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| Boris Bakovic |
Boris Bakovic, who is playing his fifth and final year of eligibility for the University of Calgary Dinos after playing his first four years close to home for the Ryerson Rams, accomplished the feat when he contributed 32 points in a pair of key back-to-back wins — 67-66 and 79-64 — over the Alberta Golden Bears.
The record-breaking shot was a three-pointer in the 67-66 win on Jan. 27.
He ended up with 24 points in that game not to mention, according to the team’s website report, “two significant consecutive shot blocks in the final minute to preserve the tight one-point lead for the Dinos.”
He since added 21 and 22 points in back-to-back wins over the Manitoba Bisons Thursday and Friday as the record total has hit 2,242 points.
That eclipsed the mark of 2,182 set by Andrew Spagrud of the University of Saskatchewan Huskies, also over a five-year career (2003-08).
Bakovic, who took a year off before deciding to finish out his fifth and final year of Canadian university eligibility in Calgary this season, left Ryerson University as its all-time top scorer (with 2,068 points) and second, all time, in the Ontario conference.
In the last three of those years in Ontario he also finished as the top scorer in the country with 526, 600 and 576 points.
It’s a milestone he definitely won’t reach this season, however, as an injury, that was initially thought to be season-ending, kept him out of the first half of the season (he has come back to play in nine of his team’s 17 games).
He would be just as happy too reach another milestone, however: the playoffs.
Calgary’s 87-79 win over Manitoba on Friday tied the Bisons for the fourth and final playoff spot in the western conference. The Dinos have two games left and hold the tiebreaking advantage over the Bisons.
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