Memorial men's basketball team gets playoff berth despite weekend losses

It may have been through the back door, but they’re in.
The Memorial Sea-Hawks has a berth in the Atlantic University Sport men’s basketball championship tournament, claiming the sixth and final playoff berth over the weekend.
The Sea-Hawks lost their last two regular-season games, dropping 87-75 and 79-61 decisions to the visiting Dalhousie Tigers Friday and Saturday at the Field House in St. John’s.
The results left Memorial with a 6-14 record and tied in points with the UPEI Panthers and Acadia Axemen, but the Sea-Hawks were awarded sixth place as the result of application of the tiebreaking formula.
Either UPEI or Acadia could have supplanted Memorial with a win on Saturday, but the Axemen lost 72-70 to the UNB Varsity Reds while the Panthers fell 95-80 to the St. FX X-Men.
The weekend games at the Field House served as a preview of a first-round matchup at the championship tourney in Halifax. That competition begins on Friday, when Memorial will face third seed Dalhousie in a quarter-final game. A win there would put the Sea-Hawks up against the first-place Saint Mary’s Huskies, who have a bye through the first playoff round.
The other quarter-final has St. FX taking on Cape Breton, with UNB joining Saint Mary’s in getting the bye through to the semifinals.