CCAA 50th Anniversary: Men's Basketball
In the early 1970s, a Men’s Basketball National Championship was identified as the number one priority for the various regional conferences. With that direction the first CCAA Championship is hosted at the end of the 1974-75 season by Mount Royal College in Calgary, AB.
The four competing conference champions were Vancouver City College of the 4-West, George Brown College of the OCAA, Dawson College of the FASCQ, and Nova Scotia Agricultural College of the NSCC.
George Brown won the first CCAA Championship title but unlike other sports, no one Conference or team would dominate the podium. Dawson, Fanshawe, SAIT and Sheridan each won multiple titles and medals as the sport entered the 90s but Humber’s threepeat from 1991-93, and a fourth championship in 1995, was the first instance of sustained success.
Langara won back-to-back in 1998 & ‘99 while Montmorency, UFV, NAIT and VIU would go on to be multi time champs, but the sport maintained relative parity as it progressed through the new millennium.
CCAA 50th Anniversary – Men's Basketball Programs
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1 |
Humber College |
26 |
Mohawk College |
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2 |
Dawson College |
27 |
John Abbott College |
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3 |
Langara College (VCC) |
28 |
Keyano College |
|
4 |
Sheridan College |
29 |
Red Deer Polytechnic |
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5 |
Southern Alberta Institute of Technology |
30 |
Centennial College |
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6 |
Vancouver Island University (Malaspina) |
31 |
Durham College |
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7 |
Collège Montmorency |
32 |
Collège de Maisonneuve |
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8 |
Douglas College |
33 |
St. Clair College |
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9 |
Vanier College |
34 |
Champlain College Lennoxville |
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10 |
Northern Alberta Institute of Technology |
35 |
Nova Scotia Teachers College |
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11 |
University of the Fraser Valley |
36 |
Trinity Western University |
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12 |
Lethbridge College |
37 |
Capilano University |
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13 |
Mount Royal University |
38 |
Camosun College |
|
14 |
MacEwan University |
39 |
College of New Caledonia |
|
15 |
Thompson Rivers University (Cariboo) |
40 |
Saskatchewan Polytechnic |
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16 |
Briercrest College and Seminary |
41 |
Cape Breton University |
|
17 |
George Brown College |
42 |
University of King's College |
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18 |
Holland College |
43 |
Canadian Bible College |
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19 |
Fanshawe College |
44 |
Assiniboine College |
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20 |
Seneca Polytechnic |
45 |
Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf |
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21 |
Mount Saint Vincent University |
46 |
Dalhousie Agricultural Campus (NSAC) |
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22 |
University of Northern British Columbia |
47 |
University of British Columbia - Okanagan |
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23 |
Algonquin College |
48 |
Mount Allison University |
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24 |
Champlain College Saint-Lambert |
49 |
*Thirteen Teams Tied |
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25 |
St. Thomas University |
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*British Columbia Institute of Technology / Quest University / Concordia University of Edmonton / Lakeland College / Medicine Hat College / Northwestern Polytechnic (GPRC)
St. Mary's University / Red River College Polytechnic / Collège Ahuntsic / Cégep Édouard-Montpetit / Cégep de Sainte-Foy / Cégep de Thetford / Crandall University (Atlantic Baptist)
Fun Fact: After considerable effort the 1994 CCAA Men’s Basketball National Championship Game is presented live on TSN. Malaspina (VIU) defeated Douglas at the Lethbridge Community College Sports Centre for what would be the first and only live, nationally televised broadcast of a CCAA National Championship.
