Jayden Stephens
Alessandro Boggio - Thymos Capture
69
UNBC Timberwolves NBC 0
90
Winner TRU WolfPack TRU 0
UNBC Timberwolves NBC
0
69
Final
90
TRU WolfPack TRU
0
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
UNBC Timberwolves NBC 15 22 14 18 69
TRU WolfPack TRU 24 23 15 28 90

Game Recap: Men's Basketball | | Michael Reeve

WolfPack never trail in eighth win of the season

QUICK FIRE
  • Jayden Stephens and Jaeden Bynoe led the way for the Thompson Rivers WolfPack men's basketball team in a big 90-69 victory of the UNBC Timberwolves, improving their record to 8-4 ahead of the winter break.
     
DIFFERENCE MAKERS
  • Stephens and Bynoe both had 19 points in the victory to lead the way for the 'Pack. Cason Scott added 11, while Dami Farinloye chipped in with 10. Bynoe was on fire all night, going 7-8 from the floor and 4-5 from long-range.
  • Justin Sunga poured in 13 for UNBC in the loss, while Chris Ainsley had 12 and six rebounds.

HOW IT HAPPENED
  • Stephens scored the first seven points of the quarter for TRU while Bynoe netted the final seven as the WolfPack led 24-15 after one. Jayden Green added four to complete the same name trifecta. UNBC got points from seven different players but nobody on the team made more than a single basket in the opening frame.
  • TRU outscored UNBC by a single point in the second - 23-22 - to extend their lead to 10, 47-37 at halftime. Farinloye scored eight points in the quarter to lead the 'Pack offense. Stephens had the highlight of the night, throwing down a monstrous one-handed jam over a defender to give him 11 points at the break. Chris Ainsley drilled a couple big threes in the frame to keep UNBC within touching distance. 
  • A low scoring third quarter saw TRU extend their advantage by a single point for the second-straight frame leading 62-51. Sunga scored 10 in the quarter for UNBC, who at one point went more than seven minutes without a made shot from the floor. Gavin Reis rocked the rim with a two-handed jam, and Cason Scott joined the 'Pack dunk party with a transition slam of his own. Stephens rattled home back-to-back threes to have 17 points through three.
  • Bynoe drilled back-to-back three pointers to essentially ice the contest early in fourth quarter as TRU pulled away to win 90-69 on home floor. Stephens and Bynoe both finished with a game-high 19 points.
 
NOTABLE
  • Jaeden Bynoe just missed setting a program record. Sitting at 7-7 from the floor Bynoe missed a three pointer late in the contest. The program record for makes in a game without a miss is 7, held by Brett Rouault (Jan 10, 2015 vs UBCO).
  • TRU enters the semester break with a program record eight wins, sitting at 8-4 good for third spot in the competitive CW Pacific Division.
 
QUOTABLE (WolfPack head coach Chad Jacobson)
  • "We talked about the importance of playing for 40 minutes and putting together a complete game and the guys did that, they got off to a really good start and competed for 40 minutes. That was probably the first game that we actually played for 40 minutes in a long time and it was just a really good effort."
  • ON THE 8-4 START "I think big picture we are happy with the start. There are some games looking back that we would like the chance to go back and play again but at the end of the day it's been our goal from day one to keep getting better and play our best basketball come February and we feel like we are moving in the right direction."
  • ON THE PLAY OF JAEDEN BYNOE "JB was great tonight. He had a great week of practice, was prepared and then when his number was called tonight he was ready to go from the start. He's a very smart basketball player, he's very savvy and makes us better offensively."
  • That's the great thing about depth, we have a lot of different guys on this team that can step up and give us quality minutes on any given night and I think that really showed tonight."

UP NEXT
  • The WolfPack have wrapped up the first half of their schedule and will return to action on January 9, 2026 when they welcome the UBCO Heat to the TCC in a game that gets underway at 7:30 p.m.
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