Playoffs Out of Reach for 15-16

Saturday @ McGill

BU          17      5     15     9    -   46
MU         15     20    22    19   -   76

This loss eliminated us from the playoff race. You are definitely playing with fire when you are depending on beating the best team in your conference in their gym to keep your playoff hopes alive.

In the first quarter, we played pretty well and played the way we wanted to play. Unfortunately, that changed in the 2nd quarter as we allowed McGill to force us to play the way they wanted us to play. They took us out of our rhythm offensively and we ended up either turning over the ball on forced plays or taking contested shots. Lots to learn from a game like this!

The game was decided in the 2nd quarter and the first 5 minutes of the 3rd quarter. We never could bounce back in that time and could not find an answer for McGill. A quick timeout in the 3rd quarter did not help and we found ourselves in a situation trying to shake things up with different line-ups. We ended subbing 5 guys at a time to essentially run time-outs on the bench as the game was being played before subbing the same 5 guys back into the game in the hopes that we could stay close enough to make a run at them in the 4th. We did get a 25 point deficit back to 15 at one point, but the success was brief. Bottom line is we lost to a better team. It is a process and not always an easy one.

Abdul & Duncan led us in scoring with 11 points apiece. Abdul had 7 rebounds while Big Jonah added 6. Not much else to speak of statistically as the score would suggest. We shot 20% for the game and McGill had a lot to do with that.

Thursday we finish our season at Laval. The game means nothing to either team with regards to playoff match-ups. Laval finishes 4th and we finish 5th. Laval will face McGill in the opening round of the playoff and might be McGill's toughest match up based on how their games have gone this season. Regardless, we will be playing for pride on Thursday!

I will keep you posted!
Rod