Chilliwack sisters will be counted on as UFV hosts Canada West basketball championships
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ABBOTSFORD — Twelve of the top women’s basketball teams from across Canada will converge on the UFV Athletic Centre in Abbotsford this week for the Canada West women’s basketball championships, making it the biggest sporting event the university has ever held.
UFV athletic director Steve Tuckwood says it’s a great opportunity to showcase the very best university basketball in Canada.
“We know the history of great teams and players at the high school level,” Tuckwood said in a UFV news release. “Now we get to showcase the university level. You will not see better basketball in Canada than what will be in our gym come Wednesday.”
The UFV Cascades enter the four-day tournament as the No. 3 seed after capping off the Canada West regular season schedule with a stellar 17-3 record. They tied the UBC Thunderbirds for the second-best record behind the Saskatchewan Huskies, who held a near-perfect 19-1 record, but UBC captured the second seed due to its RPI, a metric based on a team’s wins and losses and strength of its schedule. UFV’s 17-3 mark is the best for the program since moving up to the upper echelon of university competition, U-Sports, in 2006.
