X-Men basketball to face Acadia in AUS quarter-finals Friday
The fifth place StFX X-Men will play the fourth place Acadia Axemen Friday night at 6:30 pm in the first quarter-final game at the Subway AUS Championship in Halifax.
The 2018 Subway AUS Men's Basketball Championship will be hosted by the AUS conference office at Scotiabank Centre in Halifax, N.S., March 2-4, 2018.
The championship schedule is as follows: (seeding in brackets)
Friday, March 2
QF #1: StFX (5th) vs. Acadia (4th), 6:30 p.m.
QF #2: Memorial (6th) vs. Saint Mary's (3rd), 8:30 p.m.
Saturday, March 3
SF #1: Winner QF #1 vs. Dalhousie (1st), 6:30 p.m.
SF #2: Winner QF #2 vs. UNB (2nd), 8:30 p.m.
Sunday, March 4
Championship Game: Winner SF #1 vs. Winner SF #2, 4:30 p.m.
Final AUS standings: http://atlanticuniversitysport.com/sports/mbkb/2017-18/standings.
All games of championship will be broadcast live on Fibe TV (on TV1—channels 1 and 401) and available via webcast at www.AUStv.ca.
For more information on the 2018 Subway AUS Basketball Championships, visit the event website at: www.AUSHoops.ca. Single tickets will become available through the Ticket Atlantic box office Monday at 11 a.m.
The AUS champion will advance to the 2018 U SPORTS Men's Basketball Final 8 championship, being hosted by Acadia March 8-11 at Scotiabank Centre in Halifax, N.S. As hosts, the Acadia Axemen receive an automatic berth in the national championship. Should the Axemen claim the conference title, the second Atlantic conference berth at nationals will be awarded to the AUS runner up.
For more information about the U Sports championship, please visit http://en.usports.ca/championships/mbkb/index.
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