WHO’S your pick for the University Athletics Association of the Philippines men’s basketball tournament? Why do you believe your team will be the champion this year?
In Saturday’s opening ballgames, comebacking La Salle massacred my alma mater, University of the Philippines, while National University shocked Far Eastern University in overtime.
Here’s an excerpt from Jasmine Payo’s story for the Philippine Daily Inquirer:
The De La Salle University Green Archers marked their collegiate comeback with an 82-61 rout of the University of the Philippines Maroons at the start of the UAAP men’s basketball tournament yesterday at the Araneta Coliseum.
Wearing green jackets printed with the words, “We’re back. We’re one,” the Archers wasted no time in establishing their dominance of the Maroons, with Cholo Villanueva getting to work early and winding up with a game-high 19 points for La Salle, which relied anew on its no-breathing-room defense to grab the victory.
“We played defense pretty well, pretty solid,” said La Salle coach Franz Pumaren, whose wards spent a year cooling their heels after the school was slapped a suspension due to an eligibility scandal.
July 9th, 2007 at 7:09 am
we welcome the arrival of DLSU from its suspension…anyway, UAAP is not just basketball, what is important is the overall championship…we’ll see if DLSU will capture the overall championship.
July 8th, 2007 at 3:19 pm
ANIMO LA SALLE !!!
July 8th, 2007 at 10:08 am
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