Tag: Basketball
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Analyzing the current state of the Brock Badgers
Jacob Smith The Brock Badgers made back-to-back OUA championships in the 2019 and 2021 season taking a silver in 2021 and a OUA championship and national silver in 2020. Since the constant battles of Brock and TMU, other powers have risen to the top and Brock is left to find a new identity under new…
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Analyzing the current state of the Queen’s Gaels
Jacob Smith Last year there were two women’s basketball teams who stood above them all, and they met in the OUA and national championship final. The Carleton Ravens finished second in the OUA East division and won the OUA and the national championship, and the team that finished first in the division and met them…
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BlackJacks Take Season Opener Over Champs
Jacob Smith The Ottawa BlackJacks kicked off their 2023 CEBL season the best way they could, getting a win over the defending champs. The 95-93 victory came with a big fourth quarter rally to erase a double-digit deficit, and now the BlackJacks are 1-0. The game started out well for the Brampton Honey Badgers, specifically…
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A One Time Thing or One Thing To Come?
Jacob Smith You see what the Washington Mystics did to the New York Liberty on Friday night and you think, is there not as clear a division between the top teams? Then you see what the Liberty and Aces did the rest of the weekend and you think nah the top are the top, at…
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Port City Fog takes opener over Freeze
Jacob Smith What a game. The Freeze come back from down 12 in the third quarter to take and hold onto the lead in the final minutes of the fourth quarter and get the win in the first game of the 2023 MWBA season. Kylee Speedy and Kylee Kilpatrick shined throughout the game leading their…
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Warriors repeat? Celtics time? NBA Playoffs Round 1 Preview
Jacob Smith No feeling like the start of the NBA playoffs. Four games each day, best of seven series and the first glimpse at who can legitimately make a playoff run. The Hawks and Heat claimed the last two seeds in the east while the Lakers and Timberwolves earned their spot in the West. With…
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Here’s why U SPORTS conferences should bring back the All-Star Game
Jacob Smith So we award all-stars of each conferences, but what gets done with that? Let me tell you what could be done with it and how it could benefit the league. All-Star games are loved because they’re a collection of the top talent a league has to offer, and a chance for fans to…
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Jenneke Pilling the all-around leader
Jacob Smith Jenneke Pilling came to Brock Women’s Basketball when coach Rao first started his tenure as head coach, and now she is an OUA champ, U SPORTS silver medalist and looking to build on it alongside coach Rao as the 2021 OUA season gets underway in November. The Windsor transfer 5th year guard has…
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Olivia Fiorucci soaking in knowledge on 7-0 Badgers
Jacob Smith The Brock Badgers are 7-0 entering the holiday break, sitting atop the western division in the OUA. They are getting it done on the boards and using their passing to create good looks offensively. One of the assets the Badgers have used quite heavily is forward Olivia Fiorucci, playing her first year with…
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Canada Defeats Dominican Republic 95-75 in World Cup Qualifier
Jacob Smith The Canadian Senior Men’s National Team defeated the Dominican Republic 95-75 on Friday Night in a 2023 FIBA World Cup Olympic Qualifier game. Canada moves to 5-0 in Group C with the Dominican at 3-2. Canada started the first quarter from the perimeter making three of their first four baskets from outside. A Shai Gilgeous-Alezander…
Recap The Court 