The Winnipeg Wesmen offence broke out in a big way Saturday and got the team back to the .500 mark heading into the holidays.

The Wesmen men's basketball team set its season-high for points, matched a season-high with eight three-pointers, shot a season-best from the free-throw line, and got 24 points from Don Dayrit to drop the Brandon Bobcats 94-73 in a Canada West conference game at the Duckworth Centre. 

The win pushed the Wesmen to 4-4 on the season and a game back of three other teams for top spot in the East Division. Brandon fell to 1-7.

Dayrit shot 9-for-18 from the field and was a season-best 5-for-7 from three, including a four-point play on the last shot of the first quarter that put Winnipeg up to stay at 20-17. 

Dayrit started the game by missing four of his first five shots before the four-point play swung momentum Winnipeg's way. He would score 12 of his game-high total in the second quarter when the Wesmen made their biggest moves. 

A 15-1 run over the final 2:05 of the first quarter and first 55 seconds of the second quarter gave the Wesmen a 25-17 advantage, and a few minutes later they would string together 17 straight points, holding BU without a bucket for five minutes, 24 seconds and pushing their lead to 47-23. 

The Wesmen shot a middling 8-for-25 from three, but hit eight of their next 14 after starting the game 0-for-4.

Spas Nikolov recorded his third double-double of the season with 17 points and 11 rebounds, his fifth straight game in double-digit scoring. Emmanuel Thomas had career-highs with 15 points and four blocks, as well as five rebounds, Eric Racine added 13 points, three assists and three steals, and Malachi Alexander added 11 points and nine rebounds. 

Brandon was led by Anthony Tsegakele's 17 points and eight rebounds, which matched his lowest output of 2021. Dominique Dennis added 13 points and Jahmaal Gardner 11 for the Bobcats, who were held to 35.8 per cent shooting, their second-lowest efficiency of the season.