Dalhouise 78, Acadia 46 Holding the Axemen to just 6 first-quarter points, the Tigers rolled to leads larger than 30 before the third quarter was over in capturing their second AUS championship in three seasons with a go-away victory at the Halifax Metro Center. 6'1" Simon Farine led all scorers with 24 points and added 8 steals and 6 steals, leading the Tigers into the CIS Final 8 in his fifth and final season. 6'9" Joe Schow had 11 points and 10 rebounds in another solid performance inside while first-yeat Tiger Juleous Grant had 14 points. Dal once again shut down their opponents top offensie threat had only 15 points and turned it over 6 times.
The CIS Final 8 seeding committee made up of Saint Mary's Ross Quackenbush, Rod Gilpin of Bishop's, Mike Katz of the University of Toronto and Dan Vanhooren of Calgary and chaired by James Hillis of Regina meet via conference call at 5 PM ET today to decide the 8th and final "wild card" entrant into the tournament and then the seedings. We hope to have this information early this evening as the lead up to the return of the CIS Nationals to Halifax, beginning this Friday afternoon, continues.
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get used to this folks.. this is what we can expect to see at Nationals next week.. thanks CBU
Looks good on Cape Breton,eh?
What was the problem, Charters?
Oh yeah....it's you!
im no CBU fan but as an AUS fan and fan of the best possible tournament, having CBU go down to Acadia really sucks..
Essentially the #1 seed gets a bye to the semis now.
Props to the Axemen for a big win, but lightning wont be striking twice
Capers get wildcards, suckers.
A better idea would be for the AUS to have assigned the regular season champion the "host" berth, and the AUS playoff champion the other spot. This would have done several things - including making the AUS final an important game if a semi final upset were to occur - and also would force a cinderalla like Acadia to win out the weekend to get in. Finally it would protect the integrity of the AUS in the minds of the rest of the country by having our two best teams in the Final 8.
I actually like this idea.. A team like Acadia should definetly have to win the championship to get in, same as the mid major schools in the NCAA
I think AUS fans struggle to respect Acadia becasue of the 9 game losing streak, but they didn't have Justin Boutlier throughout most of it and I think we saw how valuable he is over the weekend. As for the blow out loss, it's not a hard formula. Three games in three days, knowing you've already clinched a trip to nationals, knowing you're penciled in as the eight seed regardless of the outcome, get down by 25 early against a dominating team, i think we can forgive them for mailing it in in the second half. But their performance against CBU was incredible, and it's gonna be fun seeing Owen Klassen on a national stage.
CBU's performance against Acadia was incredible too.
It was the WTF moment of the whole season.
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