UVic finishes fourth at U Sports tournament
The sports world is littered with so-called Golden Generations that instead turned to silver, bronze or even rust. The University of Victoria Vikes men’s basketball team, loaded with rookies and sophomores and which returns most of its roster for at least the next few seasons, doesn’t want to end up as one of them.
Perhaps in that way, the fashion in which the season ended was a necessary wake-up call. The Vikes, considered the ascendant team of the next few years, went into the 2023 U Sports national tournament in Halifax as the top-ranked squad but needed a late three-pointer and a defensive stop to survive a one-point victory over the eighth-seed University of Prince Edward Island Panthers in the quarter-finals before decisive losses to the Atlantic-champion St.
“Three years ago we lost in the Canada West quarter-finals. Last year we became Canada West champions but lost in the first round at nationals. This year we took one step further to the national semifinals,” said Beaucamp. UVic hasn’t done that since 1997 when led by the dominance of forward Eric Hinrichsen, the Campbell River product, who went on to represent Canada in the 2000 Sydney Olympics. UVic won seven consecutive in the 1980s with rosters that included Olympians Eli Pasquale, Gerald Kazanowski and Greg Wiltjer.
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