CALGARY – Just one week after capping off the regular season against each other in Calgary, the Calgary Dinos and the No. 1 Saskatchewan Huskies will give it another go in the postseason, this time in Saskatoon.

Saskatchewan won both games in Calgary this past weekend, dispatching the Dinos by scores of 83-55 and 83-72, stretching their season win streak to an eye-popping 20 games. The Huskies (22-2) last lost on Oct. 30 to the Victoria Vikes.

Calgary hung with the Huskies on Saturday, bouncing back nicely from Friday's blow-out loss, getting key contributions from second-year guard Tamara Jarrett, and Ashley Hill who played her last game at the Jack Simpson Gym in Calgary.

The Saturday result gives Calgary confidence that despite being in the seemingly insurmountable position of being the eighth-place team facing off against first place Saskatoon, they have a shot at pulling off the upset.

Eight teams have made the Canada West postseason, and the winners of the four quarterfinal series will move on to the Canada West Final Four. While you may be following along so far, here comes the confusing part.

The winner of the Final Four, and the subsequent Canada West champions, gets an automatic berth to the CIS Final 8 in Windsor, Ont. The other three teams move on to one of three regional tournaments which make their debuts this year, each of which decides one more team at the Final 8.

The Canada West silver medalists will host the West Regional, while the Bronze medalists will go to Ontario for another regional and the fourth place team will head to the East Regional.

On top of all that, the highest-ranked Canada West team to be left out of the Final Four tournament will be eligible to go to the Ontario Regional.

Thus, the Saskatchewan Huskies, courtesy of their first-ranked position in the Canada West regular season standings, have at least a spot in the regional to look forward to, should they lose to Calgary this weekend.

But back to the task at hand, the quarterfinal match-up this weekend between Calgary and Saskatchewan. Calgary (10-14) locked themselves into the eighth spot in Canada West with a roster sporting only two players (Megan Lang and Ashley Hill) in their fourth year or more, and after battling through a 4-10 start.

With a commitment to a team-oriented, up-tempo style, Calgary was fifth in the conference in total scoring and the second best rebounding team without a single player in the top 20 individually. Hill led the team in scoring in the regular season, sitting fourth in the conference with 16 per game, while Lang was excellent doing the dirty work, averaging a tenth-best 2.1 steals per game, and an eleventh-best 2.9 assists per game.

Calgary had all sorts of trouble with Saskatchewan's Katie Miyazaki this past weekend, and the fourth year guard was good all year, averaging 13 points per game to go with nearly seven rebounds. Fifth year player Kim Tulloch leads the entire conference in scoring with 16.9, while fellow senior Jill Humbert ranks sixth with 15.4 and led the conference in assists with 4.7 per game.

The Huskies have not lost to Calgary at home since Feb. 2, 2008 when the Dinos won 87-85, pushed by 24 Ashley Hill points.

The two teams will battle in the best-of-three series this weekend, with the games going on Friday, Saturday and Sunday (if necessary), with all games starting at 5:15 p.m. MT.

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