Af­ter scrap­ing past the Min­istry of Sport (MOS) Schoolaz in the first round, the Uni­ver­si­ty of T&T (UTT) used its mo­men­tum to record one of the up­sets of the tour­na­ment with a last-gasp 87-86 win over reign­ing cham­pi­ons and favourites De­tour Shak At­tack in the MACK­E­SON Su­per 10 Bas­ket­ball League, on Fri­day night. The match was played at the Jean Pierre Com­plex, Wright­son Road, with an ex­cit­ing fin­ish thanks to UTT's point-guard Jef­frey Har­ris, who scored the last six and most vi­tal points for his team. The shock re­sult means that UTT will face an­oth­er im­prov­ing team Na­tion­al Flour Mills in the semi­fi­nal stage of the tour­na­ment. UTT ac­tu­al­ly had the lead by a five point gap at 28-23 go­ing in­to the sec­ond pe­ri­od, be­fore ex­tend­ing it to 45-34 at the half. Shak At­tack ral­lied from the ex­ten­sive deficit to trail by a soli­tary point at 62-61 at the end of the third quar­ter.

Shak At­tack prize play­er of the sea­son, guard Kurt "Co­to" Chris­t­ian helped his team to a 11-3 run in the fourth quar­ter, which sub­se­quent­ly saw them lead 77-75, with the match head­ing down to the wire. Dur­ing the pe­ri­od, "Ko­to" scored 13 points for a sea­son-high 36 points, which un­for­tu­nate­ly was not enough to see the team in­to the fi­nal four. Two min­utes and 13 sec­onds left in the match, Har­ris and UTT re­gained the lead and man­aged to match Shak At­tack, point for point, in­to the fi­nal mo­ments, when the uni­ver­si­ty held on­to the one point ad­van­tage. Har­ris fin­ished with 17 points and five re­bounds to his name, while for­ward Kevin Nor­eiga led the way with 20 points and eight re­bounds for UTT. Michael Jerome helped him­self to a dou­ble-dou­ble with 15 points and 11 re­bounds and Kern George scored 13 points. For Shak At­tack, Chris­t­ian al­so had nine re­bounds and sev­en steals. He got sup­port from point-guard Ken­neth Roberts, who scored 19 points and pulled down five re­bounds and for­ward Andy Best had 14 points. While UTT, NFM and Cale­do­nia Clip­pers have done enough to seal their semi­fi­nal spots, the fi­nal spot will be de­ter­mined by the win­ner of the match-up be­tween Petro Jazz and Mal­oney Pac­ers, which will jump off af­ter the Car­ni­val fes­tiv­i­ties.