The Carleton University Ravens are continuing their dominance in Canadian university men’s basketball. On Sunday at Calgary’s Jack Simpson Gymnasium in southern Alberta, the Ravens defeated the Bishop’s University Gaiters 78-75 in the final game of the 2026 USports Men’s Final Eight Basketball Championship.
The Ravens have now won 18 national men’s university basketball championships, all in the the last 23 years. Carleton won five straight years from 2003 to 2007, in 2009, seven straight years from 2011 to 2017, and back-to-back years two more times (2019 and 2020, and again in 2022 and 2023). The only times the Ravens did not win the national championship since 2003 came in 2008 (won by Brock), in 2010 (won by Saskatchewan), in 2018 (won by Calgary) in 2024 (won by Laval) and in 2025 (won by Victoria).
In the final game on Sunday, the Ravens had a spectacular performance from guard Aubrey Dorey-Havens of Vancouver, British Columbia. Dorey-Havens had 35 points. He made 12 of 24 field goals, nine of 16 three-point shots, and two of three free throws. Dorey-Havens had six rebounds, five assists and two steals. It was no surprise that Dorey-Havens was named the tournament’s most valuable player.
Despite the Ravens’s great success over the last two decades, it was interesting that the Ravens were not seeded higher than number six. In the quarterfinals, Carleton defeated third seed Laval 85-69, and in the semifinals, Carleton defeated second seed Toronto Metropolitan University 58-52.
