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University of Saskatchewan Huskies forward Michael Lieffers thought he might not be able to play in the team's semi-final game in Ottawa during the Canadian Interuniversity Sport men's basketball championship.

Game 1, Dinos versus Capers

OTTAWA -- The Dinos men's basketball team ended the Cape Breton University Capers hoop dreams Friday.

In the opening game of the quarterfinals of the Canadian Interuniversity Sport Championships at Scotiabank Place in Ottawa, the seventh-seeded Dinos won 82-74 over the second-seeded Capers. The win matched them up again against the University of British Columbia Thunderbirds in Saturday's semi-final.

The Dinos men's basketball team is back at the Canadian Interuniversity Sport Final 8 tournament and will be looking to improve on their semi-final loss from last year. The Final 8 again takes place at Scotiabank Place just outside of Ottawa, hosted by the Carleton University Ravens. The Ravens have won this tournament, and the McGee trophy, six of the last seven years.

While everyone else vacates Vancouver post-Olympics, the Dinos men's basketball team fly into the city for the end of the conference post-season. The Canada West final four between the Dinos, the University of British Columbia Thunderbirds, the University of Saskatchewan Huskies and the Simon Fraser University Clan begins Friday with semi-final games between the Clan and Dinos and the T-Birds and Huskies. All games take place at UBC.

After two hotly contested games between them this season, the Dinos men's basketball team and the University of Lethbridge Pronghorns kick off the Canada West playoffs this weekend at the Jack Simpson Gym.

The Dinos needed two Ross Bekkering free throws in overtime with 3.1 seconds left to take a 88-86 victory Jan. 9 while the Pronghorns took the last game of the regular season for both teams with a 58-56 victory after Jamie McLeod missed two of three free throws with no time on the clock.

There was no revenge for the Dinos over the University of British Columbia Thunderbirds on homecourt last weekend. The last time the men's basketball team met the T-Birds, it was in the national semi-finals at the Canadian Interuniversity Sport Final 8 tournament in Ottawa and the T-Birds ended the Dinos' season with a 79-74 victory.

The University of British Columbia Thunderbirds women's basketball team didn't have the best visit to Calgary on Saturday.

Not only did they leave the city without a victory over the Dinos in Saturday night's game, they left the city without some of their wallets, cell phones and iPods.

While they were playing, someone entered their makeshift locker room in B88 near the Jack Simpson Gymnasium and grabbed valuables, making off with $4,200 worth of goods, according to Campus Security.

The women's basketball team broke a five-game losing streak in style Saturday at the Jack Simpson Gym.

Behind 25 points, including seven three-pointers, from Ashley Hill, they upset the University of British Columbia Thunderbirds 71-66 to move to 7-8 and a tie for fifth place in the Canada West's Prairie Division with the University of Lethbridge Pronghorns. The T-Birds dropped to 10-4 with the loss.

After a couple of painful losses to the archrival University of Alberta Pandas last weekend, it doesn't get any easier for the Dinos women's basketball team. The University of Victoria Vikes (7-4) and the University of British Columbia Thunderbirds (9-3) roll into town for games Friday and Saturday, respectively, that take on an added importance because the Dinos now sit in sixth, one win out of a playoff spot.