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Morgan, Solomon new prep recruits as ‘Birds undergo complete roster overhaul...
VANCOUVER — Canadian Interuniversity Sport’s five seasons of player eligibility has always offered the ability to maintain a high level of continuity within a team’s roster of players, and Kevin Hanson...
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Basketball ‘Birds hit floor, new group preps for NCAA Div. 1 Eastern...
VANCOUVER — The UBC Thunderbirds men’s basketball team began official practices Monday in advance of its Sept. 8 exhibition home opener against NCAA Div. 1 Eastern Washington. “I’ve asked the...
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New-look basketball ‘Birds drop exhibition opener to Eastern Wash but show...
VANCOUVER — If it’s overstating the facts to call Saturday night’s game between the UBC Thunderbirds and the Eastern Washington Eagles at War Memorial Gymnasium an historic night from a UBC...
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Wagner, Kamen part of new identity, No. 4-ranked UBC cruises past visiting...
VANCOUVER — Nine games into the Canada West men’s basketball season with one more game to go until the holiday break, and the UBC Thunderbirds are looking like a team that is putting all the right...
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Parkin, Wagner lead UBC Thunderbirds to Friday hoops sweep over Mount Royal
VANCOUVER — Adrienne Parkin is in her first year as a prime time player for the UBC Thunderbirds women’s basketball team. On Friday, seizing the moment, UBC’s 6-foot second-year forward answered a most...
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Saturday M/W hoops round-up: Wagner’s inside game gives CIS No. 2 ‘Birds...
VANCOUVER — The European influence in Canadian Interuniversity Sport men’s basketball has become so prevalent in recent years that the true centre has become something of an endangered species....
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Uni notes 3.01.13: Great day for UBC hoops, volleyball; tough one for TWU, UFV
VANCOUVER — With under three minutes remaining on the game clock at War Memorial Gymnasium on Friday, a Fraser Valley Cascades basketball team which had seemingly been thrown every possible piece of...
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Luka The Bazooka fully loaded and ready to make big-time impact with UBC’s...
VANCOUVER — The Bazooka is going to War. Kitsilano Blue Demons star big man Luka ‘The Bazooka’ Zaharijevic, the big-boned 6-foot-8, 270-pound forward, has abandoned his thoughts of playing NCAA...
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Bandaged but unbowed, hoop ‘Birds won’t use wounded wings as crutch as TWU...
VANCOUVER — The injury situation is so ridiculous these days with the UBC Thunderbirds men’s basketball team that head coach Kevin Hanson can only laugh at its incredulity. Except Hansen won’t laugh,...
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Basketball ‘Birds get out the brooms, men and women sweep past visiting Wesmen
VANCOUVER — It was a sweep for the UBC Thunderbirds men’s and women’s basketball teams on Friday at War Gym against Winnipeg. The Birds are back in action on Saturday (5, 7 p.m.) vs. Manitoba. MEN UBC...
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Crossroads weekend comes for hoop ‘Birds, sub-.500 mark rare territory for...
VANCOUVER — It’s been so long since the UBC Thunderbirds men’s basketball team has been in the kind of position it finds itself in this weekend. So long, in fact, that even its longtime head coach, now...
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01.18.14: The Province’s Pacific Division and GNAC men’s and women’s...
Here’s Saturday’s men’s and women’s university basketball report. MEN’S BASKETBALL VANCOUVER — The Victoria Vikes and the Fraser Valley Cascades are doing their best to gain separation and make the...
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