The Thompson Rivers University WolfPack men's basketball season is over. The Pack went to Saskatchewan to take on the Huskies in a Canada West 'play in' contest on Friday (Feb 14). They were beaten 71-58 at the PAC.
HIGHLIGHTS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBwzi2vH5IQ&feature=youtu.be
Holding the WolfPack to under 20 points in all four quarters, the Huskies defence limited the WolfPack to shooting just 32.8 per cent from the floor as a team while also grabbing 56 rebounds to the visitors' 32, including a 20-6 advantage in offensive boards.
"I thought we did what we had to do to try and keep the game close but at the end of the day they made more plays than we did and they beat us on the glass," said WolfPack head coach
Scott Clark. "That's a credit to them, they played hard and their effort was great but I'm proud of what my guys did and their effort as well. At the end of the day if you give up 20 second-chance points that's just too many."
Alexander Dewar led a balanced Huskie offence with 18 points in the game.
Emmanuel Akintunde scored 14 and pulled down 11 boards for the double-double while
JT Robinson added 11 points and six assists.
Playing in what was the final game of his WolfPack career, fifth-year guard Micheal Rouault was electric for Thompson Rivers scoring 23 points and adding seven rebounds and four assists. Another fifth year,
Anton Bilous, was the only other player to crack double digits for his squad, finishing with 10 points. Tyus DeVries had eight points, six rebounds and three assists.
All thoughts of a WolfPack comeback were put to bed in a third quarter that saw the Huskies limit the visitors to just 9 points over 10 minutes.
Saskatchewan made the advantage 20 halfway through the fourth thanks to a three-pointer from Dewar and from there they were able to run out the clock for the victory.
Rouault, Bilous,
Joe Davis and
Kyrin Cybenko saw their Canada West careers come to an end with the loss.
(with help from Saskatchewan Sports Information)