Varsities day 1 match reviews
The 66th Intervarsities basketball tournament got underway at the University of Limerick, with hugely competitive games across all of the divisions.
In the Men’s Division A, NUI Galway dominated their two group games, finishing the day unbeaten as too did Griffith College Dublin, who wrapped up the day with a win over LYIT.
In the Men’s Division B, games were played out across the four pools, with some big upsets along the way, leaving it all to play for tomorrow, while the Women’s Division B is still wide open with coveted final four spots still very much up for grabs.
Griffith College, division 2 league matches took places for the women. The match was completely action packed from beginning to end. However, WIT fell behind in the last quarter which left Griffith College to a huge lead at the end. There was in total 30 baskets from Kelsey Carey and 22 from Kristine Miller. There were some great rebounds from Sindhuri Shastri.
Overall, WIT lacked defence and missed out on pivotal rebounds. They fell a good bit behind and Griffith conquered the last round.
The Griffith College male team won 2 out of 2 of their games and were absolutely ecstatic about the end result. Dave Baker said ”It was a well-deserved win as they have been training non stop all season.”
LYIT fell behind but had some great free shots and rebounds. However, their defence and game plan were not in their favour.
Credits: Ashley Callery
Results Day One – Friday, April 6th, 2018
Men’s Division A – Full results and tables here: http://bi.comortais.com/competition.aspx?oId=1002&id=1714#.WsebT9PwbVp
Pool 1
CIT 64-76 Griffith College Dublin
NUIG 77-69 LYIT
NUIG 105-63 Cork IT (Men’s)
Griffith College Dublin 69-56 LYIT
Pool 2
UU 91-34 ITT
ITC 77-73 DIT
ITC 97-63 ITT
UU 87-55 DIT
Women’s Div A – Full results and tables here: http://bi.comortais.com/competition.aspx?oId=1002&id=1715#.WsebY9PwbVp
Pool 1
UCC 57-34 CIT
NUIG 30-71 DCU
DCU 78-41 CIT
UCC 42-46 NUIG
Pool 2
UU 73-48 LYIT
ITC 43-57 DIT
ITC 70-65 LYIT
UU 50-22 DIT
Men’s Division B – Full results and tables here: http://bi.comortais.com/competition.aspx?oId=1002&id=1717#.WsebdtPwbVp
Pool 1
DBS 72-50 ITB
DKIT 55-57 ITB
Pool 2
UL 73-37 GMIT
UCC 64-52 GMIT
Pool 3
LIT 72-46 AIT
TCD 49-40 AIT (Men’s)
Pool 4
UCD 49-63 DCU
UCD 53-47 MU
Women’s Div B – Full results and tables here: http://bi.comortais.com/competition.aspx?oId=1002&id=1716#.WsebgdPwbVp
Pool 1
LIT 32-84 TCD
MU 20-60 UCD
GCD 74-46 WIT (Women’s)
MU 41-69 TCD
LIT 26-51 UCD
Pool 2
UL 52-57 WIT
