Still Alive

Friday vs. UQAM

BU            19    21    22    21  -  83
UQAM       8    22    20    25  -  75

Finally a home win in league play! We have been in position a few times to win a home league game this season, but have managed to find ways to allow teams the opportunity to come back on us or were just unfortunate with our opponents making some clutch shots at key moments. After building a 19 point 3rd quarter lead there was certainly a threat of our opponent overtaking us again.  We did not help ourselves missing some lay-ups which often provide the same result as a turnover...a quick counter attack by your opponent. UQAM took full advantage of that and erased a comfortable lead pretty quickly. We allowed UQAM to cut the lead to 4 points very briefly with about 7 minutes left. Fortunately, we quickly restored the lead to 7 and UQAM never got any closer than that.

 Pete Weston  24 pts vs. UQAM

We played hard, but it also helped that UQAM's best player was in foul trouble. Like most teams in our conference, if you take one of their top guys out of the line-up it can really impact the game! Speaking of which, Pete Weston who missed the month of January with a foot injury came back into form in this game scoring 24 points. Not having Pete had a significant effect on our team as we are just not quite good enough yet to absorb the loss of one of best players.

Jona & Abdul were solid as well, each scored 15 points. Jona had 4 assists & Abdul added 9

Freshmen Guard, Austin Macklem

rebounds. Freshmen Yassin Naji & Austin Macklem were key contributors. Yas had 7 points, 7 rebounds & 3 assists. He is a 6'8 kid who can play just about any position defensively & is pretty versatile offensively. He has a chance to be very good. Austin gave us a huge boost in the 2nd half knocking down three 3 point shots and scoring 11 points. We see flashes from him and hopefully this game was sign of things to come.

Once again we had a  very good home crowd. It was the Shoot for the Cure night in support of the fight against Breast Cancer. Thanks to everyone in our community who have done such a great job helping us support this cause over the years.

Freshmen Forward, Yassin Naji

We currently sit in 5th place and not in a playoff position. However, Laval did lose & we did win so we are still alive for another week. Friday Laval hosts McGill and Saturday we host ConU. We need to have Laval lose and our team beat Concordia to stay in playoff contention. Each week we can play meaningful games is a bonus for our team at this point!

Stay tuned!
Rod