Mason Bourcier鈥檚 triple-double paced 黑马磁力鈥檚 Trinity Western University Spartans en route to 97-87 victory against the University of the Fraser Valley Cascades on Friday, Jan. 21, TWU鈥檚 third consecutive win.
Bourcier posted 15 points, 12 rebounds and 13 assists to record the first official triple-double in TWU program history and the 18th triple double in Canada West conference history.
The 6鈥�4鈥� fourth-year guard also tied TWU鈥檚 single-game assist record.
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This duo keeps connecting as the Spartans lead 51-39 at the half!
Stats:
Mason Bourcier - 9 PTS, 8 AST, 6 REB
Tre Fillmore - 12 PTS
Sam Dyck - 11 PTS, 4 REB x
Bourcier credited his fellow Spartans for making it possible.
鈥淭he way our team plays allows me to have a lot of freedom on both offence and defence,鈥� Bourcier commented.
鈥淪ince we鈥檙e a smaller team, I get a lot of opportunities to get rebounds, and push the pace for us to have more possessions. The way our offence runs, and the way I play to my strengths, gives me a lot of opportunity to get assists and rebounds.鈥�
TWU head coach Trevor Pridie said the team has 鈥渉ad some monster players in our last four games.鈥�
鈥淨 [Ja鈥橯ualyn Gilbreath] is scoring really well, Mason is playing out of his mind, we have different guys stepping up too. Sam [Dyck] scored 15 off the bench tonight, running the floor on some massive plays, Andrew [Goertzen] was awesome, so it鈥檚 good to see that we鈥檙e playing team basketball. We had 26 assists tonight, so it鈥檚 not a one-man show.鈥�
UFV head coach Joe Enevoldson said 鈥測ou鈥檙e not going to stop a guy like Mason, but you鈥檙e going to try to slow him down as much as possible. We鈥檝e got to keep him out of the paint, and that鈥檚 something I don鈥檛 think we did a good job of.鈥�
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Triple-doubles are rare.
In the NBA, out of 72,798 games played, there have been only 1,242 triple-doubles, just 1.7 percent, where a player scored at least ten points in three of five categories in one game (points, rebounds, assists, steals and blocked shots).
Only 9.1 per cent of all NBA players have recorded a single triple-double, barely half notching more than one, and only 29 have more than 10.
Bourcier鈥檚 teammate Gilbreath achieved the same feat in the 2019-20 season against UBC, on Jan. 9, 2020, but it wasn鈥檛 counted after the university issued a statement revealing Gilbreath was not eligible to play, under a rule that states when a 鈥渟tudent-athlete is not a Canadian citizen or does not have permanent resident status in Canada,鈥� they are not allowed to play for 鈥�365 days from the date that the athlete last participated in the sport.鈥�
It was described as an 鈥渁dministrative error.鈥�
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