The winning basket gave Maffia 40 points on the night
The best players don’t just live for these moments, they crave them. Guard Diego Maffia, the Canada West MVP and leading scorer in the country, coolly hit a three-point shot with 30 seconds remaining to save the top-ranked University of Victoria Vikes in a 93-92 thriller over the eighth-seed University of Prince Edward Island Panthers on Friday night at Scotiabank Centre in Halifax, N.S., in the U Sports men’s basketball quarter-finals.
“We did what we have been being all season — being resilient and finding a way to get a result,” said Beaucamp. The Vikes and X-Men meet in one national semifinal game today at 4 p.m. PT that will present a different sort of challenge than the Panthers. UVic led 53-47 at the half. The Panthers tied it 77-77 early in the fourth quarter and UPEI pulled ahead and led 82-79 with six minutes remaining.
In the other quarter-finals, the Carleton Ravens dynasty also survived a scare by a team making its first-ever appearance in the national tournament. A three-point attempt at the buzzer by the Quebec-champion and sixth-seed L’Université du Québec à Montréal Citadins missed to allow the Ravens to escape with a 73-71 victory. Carleton has won 16 national championships since 2003, 10 of the past 11, including the last three in a row.
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