The University of Regina's men's basketball team continued a difficult non-conference schedule at the Calgary Cup over the weekend, losing to host schools Mount Royal and Calgary by scores of 85-73 and 89-72 on Thursday and Friday before suffering a 70-67 loss to Windsor at the buzzer on Saturday.
 
The Cougars (0-6) will travel to Brandon next Friday to continue non-conference play with a game against the Bobcats.
 
Thursday – Mount Royal 85, Cougars 73
The Cougars trailed Mount Royal by a 28-12 margin after the first quarter, but came roaring back to make it a three-point game at halftime as MRU went into the break with a 42-39 lead. It was a six-point Mount Royal lead after three quarters, but MRU was able to outscore the Cougars by a 23-17 margin in the fourth for an eventual 12-point margin of victory.
 
Four Cougars hit double figures in scoring, including Alex Igual and Stephen Shields with 11 points and Brandon Tull and Brian Ofori with 10. Igual added a team-high 10 rebounds for a double-double while also leading all players with five steals.
 
Brett Layton led Mount Royal with 20 points.
 
Friday – Calgary 89, Cougars 72
The Cougars never recovered from nine consecutive Calgary points in the third quarter, which made what had been a five-point contest into a 14-point lead for the Dinos. Calgary led by double digits the rest of the way, and put away any hopes of a late Cougar comeback with a quick 8-0 run midway through the fourth.
 
Tull led the Cougars with 12 points, while both Johneil Johnson and Travis Sylvestre came off the bench to score 10. Johnson and Brian Ofori tied for the team lead with eight rebounds apiece.
 
Lars Schlueter had a game-high 21 points for the Dinos, almost all of which came on his 6-of-11 shooting from three-point range.
 
Saturday – Windsor 70, Cougars 67
Just when it looked like the game was headed to overtime, Micqueel Martin's buzzer-beating banked three-pointer at the end of regulation gave Windsor a 70-67 win over the Cougars at Mount Royal's Kenyon Court.
 
Samuel Hillis led the Cougars with 17 points and also pulled down a team-leading nine rebounds, while Sylvestre scored 16 for the U of R and Ofori had 15 points and eight boards. The team was playing without Tull, who was injured in Friday's game.
 
Martin led Windsor with 22 points.