The Winnipeg Wesmen picked a bad time to have one of their worst shooting nights of the past 10 years.
 
The No. 3-ranked Wesmen men's basketball team shot under 10 per cent from three and struggled to get anything going offensively Friday night, dropping a 56-49 Canada West conference decision to the Saskatchewan Huskies at the Duckworth Centre. 
 
Winnipeg's five-game win streak was snapped and it was due in large part to a frigid effort from the perimeter. The Wesmen made just 3 of 31 from three, the program's worst three-point shooting night since the Wesmen went 1-for-18 in an 80-63 win over Brandon on Jan. 24, 2015.
 
The Huskies (5-4), meanwhile, weren't much better, but they were when it counted. Fisayo Moibi made back-to-back threes in the first three minutes of the second half that pushed a modest four-point Saskatchewan lead up to 33-23, a gap that — considering the offensive plights of both teams — was not insignificant.
 
The Huskies got the lead up to 12 later in the quarter, but the Wesmen were able to chip it down to 37-33 with under two to go in the period. Chan de Ciman, however, dropped Saskatchewan's third triple of the quarter to push it back up to seven points.
 
After cutting lead back down to three in the early stages of the fourth quarter, Winnipeg again stalled out, going without a field goal for the next 2:04.
 
The loss marked the lowest scoring output for a Wesmen men's team since a 99-48 loss at Saskatchewan, Nov. 19, 2010.
 
Mikhail Mikhailov's 16 points and 13 rebounds led the Wesmen (7-2), while Alberto Gordo had 15 points. 
 
Winnipeg was only able to muster eight points from its bench and was outscored 29-8 in that category.
 
Emmanuel Bonsu had 10 points off the bench to lead the Huskies. De Ciman and Easton Thimm both chipped in with eight.