| POOL A | NB | MAN | ALTA | ONT | NFLD | NWT | Record | ||
| New Brunswick | —– | 54-49 | 61-45 | 68-49 | 74-25 | 83-17 | (5-0) | ||
| Manitoba | 49-54 | —– | 60-44 | 62-50 | 59-43 | 108-25 | (4-1) | ||
| Alberta | 45-61 | 44-60 | —– | 68-51 | 47-43 | 62-19 | (3-2) | ||
| Ontario | 49-68 | 50-62 | 51-68 | —– | 71-46 | 64-19 | (2-3) | ||
| Newfoundland | 25-74 | 43-59 | 43-47 | 46-71 | —– | 58-38 | (1-4) | ||
| N.W.T. | 17-83 | 25-108 | 19-62 | 19-64 | 38-58 | —– | (0-5) | ||
| POOL B | QUE | BC | NS | SASK | PEI | YUK | Record | ||
| Quebec | —– | 64-57 | 103-70 | 74-48 | 94-50 | 93-14 | (5-0) | ||
| British Columbia | 57-64 | —– | 78-34 | 74-42 | 92-21 | 98-14 | (4-1) | ||
| Nova Scotia | 70-103 | 34-78 | —– | 51-49 | 80-55 | 96-18 | (3-2) | ||
| Saskatchewan | 48-74 | 42-74 | 49-51 | —– | 97-34 | 76-11 | (2-3) | ||
| P.E.I. | 50-94 | 21-92 | 55-80 | 34-97 | —– | 59-26 | (1-4) | ||
| Yukon | 93-14 | 98-14 | 18-96 | 11-76 | 26-59 | —– | (0-5) | ||
| Semi | Quebec 71 Manitoba 55 | |
| Semi | British Columbia 46 New Brunswick 44 | |
| 11th | Northwest Territories 42 Yukon 31 | |
| 9th | P.E.I. 59 Newfoundland 41 | |
| 7th | Saskatchewan 67 Ontario 40 | |
| 5th | Alberta 64 Nova Scotia 61 | |
| Bronze | New Brunswick 46 Manitoba 41 | |
| Final | British Columbia 77 Quebec 68 | |
In pool A play: …………………………………………………… Manitoba dumped Alberta 60-44 as Gail Winston scored 14 and Beth Johnston 11, along with 8 boards. Barb Hall added 7 boards and Teri Pura 6. Amanda Holloway led Alberta with 16. Nora Way added 14. Manitoba led 29-21 at the half. …………………………………………………… New Brunswick stuffed Newfoundland 74-25 as Karen Lee scored 19. …………………………………………………… Ontario clubbed Northwest Territories 64-18 as Cecile Bourret scored 16 and Jo-Anne Lazarus 14. Carolyn Robertson led NWT with 6. …………………………………………………… Manitoba thrashed the Northwest Territories 108-25. “Everything just kept going in,” said forward Barb Hall “We really felt terrible about it.” …………………………………………………… Manitoba dispatched Ontario 62-50 as Gail Winston scored 14. Cecile Bourret led Ontario with 14. …………………………………………………… Alberta edged Newfoundland 47-43 as Amanda Holloway scored 13. …………………………………………………… New Brunswick crushed Northwest Territories 83-17 as Lesley Nason scored 15. …………………………………………………… Manitoba defeated Newfoundland 59-43 as Gail Winston scored 14, Bernie Hart 11 and Terri Pura 10. Wendy Jackson nabbed 13 boards, Pura 7 and Beth Johnston 6. …………………………………………………… Alberta stuffed Ontario 68-51 as Amanda Holloway scored 17. …………………………………………………… Alberta whipped the Northwest Territories 62-19 as Amanda Holloway scored 17. …………………………………………………… New Brunswick thumped Alberta 61-48 as Joyce Douthwright and Kim Hansen each scored 14. Nora Way led Alberta with 14. …………………………………………………… Manitoba whipped the Northwest Territories 108-25 as Jane Edstrom scored 20. …………………………………………………… Ontario clubbed Newfoundland 71-16 as Jeanne Tuomi scored 14.
In pool B play: …………………………………………………… Quebec whipped Yukon 93-14 as Louis Roy and Francoise Aubry each scored 17. The Quebec women were coached by Richie Spears, who two weeks earlier got married on a basketball court to Norma and charged $1 admission to raise money for one his teams to travel to Czechoslovakia. He was married in a Unitarian ceremony on the centre court of Montreal’s Dawson College. His wife Norma was the basketball coach at Montreal’s John Rennie High and the pair met years earlier at a basketball clinic. “Our basketball philosophies agreed,” said Spears. “I believe in press drives; I could never marry anyone who believed in a slow-in system.” …………………………………………………… Quebec thrashed Nova Scotia 10-370 as Coleen Dufresne scored 28 and Liz Silcott 26. Helika Hudoffsky led Nova Scotia with 16. …………………………………………………… Saskatchewan stomped Prince Edward Island 97-34 as Heather Witzel scored 18. Susan Cash led PEI with 11. …………………………………………………… British Columbia clipped Yukon 98-14 as Bev Bland scored 14 Marg Mainwaring 13. Val Cave led Yukon with 4. …………………………………………………… Quebec thrashed Prince Edward Island 94-50 as Mireille Carbeil scored 17. …………………………………………………… British Columbia crushed Nova Scotia 78-34 as Dawn Storey scored 17. ……………………………………………………………………… Saskatchewan crushed Yukon 76-11 as Karen Kusler scored 15. Saskatchewan led 17-7 at the half. Saskatchewan coach Pat Jackson told the Regina Leader-Post that “I asked them to practice their fundamentals, like on defence. I told them to use their hands and on offence, to try and work their plays. But it depressed them. It was like a morgue in the dressing room after the first half and they felt embarrassed about playing the way they did. So, I told them to start playing basketball in the second half.” …………………………………………………… British Columbia dumped Saskatchewan 74-41 as Angie Dobie scored 16. Linda Vail led Saskatchewan with 12. Debbie Smith added 6, Karen Kusler 6 and Marg Curry 6. …………………………………………………… Nova Scotia stuffed the Yukon Territory 96-18 as Cynthia Dean scored 14. …………………………………………………… British Columbia whipped Prince Edward Island 92-21 as Bev Bland scored 16. …………………………………………………… Quebec stomped Saskatchewan 74-48 as Sylvia Sweeney scored 17. Karen Kusler led Saskatchewan with 14. Debbie Smith added 8 and Judy Seaman 8. …………………………………………………… Nova Scotia edged Saskatchewan 51-49. Linda Vail paced Saskatchewan with 11.
Over the course of the Games, Yukon chef de mission Helen Fitch created an enormous brouhaha by asserting that teams from larger provinces “seem determined to deliberately humiliate weaker teams from the territories.” Fitch added that Quebec basketball teams, in particular, “want to humiliate and embarrass every team they meet no matter how weak. … We didn’t come to these Games with any naive attitudes about the other teams or our own competency. We knew we would be up against some vastly superior teams, simply because of the variety of athletes they had to choose from. Our people in the Yukon and the ones in the Northwest Territories are very aware of what is going on in sports generally and they knew what they were up against. But I don’t like to see any earn try to wipe out another one. I don’t like to see a team use a full-court press in basketball when they are winning by more than 100 points against a much weaker team. No team should be humiliated at these games because of the deliberate actions of a stronger club. Those are bully tactics and they have no place in these games.” Nova Scotia basketball coach Frank Baldwin concurred, saying he watched a game in which he felt Quebec wanted to embarrass PEI. Quebec coach Robert Comeau said his club was too strong to contain itself against weaker teams. The Quebec men’s and women’s teams both employed full-court presses throughout their games.
In the semis, Quebec clubbed Manitoba 71-55 as Coleen Dufresne scored 22. Beth Johnston led Manitoba with 18. Quebec hit 11-18 from the line, while Manitoba was 8-25.
In the other semi, British Columbia edged New Brunswick 46-44 as Angie Dobie scored the winner with two seconds to play. Dobie notched 10.
In the 11th place playoff, the Northwest Territories dumped the Yukon Territory 42-31. The Territories included Bisaro, Boucher, Enge, Halifax, Kolbuc, Korte, Matterin, Carolyn Robertson, Sekulich and Sigler. Yukon (coached by Wayne Cave, manager Sherry Worke) included Val Cave, Dee Corpe, Diane Davies, Bunny Eluik, Mary Frost, Jean Henke, Jan Hickey, Rae McQuistin, Linda West, Rusty Reid and Wanda Wheelton.
In the 9th place playoff, PEI defeated Newfoundland 59-41. PEI included Bradley, Campbell, Susan Cash, Dunsford, King, MacEwen, Maclean, Mutch, Stearns and Trair. Newfoundland included Donna Brenton, Brett-Williams, Doyle, Macintosh, Martin, Polyck, Annette Rossiter, Scholter, Sutton, Sutton and Webber.
In the 7th place playoff, Saskatchewan stomped Ontario 67-40 after leading 29-23 at the half. Saskatchewan confused Ontario by switching from a man-to-man halfcourt zone press to a 1-2-2 zone. Ontario did not score a field goal until the 7:32 mark. Karen Kusler paced Saskatchewan with 14. Heather Witzell added 13 and Lorraine Wright 10. Saskatchewan (coached by Pat Jackson) also included Colborn, Marg Curry, Duke, Judy Seaman, Debbie Smith, Linda Vail, Wilson. Saskatchewan coach Pat Jackson told the Regina Leader-Post that “I think we were a little better than we showed in the standings.” Ontario included Cecile Bourret, Brousseau, Angela Ferguson, Laura Gillespie, Nancy Goodwin, Jo-Anne Lazarus, Muriel Mortson, Helen Row, Yonna Sutton, Gaye Owens and Jeanne Tuomi.
In the fifth-place match, Alberta nipped Nova Scotia 64-61. Alberta (coached by Debbie Shogun) included Amanda Holloway, Kathy Moore, Charlotte Shmyr, Diane Chisholm, Jennifer Cooper, Val Kallis, Deena Mitchell, Nicole Roberts, Norah Triska, Nora Way and Specht. Nova Scotia included Britten, Castonguay, Dean, Higgins, Helika Hudoffsky, Jensen, Mullane, Selig, Shute, White and White.
In the bronze medal match, New Brunswick edged Manitoba 46-41 as Joyce Douthwright and Leslie Nason each scored 15. Nason nabbed 8 boards and Claire Mitton 7. Beth Johnston paced Manitoba with 11. Gail Winston added 8 and Barb Hall 7. Shirley Hurst nabbed 14 boards. Manitoba led 29-24 at the half. But New Brunswick opened the second half with a 14-4 run. Manitoba coach Marion Alexander said “it was a real heart-breaker for the girls. But I’m not unhappy with their play. They performed very well. New Brunswick has a really good team. I think they had our number in that we are not known as a team that shoots from the outside. They played a real tough zone against us, forcing us to shoot from the outside. We couldn’t go inside because they had two players on us right away. It also hurt when Beth Johnston fouled out with 3:38 remaining in the game.” Manitoba outrebounded New Brunswick 37-27. Manitoba also included Jane Edstrom, Bernie Hart, Wendy Jackson, Terri Pura, Randles and Jane Vallentyne.
In the final, British Columbia defeated Quebec 77-68. BC attributed the win to film studies. “We watched the video tape of the game we’d lost to Quebec last week,” said Bev Barnes, who scored 18. “We saw the middle of their zone was open and we used that. It worked like a charm. We kept going to the middle and it kept right on working for us.” BC led by 41-36 at the half and by 17 in the second half but Quebec rallied within three down the stretch. Then Barnes took command. She had scored BC’s first eight points of the game and then came up with 8 to stifle the Quebec rally.
The bronze medalist New Brunswick: Nelda Robbins; Sue McDonald; Claire Mitton; Janet Proude; Leslie Olmstead; Kim Hansen; Karen Lee; Janet Goggin; Joyce Douthwright; Sylvia Blumenfeld; Lesley Nason; coach Fran McHugh; manager Mary Campbell
The silver medalist Quebec: Mirielle Roy-Corbeil; M. Kerwin; D. Schroder; Francoise Aubry; D. Lagace; Louise Roy; N. Knowlton; Coleen Dufresne; Liz Silcott; Sylvia Sweeney; E. Betchinski; E. Boivin; coach Olga Hrycak; assistant Wayne Hussey
The gold medalists from B.C.: Bev Barnes; Bev Bland; Angie Dobie; Marj Mainwaring; Edna Ritchie; Joanne Sargent; Wendy Grant; Teri McGovern; Dawn Storey; Carol Turney-Loos