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hmmmmm .... Doornekamp instigating Dessereault into an unsportsmanlike. Surprise, surprise ...

Doornekamp was the unsportsman since he purposely hooked Dax and pulled him down ... The good natured Dessaurault would hardly retaliate unless provoked! Sorry but Carleton pulled a cheap game ... slashing, hacking and taking shots at Ottawa all night in full view of supportive officiating ... Why does no one ever talk about this side of the Carleton squad ... very classless!

anonymous, this was my point exactly and i agree with you wholeheartedly. Many people, however, somehow feel that Carleton is God's gift to Canadian basketball and we can question nothing they do. I think if mics could be placed near the court and zoom-in tape distributed, CIS officials and fans might hear and see a very different side of the Carleton squad and their fearless Mike Moser candidate. And as for COY .. just because your team goes undefeated (which was not a stretch, in this case), it is not a foregone conclusion that you should win it. There are many more criteria and there were some great coaching jobs done this year in the OUA East, most notably by Mike Katz, the deserving winner. Likewise, there are many criteria for the selection of the wild card entry and it should not be a foregone conclusion that a fourth team from Ontario will not get it. I hope that the powers that be take a long, close look comparing every parameter they can think of (perhaps those outside of what are traditionally used) to decide the best possible team to make it in last to the national draw.

This is just an observation of statistics and what I've seen in person this year. Aaron Doornekamp knows how to work the referees similar to Dave Smart, getting crucial calls at critical points in the games. If you look over the course of the season, and see who fouls out of games Carleton plays, notice the unusually strong amount of foul calls put against teams starting power forwards.

Power forwards are usually placed on Doornekamp to cover him in the perimeter, leaving most teams true centers to covering Jean-Marie, Aaron Chapman or Kevin McLeery. However every power forward in the league seems to foul out every time they play Carleton, specifically in the OUA East.

Check out the following players whenever they play Carleton:
Toronto:Nick Snow, Ahmed Nazmi, Ryerson:Joey Imbrogno,
York: Wes Anderson, Matt Terejko Ottawa:Nem Baletic, Dave Labentowicz
Queens:Jon Ogden, Nick DiDonato

These players all are faced with the daunting task of covering Doornekamp, most of which finished the game with 4-5 fouls. Without some outside help, you cannot be telling me that every player can only foul Doornekamp as a way of playing defense. These are some solid defensive players, and while Doornekamp is the class of the OUA East, he is consistently the recipient of questionnable calls favouring the ravens.

As a team Carleton plays an up-tempo, physical brand of defensive basketball. Their downfall on offense has been when teams re-paid the favour, trapping and wearing down their big men playing a physical brand of basketball. Ottawa seemed most sucessful at doing this to Carleton over the past few years, and a very physical Western Mustangs might provide the same thing.

I don't know what game you two obviously disgruntled Ottawa U fans were watching, but from where I sat the Gee-Gees were giving as good as they were getting.
And as far as the officiating goes, they almost lost control of the game.
There was a lot of extra-curricular stuff going on from BOTH sides that wasn't called.
Hence, the tempers were flaring up for both team to the boiling point.
And Dax isn't the happy go lucky guy you make him out to be...I have seen him swing those big elbows of his at opponents heads in games that did not involve Carleton.
He may be a teddy bear off court, but on the floor he is a grizzly.

being disgruntled and being delusionary is two different things ... i my friend can attest to being disgruntled for obvious reasons ... you on the other hand have no excuse if indeed you were at the game ... furthermore any 'full' witted person realizes that when you are provoked or chided it is usually in your best interest to at the very least attempt to fight fire with fire ... bullying and aggression is never Ottawa's first course of action ... i'm not sure Carleton can say the same ... but oh well ... this is the type of play that will not help elevate the profile of CIS basketball!

Like I said before, the officiating was a problem for both teams.
Too much stuff was let go early, and the game degenerated somewhat because of that.
And if you want to talk about bullying tactics, the Ravens have nothing on Bob Bain's York Lions.
When York had the likes of Dan Eves and Jordan Foebel, it was 40 minutes of WWE.

No mention of Ottawa coach David DeAveiro grabbing the ball and throwing it away from an official, not once but twice!? Is that classy? Fortunately the second time he was assessed a technical which allowed the Ravens to extent their third quarter lead from 8 to 12.