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Posted: Mar 06, 2020

Day 2: SAIT Trojans vs Keyano College Huskies kick off Game 7 of the 2020 ACAC Men’s Basketball Championships.

Day 2: SAIT Trojans vs Keyano College Huskies kick off Game 7 of the 2020 ACAC Men’s Basketball Championships.
Box Score
Game Leaders
SAIT
Pts: Charlie Conner - 30
Reb: Taliik Ross - 16
Ast: Charlie Conner - 6
KC
Pts: Jacob Simmons - 25
Reb: Stefan Jovcic - 10
Ast: Dejon Davis - 6
Team Stats
Full stats

The SAIT Trojans and the Keyano Huskies kick off Game 7 of the 2020 ACAC Men's Basketball Championships.

Off the jump ball, the Trojans take possession of the ball and bring numbers to the scorebaord between proactive defense, shooting 3's. The Huskies change strategies in their defensive zone and begin to push back gaining points left right and center tie up the game at the end of the first quarter, 20-20.

The game is intense and both teams are playing strong and competitively. Entering into the second quarter, the teams are neck-in-neck with changing the lead on the scoreboard. At halftime, the Trojans take ownership of the ball and gain leverage leading 44-36 against the Huskies.

Halfway through the third quarter the fans are pumped feeding off the energy of both the Huskies and Trojans. Trojans hold their lead 53-42 but the Huskies are stepping up and carrying their momentum into the offensive zone. Trojans shooting two three pointers in less than 30s, cause the Huskies to call a timeout to re-strategize their system. But the Trojans have been playing exceptionally well on both their defensive and offensive zones. At the end of the third, Trojans hold their lead 69-50. 

Both teams continued to push stronger and bring established competition to the court, but the Trojans pulled through and took the final win for tonight's game 85-71. 

The 2020 ACAC Men's Basketball Championship Player of the Game presented by Graham and Carol Wideman was awarded to Trojan's player, #8 Gemie Muya and Huskies player, #5 Jacob Simmons.