men’s basketball
Men’s basketball falls five points short of comeback against GNAC leaders
January 2, 2017While most teams — the coaches, at least — hate the term “moral victory,” if there ever was one, it happened Friday night in the West Gym. After suffering a 41 point loss the night before to the Montana State University Billings Yellowjackets, the result didn’t look like it would be much better for the men’s basketball team on the second night of a back-to-back. The Clan, who sit in last in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference (GNAC), were taking on the conference-leading Western Washington Vikings, a nationally ranked team. The night before the battle with Western Washington, SFU was…
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Men’s Basketball fall 107–66 to the Yellowjackets in first conference home game
December 30, 2016Thursday night proved to be the men’s basketball team’s worst effort this season — at least on the scoreboard. They lost by 41 points — their largest deficit — and surrendered a triple digit score for only the second time…
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Men’s basketball hopes to continue rolling as they head to California
November 24, 2016After claiming back-to-back wins against Lindenwood University last weekend, the men’s basketball team heads to Riverside, CA to take on California Baptist University Friday and Concordia University Irvine Saturday. With the two wins, in four games, the men’s basketball team…
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Tyrell Lewin’s breakout performance leads Clan to win 73–72 nail-biter
November 20, 2016A timeout was called with 17.1 seconds left. SFU’s last point — a lay-up by Andrew Williamson — was 1:18 ago, while Lindenwood University just scored two free throws to put themselves within one. What followed was a long 17…
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Men’s basketball fall to UBC in Buchanan Cup
November 2, 2015The SFU men’s basketball team lost the first Buchanan Cup held in five years by a score of 101–71 last Tuesday in front of 823 fans in UBC’s War Memorial Gym. The Buchanan Cup was once an annual game between…
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SFU names new men’s basketball head coach
April 16, 2015[caption id="attachment_2306" align="alignnone" width="980"] Image courtesy of SFU Athletics[/caption] On Wednesday, SFU Athletics announced that Clan alumnus Virgil Hill will be the men’s basketball team’s seventh head coach. "I was impressed with his experience, excited by his vision, and amazed…
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SFU men’s basketball head coach James Blake resigns
March 9, 2015[caption id="attachment_1068" align="alignnone" width="2048"] Image courtesy of Ron Hole (SFU Athletics).[/caption] SFU Athletics announced today that James Blake, who has served as the head coach of the men’s basketball program for five years — and the entirety of the time…
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Men’s basketball close historical season just shy of playoffs
March 9, 2015[caption id="attachment_999" align="alignnone" width="1800"] Image Credit: Hamed Yaghoubi Shahir /The Peak[/caption] The men’s basketball team finished with a .333 record in the conference, losing 110–77 to the Western Washington Vikings in their final game, and just missing a chance to…
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Men’s basketball falls short on Senior’s Day
February 16, 2015[caption id="attachment_209" align="alignnone" width="1800"] Image Credit: Hamed Yaghoubi Shahir[/caption] On Saturday night, three SFU seniors — guards Sango Niang, Justin Cole, and Daniel Deflorimonte — played their last game in the West Gym. While the tribute before the game was…
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Men’s basketball take down Crusaders in last-minute victory
February 13, 2015[caption id="attachment_209" align="alignnone" width="1800"] Image Credit: Hamed Yaghoubi Shahir[/caption] It all came down to the wire for the Clan Thursday night. In perhaps the most exciting game of the year, the men's basketball team downed the Northwest Nazarene (NNU) Crusaders…
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