Friday, Jan. 24: Cascades (8-6, 8th in Canada West) at Mount Royal Cougars (3-11, 13th in Canada West), 7 p.m. PT
Saturday, Jan. 25: Cascades at Cougars, 5 p.m. PT
Calgary, AB
Webcast: CanadaWest.tv presented by Co-op

THE MATCH-UP

The Cascades have a comfortable perch in the Canada West playoff picture, but still have work to do to clinch. A pair of wins in Calgary this weekend would do it. The Cougars, meanwhile, are one game back of UNBC in the race for the final post-season berth.

RECENT FORM

The Cascades are riding a five-game win streak, coming off a pair of victories – 96-87 on Thursday and 107-95 on Saturday – over the Trinity Western Spartans. The Cougars' campaign, meanwhile, has been quite polarized. After winning their first three conference games (sweeping MacEwan and winning the first game of a series vs. Regina), they've lost 11 in a row. They were swept by the Lethbridge Pronghorns last weekend, surrendering 100-plus points both nights.

PLAYERS TO WATCH

Parm Bains, UFV – The Cascades' fifth-year floor general continued his torrid shooting pace last weekend, hitting nine three-pointers and averaging 24.5 points over the two games vs. TWU. The Surrey, B.C. product is fifth in the Canada West scoring race (19.5 points per game) and eighth in assists (4.1), and is on pace to break the conference record for three-pointers in a season.

Matthew Guinto, Mount Royal – The fourth-year guard is one of four Cougars averaging double-digit scoring – he posts a team-best 15.8 points per game, shooting 31.2 per cent from beyond the arc to go with 2.0 assists.

QUOTABLE

"We've been focusing a lot in practice on our defence, and letting the offence pretty much flow from there. We need to keep staying focused in practice, listening to coach and what he has to say, and doing a good job scouting teams and figuring out what our defensive match-ups are." – UFV fifth-year centre Matt Cooley, on his team's win streak and what it's going to take to extend it