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UVic Vikes women's basketball team to host Cascades in playoff opener

The University of Victoria Vikes have their opponents set for the first round of the sa国际传媒 West basketball playoffs. The Vikes women will host, while the Vikes men will travel.

The University of Victoria Vikes have their opponents set for the first round of the sa国际传媒 West basketball playoffs. The Vikes women will host, while the Vikes men will travel.

The seventh-seed Vikes women鈥檚 team (12-8) will host the 10th-seed Fraser Valley Cascades (10-10) on Friday at 7 p.m. on Ken and Kathy Shields Court in CARSA gymnasium.

The 10th-seed UVic men鈥檚 squad (10-10) will go to southern Alberta on Friday to face the seventh-seed University of Lethbridge Pronghorns (12-8).

Both are single-game elimination.

The top four men鈥檚 and women鈥檚 teams received first-round byes into the sa国际传媒 West post-season, while the other eight playoff teams on each side participate in a single elimination play-in game.

Best-of-three quarter-finals and semifinals will then be played, with the conference playoffs culminating in one-game sa国际传媒 West championships to be played March 1 or March 2.

The undefeated defending national-champion Calgary Dinos (20-0) are the top men鈥檚 seed and the University of Saskatchewan Huskies (16-4) the top women鈥檚 seed.