Lancer women favoured to three-peat as national basketball champs

The two-time reigning titlist University of Windsor Lancers are favoured to repeat as Canadian Interuniversity Sport women’s basketball champions, the league announced as it released team seedings for the Bronze Baby tournament.

The Lancers, who claimed the first Bronze Baby Trophy in program history two years ago on home court and were crowned again last season in Calgary, earned the top seed for the 2013 national championship at the University of Regina, March 15 to 17.

The Lancers will open the tournament Friday at 1 p.m. against the wild-card Ottawa Gee-Gees.

The Score will cover Sunday’s gold-medal final live at 4 p.m. Central Time. All 11 games from the tournament will be webcast live on www.CIS-SIC.tv.

Find more information, including all the seedings and a full tournament schedule, at goLancers.ca.

Watch a video celebrating the Lancers’ Ontario University Athletics championship: