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SPORTS
Cougars looking to promised land
by Chris Jaster
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Eyes on Sports
Go Bettman go!
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A dream we all share
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Cougars control own destiny
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by Cassie Hawrysh
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Trouble in paradise
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Aught four: The year in film
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Artistic License
Humanities darkest hour
by Emily Elias
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Spliced Politics in film: not rubbish
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2004: Year of the biopic
by Ryan Good
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COMMENTARY
Racism rears its ugly head
Editorial
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Bad moon rising
Commentary
by Justin Ludwig
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Confessions of a freshman
I pierced my face
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At the Gates
Food, faith and friends
by Lee Harding
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Cougars looking to promised land
by Chris Jaster
the Carillon
Team drove Bisons out of Regina
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They came. They saw. They couldn’t conquer the Cougars.
The visiting University of Manitoba Bisons fell to 3-9 this season in Regina as the Cougars got back to their winning ways with 70-58 and 85-74 wins. The team’s record has improved to 7-5 and almost assures the team second place in the Great Plains Division.
“We needed to get these two wins,” said Cougars forward Tai Tuisamoa. “We just wanted to lock down second place in order for us to have home court advantage in the playoffs.”
“If we had lost one game here, I think we really would hurt ourselves to not make it mathematically impossible but practically impossible, catch Brandon,” said Cougars head coach James Hillis. “We knew if we beat Manitoba twice then it’s the same way, not mathematically impossible, but with eight games left we’re essentially five games up on them.”
The largest factor in the Cougars’ victories was the unstoppable force on Tai Tuisamoa. Tuisamoa led all Cougars and Bisons players this weekend with 27 points on Friday night and he had a double double on Saturday with 21 points and 12 rebounds.
“Tai was just being himself,” said Bryden Wright of his teammate. “He’s athletic and can take almost any guy off of the dribble.
“They were putting Renold Marcelline on him which was pretty much free reign for Tai to take it to the hole. When he can do that he can dish the ball when they’re double-teaming him and he can hit some shots.”
“They were trying to guard man-to-man and he’s a tough check for them,” said Hillis. “What made the difference for Tai was that he was hitting that mid-range shot so people couldn’t lay off him and that’s the kind of performance need from him from time to time.”
The biggest area of concern from the weekend, however, was the Cougars’ inconsistency from the free throw line. The team hit only half of its free throws Friday night and made 63.3 per cent of its shots from the line on Saturday.
“That’s an area of concern that has to get better, there’s no sugar coating that,” said Hillis bluntly. “If that’s a six-point game and we miss all those free throws, we’re in trouble.”
“We’ve actually been shooting the ball better this year than we have in the last couple of years, so it kind of surprises me this weekend was so bad,” said Wright, a third-year veteran. “We just have to shoot more free throws in game-like situations. We have to be tired when we shoot the ball in practice.”
Up next for the Cougars is a battle with the Great Plains Division leader Brandon University Bobcats, who sport a 9-3 record. That match-up could determine who wins the division, especially with the season series between the two teams tied at a game apiece.
“We expect a battle from the tip-off to the end of the buzzer,” said Tuisamoa of the upcoming weekend. “Brandon’s on top of their game right now, but we just have to go in there and execute and work together and have some fun. Hopefully we’ll get the result out of it.”
What concerns Hillis even more is that the games are in Brandon. “Brandon in Brandon is like the toughest place to play in Canada if not the entire world, so we have to be good there. If we aren’t good there now then we’ll have to go back there in the playoffs, so we have to play well there this weekend.”
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