2016 CIS Men's Basketball Championship

Canadian university basketball championship 2016 CIS Men's Basketball Championship 166px 2015-16 Eight Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports CentreVancouver, British Columbia Carleton Ravens 12th Calgary Dinos 2015 Men's Final 8 2017 The 2016 CIS Men's Basketball Championship was held March 17–20, 2016 in Vancouver, British Columbia, to determine a national champion for the 2015–16 CIS men's basketball season.UBC named host of the 2016 CIS men’s basketball Final 8Format changes, Super Championship Weekend officially announced hosted by the University of British Columbia at the Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre. This was the second time UBC hosted, and the third time the tournament was played in B.C. In dynastic fashion, the Carleton Ravens won their sixth straight title, their 12th in 14 years, this time over the Calgary Dinos. The Ryerson Rams, ranked number one in the country going into the tournament (a first in any sport for the school), took the bronze medal over the Dalhousie Tigers in a second consecutive third-place finish. Carleton set a record with the win, earning the most national championships in men's basketball than any top division college in Canada or the United States. (Carleton and UCLA were tied with 11 wins, prior to this.)Peter Gross, sports report, March 21, 2016, CFTR 680 News, Toronto All tournament games were shown live online via the CIS website (using Stretch Internet), with the semi-final and final games on a pay-per-view basis. The semi-final and final games were on television's Sportsnet 360 and on its online service. This proved to be the last Men's Final 8 branded as a CIS championship. On October 20, 2016, Canadian Interuniversity Sport, the country's governing body for university athletics and the organizer of the Final 8, changed its name to U Sports.http://usports.ca/en/news/580919b7bcdd8/introducing-u-sports Introducing U Sports U Sports October 20, 2016 December 7, 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20161220161022/http://usports.ca/en/news/580919b7bcdd8/introducing-u-sports December 20, 2016 dead mdy-all Participating teams CIS list of participating teams Seed Team Qualified Regular season record/ Playoff record1 Ryerson Rams Ontario University Champion 17-2/3-02 Carleton Ravens Ontario University Runner-Up16-3/2-13 Ottawa Gee-Gees At-Large17-2/2-14 Calgary Dinos Canada West Champion17-3/4-05 McGill Redmen Quebec University Champion12-4/2-06 Dalhousie Tigers Atlantic University Champion 13-7/2-07 Thompson Rivers WolfPack Canada West Runner-Up16-4/4-18 UBC Thunderbirds Host (Canada West 3rd Place)16-4/3-1 Championship Bracket First Round: March 17 Semi-Finals: March 19 Final: March 20 1 Ryerson Rams 109 (OT) 8 8-8 UBC Thunderbirds 101 4 Calgary Dinos 72 5 McGill Redmen 69 3 Ottawa Gee-Gees 83 6 Dalhousie Tigers 87 2 Carleton Ravens 91 7 Thompson Rivers WolfPack 75 1 Ryerson Rams 87 4 Calgary Dinos 98 2 Carleton Ravens 76 6 Dalhousie Tigers 66 2 Carleton Ravens 101 4 Calgary Dinos 79 Bronze Medal Game: March 20 1 Ryerson Rams 85 6 Dalhousie Tigers 78 Consolation Bracket Semi-Finals: March 18 Fifth Place Game: March 19 3 Ottawa Gee-Gees 78 7 Thompson Rivers WolfPack 77 5 McGill Redmen 68 8 UBC Thunderbirds 69 3 Ottawa Gee-Gees 76 8 UBC Thunderbirds 93 References External links Tournament Web Site 2016 Basketball Championship, men Category:2015–16 in Canadian basketball Category:2016 in sports in British Columbia