As spring nears, but namely March, my attentions are shifted squarely over to basketball with university and college playoffs on the way. Nothing beats this time of year, really. If you can find anything in sports that rivals the NCAA's March Madness I'm fully prepared to call you a dirty liar.
Fully understanding that most people who happen to saunter by this little space on the web aren't overly interested in my thoughts on CIS basketball, I'll save you my feelings that the UBC Thunderbirds are going to undefeated into the national tournament.
What I will tell you, though, is that the annual all-Canadian high school game is just around the corner and the nominees have been named for the final two rosters.
The folks at HoopLife.ca are the ones that put this on year to year. HoopLife is a manifest of the former BasketballJones.ca, which I used to write for and contribute to. If you have any love for basketball in this country, HoopLife is something you should give love to. They've done a tremendous job covering so many angles of basketball in Canada and just the putting together of this game — a few guys committed to a big undertaking — speaks volumes.
The teams will be separated into East and West this time around. It's a particularly good crop of players in Saskatchewan and Manitoba this year. Likely represented in the all-Canadian game will be 6-foot-10 Winnipeg Adam Dobrianksy who has committed to play at New Jersey's Monmouth University next year. Potentially Nick and Dan Lother, the twin guards from Winnipeg Jeanne Sauve could be there as well. Perhaps look for one of, if not both, players to be Brandon Bobcats next season.
In Saskatchewan, 6-foot-10 Marc Van Burck of Regina's Luther was a provincial team member and a sure Div.1 prospect. Yorkton's Chris Heshka is 6-foot-5 and a solid athlete and Kai Williams, younger brother of Regina Cougar Jamal Williams, is another solid athlete coming out of "The Gap".
Watch for the game, April 8, to be on one of Canada's sports networks.
Saturday, February 25, 2006
We now switch our attention
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The Larkins jinx? I think so. UBC drops one game in the best of three to Vic the day you post this. That said, I picked UBC to snuff out every team in Hali this year and to bring chip out west for what will probably be the last time for a decade or so.
I've been looking for that old article on basketballjones.ca about the ten rules about basketball players. I remember one was about wearing silk screen jerseys and the other was about volleyball players. I've been searching google for this all morning and this is the closest link to it that I've found. If you have any idea how i could get that article i would be indebted for life :D:D!
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