CIS200910 AUS 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 Standings ScheduleResults Composite Sched Playoffs Stat Leaders Team Stats Ind Stats News 200910 AUS previewHALIFAX NS With all eight Atlantic University Sport mens hockey teams set to begin the regular season Friday night David Kilfoil the voice of the UNB Varsity Reds on CHSRFM was kind enough to provide a breakdown of the league with capsule previews of each team While the casual observer might wonder what all this noise from the Maritimers is about regarding their selfproclaimed title of most competitive conference what with UNB and SMU getting all of the attention lately but it is worth noting that in last year the AUS had six of the top 13 teams as per RPI and in the last 10 years six of the eight AUS teams have won the AUS championship The last two times UNB won the University Cup they were there thanks to the rotating wildcard ticket While one might be willing to concede UNB first place SMU is not a lock again for second and the other first round playoff bye with Acadia showing a lot of improvement The middle of the pack is always difficult to sort out and predict and while it may look easy to put STU and Dal out of the playoffs again everything is easy on paper Acadia AxemenLast season 15121 (8th out of 33 nationwide in RPI) Regular season finish 5th Power play 218% 4th penalty killing 839% 1st goals for 96 5th goals against 68 2nd 0809 recap After a strong first half the Axemen were 780 after Christmas and slid into 5th place Acadia swept StFX in two games in the ...