Box Score Sage Usher had a career night to push the University of Toronto Varsity Blues men's basketball team to a 90-80 victory over the Queen's Gaels on Friday night (Feb. 9) in Kingston, Ont.

Down 43-31 at the beginning of the third quarter, Usher caught fire. The fourth-year guard drained four three-pointers en route to 22 points in the second half to complete the season sweep of the Gaels. The geography major ended up going 10-for-17 on the night for a career-high 27 points, while adding seven rebounds and three assists in the win.

Evan Shadkami, who dropped 18 points in Toronto's last meeting with Queen's, followed it up with 17 points off the bench. Reilly Reid and Christopher Barrett each chipped in with 13 of their own.

Toronto outscored the Gaels by 21 points in the second half to improve their record to 10-10. They're currently two games up on Nipissing for the final playoff spot in the OUA East division. On the other hand, Queen's holds the fourth spot in the same division with an 11-9 record on the season.

U of T kept pace with the Gaels from the opening tip. Seven different Blues recorded a basket for Toronto to keep the score within one (19-18) after the first quarter.

Queen's hopped out to a 14-4 run early in the second quarter and maintained that momentum into halftime, leading by 12.

At the start of the third quarter it became the Usher show. He dropped 12 points in the frame, which was only three shy of the amount Queen's tallied in the entire frame. Toronto only trailed 58-54 heading into the final quarter.

The team continued to shoot lights out in the last 10 minutes. Usher, Ried and Shadkami each scored at least 10 points in the quarter to finish the comeback.

The Blues are back on the road tomorrow night (Feb. 10), this time at York against the Lions. Toronto took down their inner city rival 73-56 in their last encounter. Tipoff is set for 8 p.m., at Tait McKenzie Centre. 
 
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