The Bison men's basketball team is proud to announce two captains for the 2017-18 Canada West conference season. Guard Justus Alleyn (pronounced: Just-ice Al-lean) and forward Joey Nitychoruk (pronounced: Nitty-chor-uk) are the captains for the Bison men's basketball team for the upcoming season.

Alleyn is a captain for a second consecutive season while Nitychoruk is captain for the first time with the Bisons.

Bison men's basketball head coach Kirby Schepp, in his ninth season at the helm, said, "We have a good mix of veterans and newcomers this season. Justus had been with the program for five seasons and been a great leader on and off the court and should have another big season. Joey is in his fifth season and bring leadership with his time with the Bisons and Lakehead as he has been to nationals three times so far in his career."

Alleyn, 22, enters his fifth and final year with the Bisons after an award-winning year in 2016-17. Last season, Alleyn was a 2016-17 Canada West Men's Basketball Second Team All-Star at the guard position. He had his best season statistically as he was tied for ninth in conference scoring at 17.4 points per game. The Montreal native also was in tenth spot in conference 3-point percentage at 42.5 and tied for 16th in Canada West in minutes played per game at 30.6 while starting and playing in 19 of 20 conference games. He was also fourth on team with 3.6 rebounds per game, third at 2.1 assists per game and third with 1.3 steals per game. The 6'2", 200 lbs. guard was co-captain of Manitoba for the first time with the Bisons and was a big part of the team making the nationals for the first time since 1985-86.

Nitychoruk, 24, starts his fifth season (third with the Bisons) in 2017-18. In his fourth season, the Winnipeg native was sixth in team scoring at 7.1 point per game while playing in 18 of 20 conference regular season games. In addition, the 6'5", 215 lbs. forward was seventh in team rebounding with 2.7 per game while averaging 12.5 minutes per game in 2016-17. He also played in 2 U SPORTS national championship with Lakehead University (2013, '14).


Bison Notes: The Bisons (2-0) home opener weekend series against the Regina Cougars (0-0) occurs on November 3-4 weekend. Tip off on Friday is at 8 p.m. CT and on Saturday at 7 p.m. CT at Investors Group Athletic Centre.