VANCOUVER — Watch the game long enough and you know that there are certain types of scenarios, which when presented on larger stages, like the postseason, often times have the potential to produce unexpected results.
University Men’s Basketball
UBC and the RPI: Hanson looks for changes next season
VANCOUVER — UBC Thunderbirds head men’s basketball coach Kevin Hanson may well have coached the best 19-1, fourth-place team in the history of his sport.
SFU Clan end 20-game GNAC losing streak with win over Wolves
BURNABY — Was there a university basketball team in North America who needed a second chance at a first win more than the Simon Fraser Clan?The 0-15 record in GNAC conference play.The 74-73 loss Thursday to Concordia in which it fell on a four-point play from the free throw line with 1.8 seconds remaining.For Simon […]
No. 2-ranked, 17-1 UBC men’s hoops at mercy of RPI numbers
VANCOUVER — They say that times are tough all over, but it seems especially so locally in Canada West men’s basketball circles.
Provenzano: Clan rookie point guard has no weak links
BURNABY MOUNTAIN — Twenty hard minutes. Work on your dribble. Work on your handle.
SFU Clan men surrender victory in final seven seconds
BURNABY — It’s the seven seconds of game clock that the Simon Fraser Clan men’s basketball team wishes it could just have back.Please.
The left & right of UBC’s real-life basketball brothers
VANCOUVER — When Jordan Jensen-Whyte began his career with the UBC Thunderbirds in the fall of 2012, he was standing in shadows deep enough to resemble the cover of night.
TSUMURA: My three big weekend take-aways
Here are my three big basketball take-away from the recently-completed university sports weekend:
UFV players Dulay, Bains escape tragedy in snowy Highway 1 spin-out
ABBOTSFORD — The Manny Moment, it turns out, is impervious to just about anything including the rage of an Fraser Valley East snowstorm. Manny Dulay and teammate Nav Bains got caught in an icy, snowy traffic jam on Highway 1 east Friday as the pair headed to Abbotsford to suit up for the Fraser Valley Cascades’ […]
UFV Cascades: Why Seniors’ Night is special
Track the daily movements of a basketball program from high school through university and the calendar, like clockwork, moves a team of dedicated, age-specific athletes through a timetable of tradition.