basketball

Vikes women send TRU packing

It took all three games and some late-game heroics, but the Vikes women’s basketball team is off to the CW Final Four for the first time in seven years. The…

Basic bracketology for beginners

The days grow appreciably longer, courses enter their final flurry, and the Madness sets in: March Madness. I’m talking about the NCAA Division I Basketball Championship, the greatest single elimination…

Heating up at the right time

Women’s basketball team sweep Dinos, win eighth-straight, head to Kamloops for quarterfinals.

MRT: Episode 3 – Tanking in Sports

  It’s the third edition of the Martlet Round Table and we are here to talk about tanks, only not of the mechanical variety. We are joined  by Martlet contributors…

Vikes look towards playoffs with four memorable wins

  As one chapter nears an end, the Vikes basketball made sure some of the final memories of games played McKinnon Gymnasium were unequivocally positive. The Vikes men’s and women’s…

MRT: Episode 1 – Canadian Basketball

Welcome to the first edition of the Martlet Sports Roundtable. Each week, this will be a space to chat about broad issues in Canadian sport and we will feature guests…

McKinnon’s swan song

Celebration, pair of games mark McKinnon Gym's waning weeks

Vikes rebound for weekend split

It was a frantic and nervous weekend for Vikes basketball fans who saw their UVic men’s team go 1-1 with the Winnipeg Wesmen in two hotly-contested games. After losing the…

New year, new challenges for Vikes basketball

The Vikes entered the December break with a pair of home wins over the University of Alberta Golden Bears, firmly planting them in third place in Canada West’s Pioneer Division.…