SASKATOON – Beginning the season on the road in Vancouver, the 2018-19 edition of the University of Saskatchewan Huskies men's basketball team are once again in the mix for a conference championship.
 
Picked fifth overall in the Canada West Coaches Pre-season Poll the Huskies return the core of a team that made it to the quarter-finals one season ago.
 
Facing off with another contender in the form of the UBC T-Birds, the Huskies play at 9:00 p.m. on Oct. 26 and at 8:00 p.m. on Oct. 27
 
The Huskies will play their first home games of the year on Nov. 2 & 3 against the Fraser Valley Cascades on the newly refurbished Ron and Jane Graham Centre Court.
 
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2018-19 CW preseason coaches poll: 5th
2017-18 CW regular season record: 10-10, 9th
2017-18 post-season record: 1-2, lost to Calgary in CW quarter-final
Head Coach: Barry Rawlyk (9th season) 134-69 (Career CW regular season record)

Last CW championship / total CW championships: 2010 / 1
Last U SPORTS championship / total U SPORTS championships: 2010 / 1

2017-18 CW regular season ranks:

Offence: 78.2 PPG, 11th
Defence: 77.7 PPG, 6th

2017-18 CW regular season leaders:

Points per game: 24 – Lawrence Moore, G
Assists per game: 4.8 – Lawrence Moore, G
Rebounds per game: 10.4 – Joseph Barker, F
Blocks per game: 0.7 – Lawrence Moore, G

Key additions (name / position / eligibility / hometown / last team):
Alexander Dewar / G / 1 / Saskatoon, SK / Marion Graham Collegiate
Noah Nickel / G / 1 / Abbotsford, B.C. / Saint Anthony High School

Key losses (name / position / hometown / years with program):

Alex Unruh / Guard / Saskatoon, SK / 5 

Key performer:
Lawrence Moore
Guard
5th-year
Chicago, Ill.

2017-18 Canada West Second Team All-Star Lawrence Moore appears poised to lead the Huskies in what will be his final year with the program. 
The guard from Chicago, Ill., who finished second in the conference with 24 points per game last season, is an athletic slasher with the ball that can also shoot from long-range as evidenced by the 57 three-pointers he knocked down in 2017-18.