Tough Start to League Play

Thursday @ UQAM

BU           12     14    17    32   -  75
UQAM     21    14    16    28   -  79

Jona...25 pts & 6 assists

As you can tell from the line score above, we essentially lost the game in the 1st quarter. We allowed ourselves to get bullied in the first quarter by an older crew. Regardless, I was happy our guys continued to battle despite a not so great start.

The 4th quarter got pretty exciting as we closed a double digit UQAM lead to 2 in the last couple of minutes. A couple of untimely turnovers hurt our cause, but overall our guys showed good poise. Jona almost single handedly brought us back scoring 20 points in the 4th quarter.  Unfortunately, it was not quite enough.

Jona led all scorers with 25 points & 6 assists. Dave added 18 & 7 rebounds. Abdul had 17 points and 6 rebounds while fellow freshman Yassin Naji collected a career high 11 rebounds.


Saturday vs. McGill (CIS #3)

BU          16    19    19    14   -   68
MU         20    26    24    26   -   94

Pete Weston...19 pts vs. McGill

We had trouble defending McGill all night. Even worse, we could not protect our own backboard as they had 24 offensive rebounds to our 21 defensive rebounds. The lack of rebounding combined with the 6 more turnovers than they had turned into 31 more shots for McGill than we attempted. Impossible to win with those stats and amazing that we actually hung around in the game that long...it was an 8 point game midway through the 3rd quarter.

McGill is very good and I would say could be ranked higher than #3 in the CIS. We competed for stretches, but as we found out against Carleton...the best teams in the CIS do not take possessions off. We are not there yet, but are getting better with each passing week.

Pete was our top scorer with 19 points. Jona & Abdul each kicked in 12 while Dave had a quiet 10 points.

Saturday we host Laval. They have some talented seniors who are always a challenge to stop. Defensively we will have to make some strides this week!

I will keep you posted.
Rod