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2017-18 Year in Review

TEAM FACTS:

Head Coach: Craig Beaucamp (15th season)

Assistant Coach: Josh Mullen, Gary Peden

Team Captain: Jordan Charles

2017-18 Key Departures: Grant Sitton, Hassan Abdullahi

2017-18 Key Returnees: Justin Kinnear, Scott Kellum, Jake Newman

2017-18 Key Additions: Mason Loewen, Jordan Charles

U SPORTS NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS (8): 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1997

CANADA WEST CHAMPIONSHIPS (15):1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1988, 1989, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2006, 2015

U SPORTS COACH OF THE YEAR (4): 1978, 1979, 1982, 1983

CANADA WEST COACH OF THE YEAR (10): 1979, 1982, 1983, 1997, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2012, 2013, 2014

SEASON RECORD:

Canada West Record: 10-10

Canada West Playoffs: 0-1 (Lost in Play-In round) Last U SPORTS title: 1996-97

Last Canada West title: 2014-15

2016-17 VIKES HONOUR ROLL:

Taylor Montgomery-Stinson

GUY VETRIE MEMORIAL TOURNAMENT

DATE OPPONENT LOCATION RESULT Sept. 29 Guelph Victoria, BC W 87-63 Sept. 30 Carleton Victoria, BC L 99-61 Oct. 1 Concordia Victoria, BC L 90-72

PRE-SEASON EXHIBITION

DATE OPPONENT LOCATION RESULT Oct. 5 Bishop Victoria, BC W 92-84 Oct. 8 Waterloo Vancouver, BC W 94-86 Oct. 13 Fraser Valley Abbotsford, BC W 76-53 Oct. 14 Fraser Valley Abbotsford, BC W 71-58 Oct. 22 Seattle Mountaineers Victoria, BC L 83-80

CANADA WEST REGULAR SEASON (OCTOBER-NOVEMBER-DECEMBER)

DATE OPPONENT LOCATION RESULT Oct. 27 UBC Okanagan Victoria, BC L 73-72 Oct. 28 UBC Okanagan Victoria, BC W 81-52 Nov. 3 Brandon Brandon, MB L 89-82 Nov. 4 Brandon Brandon, MB L 80-70 Nov. 10 Trinity Western Langley, BC W 85-62 Nov. 11 Trinity Western Langley, BC W 93-77 Nov. 17 Saskatchewan Victoria, BC W 87-77 Nov. 18 Saskatchewan Victoria, BC W 83-76 Dec. 1 Alberta Edmonton, AB L 89-63 Dec. 2 Alberta Edmonton, AB W 92-83

HOLIDAY EXHIBITION

DATE OPPONENT LOCATION RESULT Dec. 28 Laval Quebec, QC W 67-55 Dec. 29 UQAM Quebec, QC W 69-50 Dec. 30 Laval Quebec, QC L 55-57

CANADA WEST REGULAR SEASON (JANUARY-FEBRUARY)

DATE OPPONENT LOCATION RESULT Jan. 5 Thompson Rivers Victoria, BC L 82-86 Jan. 6 Thompson Rivers Victoria, BC L 81-77 Jan. 13 Winnipeg, MB W 81-76 Jan. 14 Manitoba Winnipeg, MB W 86-76 Jan. 19 UNBC Victoria, BC L 75-69 Jan. 20 UNBC Victoria, BC W 105-77 Jan. 26 Mount Royal Victoria, BC W 100-97 Jan. 27 Mount Royal Victoria, BC L 85-79 Feb. 1 UBC Victoria, BC L 95-69 Feb. 2 UBC Vancouver, BC L 109-68

CANADA WEST PLAY-IN SERIES

DATE OPPONENT LOCATION RESULT Feb. 9 Saskatchewan Saskatoon, SK L 82-80

SEASON RECAP

With not a single fifth-year athlete on the roster, a young University Of men’s basketball team battled adversity throughout an up-and-down season to qualify for the playoffs for the 37th time in the past 41 seasons.

With the graduation of 2016-17 Canada West Third Team All-Star Grant Sitton, the Vikes turned to a scoring by committee approach in the absence of the Sitton’s 19.2 points per game.

In his 15th season in charge of the program head coach Craig Beaucamp added two veteran players to help the team. With the addition of NCAA Division 2 transfer Mason Loewen and the return of team- leader Jordan Charles from injury, the Vikes were able to bring in two immediate impact players to try and fill the hole that Sitton’s departure inevitably left.

Loewen (13.7 points-per-game), Justin Kinnear (12.4), Scott Kellum (12.1), Charles (11.9) and Jason Scully (9.9) all combined to showcase the depth in scoring that the Vikes relied upon throughout the season.

After a pre-season schedule that saw the team record five wins in eight games, the Vikes season got off to a rocky start as they were only able to pick up a split with the University of British Columbia Okanagan Heat in a pair of home games.

That difficult beginning of the season continued into the following weekend where the team was swept on the road by the Brandon Bobcats, falling in a pair of close games by scores of 89-82 and 80-70.

Starting the season 1-3 led the Vikes to begin playing some of their best basketball of the season in their remaining six games before the winter break.

The team roared out of the gates in Langley, B.C. with Scully scoring 43 points over the two games that the Vikes defeated the in dominant fashion with scores of 85-62 and 93-77.

Returning to Victoria after four-straight games on the road, The Vikes outlasted the by scores of 87-77 and 83-76 in a pair of close games with Kellum scoring 27 points in the Saturday night affair.

A trip to Edmonton to play the then No. 3 ranked team in the nation, the Alberta Golden Bears, for their final two games of the first half of the season produced both one of the Vikes toughest losses as well as perhaps their most important win of the season. The highly-ranked Golden Bears took the opening game of the weekend by a score of 89-63 but the Vikes came roaring back the very next night, going an incredible 18-31 from beyond the arc with six different players hitting a three-pointer to hand the Golden Bears their first loss of the season.

That momentum wouldn’t necessarily carry over into the second half of the season as the team went .500 in their first six games after the winter break, being swept by the Thompson Rivers WolfPack, sweeping the and splitting with the University of Northern British Columbia Timberwolves.

A 100-97 victory over the at the annual Shoot for the Cure game in which both Kinnear and Scully scored 21 points was the final victory of the season for the Vikes.

They ended regular season play with three-straight losses at the hands of those very same Cougars and the UBC Thunderbirds.

Entering the playoffs with a record of 10-10 and an RPI of .4954 earned the Vikes a ninth-place seeding and a trip to Saskatoon to face the eight-seeded Huskies in a winner-take-all Canada West Play-In game.

Trailing by as many as 18 points in the second quarter, the Vikes scrapped their way back into the game, but ultimately came up just short in an 82-80 season-ending loss. Both Loewen and Charles recorded 20 points in the defeat.

ROSTER

Jaden Touchie G 6-2 1 Victoria, BC

Taylor Montgomery-Stinson G 6-3 3 Victoria, BC

Scott Kellum G 6-1 2 Issaquah, WA

Graeme Hyde-Lay G 6-1 2 Victoria, BC

Jake Newman F 6-6 4 White Rock, B.C.

Hunter Hughes F 6-7 1 Surrey, BC

Jason Scully F 6-4 2 Victoria, BC

Jaamel Slack G 6-2 4 Victoria, BC

Jordan Charles G 6-4 4 Duncan, BC

Justin Kinnear F 6-6 4 Montreal, QC

Aaron Tesfagiorgis G 6-4 1 Calgary, AB

Andrew Goertzen F 6-9 1 Langley, BC

Hayden Lejeune F 6-8 4 Chilliwack, BC

Mason Loewen G 6-3 4 Victoria, BC Eric Hegadoren C 6-11 1 Victoria, BC

Trent Monkman G 6-2 2 Telkwa, BC