Stu Aberdeen
Tournament @ Acadia
Friday vs. Acadia
BU 14 17 22 23 - 76
AU 15 10 23 24 - 72
Starting the season on the road vs. the home team in
their opening tournament is always a challenge. That made it a little nicer to get this win.
The first quarter looked like a couple of teams playing
their first game in September. Neither offense was sharp and generally speaking
the defense at both ends is what impacted the score the most.
The second half was more fluid as both teams started to get
more into an offensive flow. Acadia
closed the lead we had built up in first half a few minutes into the 4th
quarter. I do not believe they led by more than a point before we went on a run
to push our lead to 11 points. Acadia pushed back in the final minutes and
did close the gap to 3 points, but we held on and Acadia never did get a shot
to tie the game.
Senior guard Kevin Davis led us with 22 points, 8 rebounds,
4 assists, 3 blocked shots and 2 steals in an overall fantastic performance. He
hit big shots down the stretch in the 4th quarter and made some big
plays on the defensive end. 3rd year guard Joany Castor Thadal
chipped in 16 points despite being saddled with foul trouble. 2nd
year guard DJ Ngom led us in assists with 7 while also grabbing 6 rebounds.
Saturday vs.
Carleton
BU 7 20 23 16 - 66
CU 29 27 30 21 - 107
The score looks bad, but everything is relative. They beat X
by 70 and Acadia by 61 this weekend too. We really struggled with the level of
intensity in this game for about the first 7 and half minutes. Everything was a
level faster & more physical than we were used as we found ourselves down
22-0.
From that point on there was a lot of positives to take from
this game. I thought we competed hard and executed relatively well on both ends
of the floor at times. Carleton is just REALLY good and if you breakdown at all
they make you pay…usually it costs you 3 points! They are the best team I have
coached against in my career with the possible exception of Syracuse who had
several NBA guys on it…but I am still not sure they are not a better team than
Syracuse was.
Freshman guard Zion Vervroegen led us in scoring with 12
points. Z is a bit of the under the radar recruit who really has practiced well
since the beginning and had a very nice 1st weekend. 2nd
year guard Nervens Demosthene played his best game of the weekend vs. Carleton
scoring 11 points and adding 3 assists.
Sunday vs. St.
Francis Xavier
BU 20 22 22 12 - 76
X 22 22 23 20
- 87
This was an uptempo game from the start with a lot of guards
who can shoot the ball. X just made more shots than us. We
rebounded ball pretty well as both 4th year forward Andrew Howarth
and 2nd year forward Jordan Thornhill did a good job rebounding and
defending X’s bigs.
For the better part of the first 35 minutes both teams were
just trading hoops before we went cold in the final 5 minutes of the game. X
stepped up and made some big shots to put the game away. It was a disappointing end to the weekend,
but X definitely earned and deserved the win.
Joany had a nice game scoring 26 points. He knocked down 7
three point shots in this game and most from very deep range. Nobody works
harder on their game than Joany and going 14-28 from the 3 point line while being
closely guarded was no fluke.
Kevin was exceptional again scoring 20 points, grabbing 7
rebounds, dishing out 5 assists to go along with 3 steals.
Next action for us in at the Naismith Tournament October 11,
12 & 13 at the U of Waterloo.
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