wjjordan@watdragon.UUCP (W. Jim Jordan) (03/03/86)
OK, after a fast and furious week of basketball, the six conference champions and wild card teams for the CIAU regional tournaments this weekend have been determined. First, the conference playoffs (we'll do it from west to east--I am a westerner despite going to an Ontario university). Canada West: Final Lethbridge Pronghorns 86 Saskatchewan Huskies 76 Great Plains: Semifinals Brandon Bobcats 86 Winnipeg Wesmen 76 Manitoba Bisons 103 Regina Cougars 77 Final Manitoba def. Brandon (sorry, no score available). Brandon had to win to qualify for the CIAU tournament because the team was on probation this season. Ontario West: Semifinals Waterloo Warriors 77 McMaster Marauders 55 Western Ontario Mustangs 87 Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks 75 Final Waterloo 71 Western 66 (*not* 64-59 as our "National Newspaper", Toronto's _The_Grope_and_Flail_, had it) Ontario East: Semifinals Toronto Varsity Blues 84 Laurentian Voyageurs 81 (2OT) York Yeomen 112 Queen's Golden Gaels 52 Final York 67 Toronto 63 Quebec: Semifinal McGill Redmen def. Trois Rivieres Patriotes Final McGill 68 Concordia Stingers 66 Atlantic: Semifinals Prince Edward Island Panthers def. Acadia Axemen Dalhousie Tigers def. St. Francis Xavier X-Men Final PEI 65 Dalhousie 58 The rankings (16 teams instead of the usual Top Ten): Previous ranking is in parentheses. 1. Manitoba ( 1) 2. Victoria ( 2) 3. Waterloo ( 8) 4. York ( 5) 5. Lethbridge ( 7) 6. PEI (NR) 7. McGill (NR) 8. Winnipeg ( 3) 9. Concordia ( 4) 10. Dalhousie ( 6) 11. Western Ontario ( 9) 12. Saskatchewan (10) 13. St. Francis Xavier (NR) 14. Calgary (NR) 15. Acadia (NR) 16. Toronto (NR) The regional tournament draws: West Regional (University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta) (13) St. Francis Xavier vs. ( 2) Victoria ( 9) Concordia vs. ( 5) Lethbridge Mid-West Regional (University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) (16) Toronto vs. ( 1) Manitoba (10) Dalhousie vs. (12) Saskatchewan Mid-East Regional (University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario) ( 8) Winnipeg vs. ( 7) McGill (14) Calgary vs. ( 3) Waterloo East Regional (Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia) (11) Western Ontario vs. ( 6) Prince Edward Island ( 4) York vs. (15) Acadia The four tournament winners advance to the Final Four, hosted by Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. For the first time under this playoff format there are two teams from each of Quebec and Ontario East in regional tournaments. The Atlantic and Canada West conferences are sending their usual complement of four teams each. Great Plains and Ontario West have two qualifiers each (in previous years they have had three, due to the weakness of thee Quebec and Ontario East conferences). I'm not offering any predictions (publicly, anyway). jim -- DEFINITION: Honeywell DPS8/49: The world's most expensive print spooler. W. Jim Jordan CANADA POST (3 weeks): c/o Conrad Grebel College, Waterloo, Ont., N2L 3G6 USENET (overnight): ...!watmath!watdragon!wjjordan