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Already assured of its first postseason berth since the 2010-11 season, the University of Regina's men's basketball team closes out the conference schedule this weekend with games against provincial rival Saskatchewan on Friday and Saturday at the Centre for Kinesiology, Health & Sport.
 
Both games tip off at 8 p.m.
 
The Cougars are coming off a road trip to Calgary which saw them lose twice to the Pioneer Division-leading Dinos, but they got some help on the out-of-town scoreboard on Saturday as Alberta's win over Saskatchewan clinched the U of R's trip to the postseason.
 
But while the Cougars know they're off to the playoffs, there's still plenty to play for this weekend with positions four through seven in the Pioneer Division still to be decided. Three teams, including the Cougars, enter Friday with 10-8 records while Alberta is 10-9. Lethbridge hosts Trinity Western this weekend, while Winnipeg plays at UBC and Alberta hosts Calgary on Sunday.
 
Fourth place in the Pioneer Division would give the Cougars a bye through to the conference quarterfinals, while the fifth-place, sixth-place, and seventh-place teams will try to advance from a best-of-three Canada West play-in series. Fifth will host seventh next weekend, while the sixth-place team will travel west to meet the third-place team in the Explorer Division.
 
Playoff implications aside, this weekend will also be the final home conference games for Will Tallman and Jonathan Tull, both in their last seasons with the Cougars. Tallman has compiled 526 points and 393 rebounds in 79 games played over four seasons at the U of R, while Tull has played the last two seasons with the Cougars after transferring over from Acadia. And he's been one of the most productive players in school history, as his career scoring average of 18.2 points per game trails only Chris Biegler (1985-89) and Brian Johnson (1971-73) in the University of Regina record book.
 
Saskatchewan (7-11) had been on a three-game winning streak that included an 80-52 win over Alberta last Friday, but the Golden Bears salvaged a weekend split the following night with a close 85-80 victory that knocked both the Huskies and Victoria out of playoff contention. The Huskies' leading scorer is Evan Ostertag, who comes into the weekend averaging 14.4 points per game.
 
The two teams met once this season during non-conference play, with Saskatchewan edging the Cougars by a 90-87 margin at the Graham Construction Shootout in Saskatoon.
 
NOTES: Should the Cougars finish in fifth place in the Pioneer Division and host a Canada West play-in series, it'll be held at the CKHS beginning with Game 1 on Friday, Feb. 26 ... Game 2 would be played on Saturday, Feb. 27 with Game 3 – if it's needed – to be held on Sunday, Feb. 28 ... all three games would have a 7 p.m. start time.