University of Victoria Vikes shooting-guard Diego Maffia has gone from lighting up CARSA Gym to electrifying the country in being named the winner of the Mike Moser Award as U Sports men’s basketball most valuable player for 2023-24.
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“It feels amazing to be considered in the same category as all those past MVPs,” said Maffia, by phone from Quebec City, where the top-seeded Vikes will play their U Sports national championship quarter-final game today at 3 p.m. PT against the host and eighth-seed Laval Rouge et Or.
“People were not sure about him when he was younger because of his size and there were a lot of doubters that he could put up the kinds of numbers at the next level that he did in high school at Oak Bay. But he has done it at the university level to prove them all wrong.”
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