With apologies to Dinah Washington, but what a difference a day makes, just 24 little hours.
The University of Victoria Vikes, who suffered one of the biggest upset losses in team history on a buzzer-beating lay-up by UBC-Okanagan the night before, responded with a resounding 81-52 sa国际传媒 West men鈥檚 basketball victory over UBC-O on Saturday night on Ken and Kathy Shields court in the CARSA Gymnasium.
The UBC-O program was 2-18 last season and has never made the playoffs since entering sa国际传媒 West in 2011-12, although it proved plenty plucky enough over the conference season-opening weekend series against UVic.
A 35-8 third-quarter advantage Saturday proved decisive for the Vikes.
鈥淲e put pressure on ourselves, because we felt we needed a result after last night, and maybe that鈥檚 why we were still spinning our wheels in the first half tonight. It was good to finally open it up in the third quarter,鈥� said Vikes head coach Craig Beaucamp.
鈥淭hat was the team I remember from the pre-season.鈥�
Veteran forward Justin Kinnear led a well-balanced UVic attack with 17 points while guard Mason Loewen added 11 points on a night when 10 UVic players scored.
The women鈥檚 Vikes team rode fourth-year shooting-guard Amira Giannattasio鈥檚 23-point touch to a 78-64 victory Saturday at CARSA to complete a two-game sweep of UBC-O to open sa国际传媒 West play.
Third-year forward Marissa Dheensaw had 15 points and seven first-half steals for UVic for turn the tide.
鈥淲e got a great scoring game from Amira and a good all-round game from Marissa,鈥� said UVic head coach Dani Sinclair.
But the UVic bench boss still saw much room for improvement.
鈥淲e gave UBC-O 28 foul shots and that is way too much,鈥� Sinclair said.
The Vikes teams are at Brandon next weekend to face their Bobcats counterparts in sa国际传媒 West.
ON THE PITCH: The UVic Vikes open the sa国际传媒 West women鈥檚 soccer playoffs at Centennial Stadium Sunday at 2 p.m. against the University of Calgary Dinos.
