With interior and exterior now complete, Cascades ready to find their flow in...
ABBOTSFORD — In a manner of speaking, you could call the last season’s edition of the Fraser Valley Cascades men’s basketball team a group of long shots. In a literal sense, the tag certainly doesn’t...
View ArticleFreshman Crisp plays like vet, Vikes outlast TWU in Canada West opener
LANGLEY — Shaylyn Crisp scored on the first two shots of her CIS career, but the pure freshman from Victoria’s Claremont Secondary saved her best for last, capturing the moment in her team’s Canada...
View Article‘Birds’ shot-blocker Bains takes coach’s words to heart, finds near-permanent...
VANCOUVER — UBC Thunderbirds head men’s basketball coach Kevin Hanson had a pretty simple off-season assignment for Balraj Bains when he parted ways for the summer with his soon-to-be fifth-year senior...
View Article‘Birds rookie Malcolm Williams surrounded by history as CIS career gets off...
VANCOUVER — On the night that the current Canada West season opened back in mid-November at UBC’s War Memorial Gym, the hardcourt mojo was so thick in the air that it almost seemed like the gods of...
View ArticleBasketball ‘Birds hit floor, new group preps for NCAA Div. 1 Eastern...
VANCOUVER — The UBC Thunderbirds men’s basketball team began official practices Monday in advance of its Sept. 8 exhibition home opener against NCAA Div. 1 Eastern Washington. “I’ve asked the...
View ArticleCW hoops Friday round-up: UBC’s No. 2 men play escape artists, Vikes’ women...
The No. 2 team in CIS men’s basketball almost got KO’d on an Okanagan Friday night in Kelowna. All the UBC Thunderbirds can do tonight before they hit the pillows is thank post David Wagner. The South...
View ArticleFINAL 1.26.13 Uni notebook: Saturday’s look at CIS action involving B.C.’s...
Welcome to Saturday night around the CIS. Here’s our complete wrap for the evening on all the doings in the CIS for B.C. schools competing in the Canada West. It now includes volleyball, basketball and...
View ArticleUni hoops, UBC volleyball: Cascades earn school’s first division title, Birds...
ABBOTSFORD — The second season begins Thursday for Abbotsford’s Fraser Valley Cascades, however Al Tuchscherer wanted his team to cherish the importance of a victory on the last Saturday of the regular...
View ArticleUBC bids to host CIS Final 8 men’s basketball, proposal features games at the...
VANCOUVER — How old does footage from the Canada-Soviet Summit series look these days? Ditto for the Munich Olympics, news reels from the fall of Saigon, and even Michael Jordan’s first game in the...
View ArticleUBC men’s basketball ends drought, awarded host status for 2016 CIS Final 8...
VANCOUVER — If it’s been a hard past couple of days to be a die-hard UBC sports fan, amid reports that several of the school’s flagship Thunderbirds teams could go the way of the Dodo bird, there was...
View Article01.18.14: The Province’s Pacific Division and GNAC men’s and women’s...
Here’s Saturday’s men’s and women’s university basketball report. MEN’S BASKETBALL VANCOUVER — The Victoria Vikes and the Fraser Valley Cascades are doing their best to gain separation and make the...
View Article02.02.14: The Province’s weekend CIS and NCAA men’s and women’s basketball...
Here’s the story from men’s and women’s CIS and NCAA basketball on Saturday night: MEN’S BASKETBALL Josh Wolfram knocked down the shot of his life Saturday. The former South Kamloops Titans standout...
View Article02.02.14 Uni notes: UBC’s Luc Bruchet sizzles in U-Dub mile, plus volleyball,...
We’ve brought you women’s hockey, as well as the full picture in basketball. Capping off our extensive weekend of university sports coverage is the rest of the big news, from track and field, men’s...
View ArticleMEN’S HOOPS: Nixon picks up his game, ‘Birds sweep Heat to hold Pac D’s final...
VANCOUVER — Tommy Nixon has picked the perfect time to pick up his game. The UBC Thunderbirds forward scored a game-high 25 points Saturday, lifting the hosts to an 85-77 win over the UBC Okanagan Heat...
View Article02.22.14 University notebook: Saturday brings trio of sudden-elim scenarios...
A jammed-packed weekend of Canada West playoff action dominated the university headlines. Here’s our look: MEN’S BASKETBALL The UBC Thunderbirds will play a third-and-deciding game in its best-of-three...
View Article2014 Ken Shields nominee: Courage to speak helps lift UFV’s Jasper Moedt to...
ABBOTSFORD — Listen to Jasper Moedt speak about his year in hell, and you come away with the realization that there is indeed an extraordinary way to describe the joys of ordinary. “You never know...
View ArticleSunday blues for blue-and-gold ladies: Volleyball dynasty ends at six, hoops...
A bid for history, one built on the backs of the six remarkable championship seasons that preceded it, ended in a most sudden and unpredictable fashion Sunday evening at the University of Regina....
View ArticleOver three decades later, UBC coaching record gets set to move from Mullins...
VANCOUVER — There was a day in the spring of 1982 when UBC’s legendary men’s basketball coach, Dr. Peter Mullins, took a promising young high school player named Kevin Hanson on a recruiting trip...
View ArticleClub hoops guru Pasha Bains joins UBC staff as ‘Birds look to re-fortify...
VANCOUVER — Earlier this week, on one of the basketball courts located within the Richmond Olympic Oval, Pasha Bains pulled on a UBC Thunderbirds golf shirt, then reached out to receive a hug from a...
View ArticleUNI NOTES 02.09.15: UBC men’s hoops sees greatest turnaround in program history
VANCOUVER — When the calendar turned to 2015, the UBC Thunderbirds men’s basketball team was mired in ninth-place in the Canada West’s 11-team Pioneer Division standings. From the dire depths of...
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