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CIS200910 Canada West mens basketball preview Canada West OUA QSSF AUS Canada West OUA QSSF AUS CIS 5 Year Championship Schedule Womens Basketball Final 8 Round 1 East Regional Round 1 Central Regional Round 1 West Regional Mens Basketball Final 8 Cross Country Curling Womens Field Hockey Football Desjardins Vanier Cup Womens Ice Hockey Mens Ice Hockey University Cup Womens Rugby Womens Soccer Mens Soccer Swimming Track & Field Womens Volleyball Mens Volleyball Wrestling Basketball Cross Country Curling Field Hockey Ice Hockey Rugby Soccer Swimming Track & Field Volleyball Wrestling Basketball Curling Cross Country Football Ice Hockey Soccer Swimming Track & Field Volleyball Wrestling SSN Canada Website SSN Canada Webcast Schedule Le 5 Partant QSSF Basketball Show CIS Womens Hockey Weekly CIS Touchdown Football Show SSN Webcast Schedule Canada West OUA QSSF AUS Home Universiades FISU World University Championships StudentAthlete Info Members Info International Programs Committee About International Program Services International History Past Medalists Official BLG Website Past BLG Winners BLG Awards History History Past Winners Home Standings ScheduleResults Playoffs Stat Leaders Team Stats Ind Stats News 200910 Canada West mens basketball previewby Canada West Sports Information Offices OverviewCanada West basketball sees a big change in the league format adopting a twodivision system with the Great Plains and Central Divisions merged and a Pacific Division that remains intact The playoff format sees four Prairie teams make the postseason three Pacific schools in and a wild card team between the Prairie fifthplace finisher and Pacific fourthplace squad Team by TeamGone to the pros is Henry Bekkering leaving younger brother Ross a 200809 AllCanadian and a list of experienced studentathletes to lead the 2009 conference champion Calgary Dinos The Dinos went on to finish in a tie for third at Nationals after a narrow semifnals defeat to UBC Returning players include Tyler Fidler and Robbie Sihota who combined for 30 points and almost 12 rebounds per game last season as well as seniors Jamie McLeod and Lindsay Thouret The Trinity Western Spartans look like a team ready to make waves through the conference season and into the playoffs With CIS Player of the Year Jacob Doerksen (avg of 208 points 107 rebounds) in just his fourth year the impact could even carry over into 201011 Louis Hurd Jason Keegstra and Lance Verhoeff are just some of the experienced players surrounding Doerksen Among many new recruits are NCAA transfers forward Tyrell Mara and guard Calvin Westbrook AllCanadian guard Dany C...