point difference in 4 games is a mere 2 points. Lost is the opportunity to finish in 1st place, but with our league home court advantage guarantees nothing in the playoffs.

McGill shot the ball well all game (11-21 from the 3 point line), but were particularly good in the 1st quarter. They opened up an 8 point lead, but we held them scoreless for the 1st 6 minutes of the 2nd quarter before letting things slip a bit in the final few minutes of the 2nd quarter finding ourselves down by 5 at the half.

Co-captain Jeremy Leonard-Smith

The 3rd quarter went back and forth before the final seconds of the quarter. We executed well out of a time out to score with 3 seconds left before McGill launched a 3 point shot from their own 3 pt line that was nothing but net. We found ourselves down 8 once again after they made a 70 foot bomb. We cut into the lead to start the the 4th, but McGill pulled ahead by 11 with about 5 minutes left with a long 3 pointer at the end of the shot clock. From that point we could never re-group.

Mike, Jeremy & Tim were our double digit scorers with 19, 13 & 11 respectively. We struggled to much production anywhere else. Onnex played  for the first time in close to a month, but failed to score in 13 minutes off the bench. We also missed having PK (Patrik Kabongo) in the line-up with an ankle sprain. We will need these guys back to make our push in the playoffs.

This coming Thursday we will play our final regular season game at Concordia and will likely play them in the first round of the playoffs as well the following Wednesday. However, this game should determine where the playoff game will be played...win and we will finish second at host at least the first round.

Hope to see a few more Gaiter fans out at ConU!
Go Gaiters!!