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The Scarborough Shooting Stars (8-7) (+118) and Montréal Alliance (7-9) (-163) will both look to start a win streak in a matchup with eastern conference playoff implications tonight on TSN at 7:30 p.m. ET at the Verdun Auditorium.

The game will also be available on TSN 4/5 and RDS as well as for streaming on TSN+, CEBL+ powered by BetVictor, and on the CEBL Mobile app available on iOS and Android devices.

The Alliance, fresh off a comeback win on the road over the Vancouver Bandits on Sunday, have been off for the last two days—but saw their playoff chances improve with a Brampton Honey Badgers loss to the Saskatchewan Rattlers on Monday night.

Entering that night, Brampton was a half game behind Montréal for the final play-in spot in the east. The Honey Badgers ultimately lost a nail biter on a Justin Wright-Foreman game-winning shot in transition, giving Montréal a one game lead over Brampton for the conference’s play-in spot.

The Alliance are also only one and a half games behind Scarborough for third place in the east.

It was Treveon Graham who led the way for the Alliance in their win over Vancouver. The four-year NBA veteran scored a season-high 24 points on 47 per cent shooting. Graham is nearly averaging a double-double for the year—scoring over 14 points and snatching 9.3 rebounds per game.

Ahmed Hill scored 17 points in that contest, which was just shy of his 19.9 per game average.

But he received plenty of attention in Vancouver—including a box-and-one defence strategy by the Bandits—and let his teammates shoulder some of the offensive load. Alliance head coach Derrick Alston Sr. highlighted the guard’s passiveness after the game.

“Ahmed is really unselfish. He became a screener, and we got open shots for all