July 11, 2026
Saturday
BROTHERS Jeron Alvin Teng and Jeric Allen Teng battled each other in the best-of-three championship series between De La Salle University and University of Santo Tomas during the 2013 University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) men’s basketball tournament. The younger Jeron, a sophomore, wound up winning the title and the Finals Most Valuable Player […]
UNIVERSITY of Santo Tomas lost a golden opportunity to snatch the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) men’s basketball crown last Saturday and it has only itself to blame. The Growling Tigers embraced coach Pido Jarencio’s battlecry of “puso” all right. But at crunch time, they experienced a mental meltdown and failed to utilize […]
FOR the newly-minted University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) men’s basketball titlist De La Salle University Green Archers, there’s the déjà vu feeling – a great resemblance to their 1999 finals’ conquest of their victims, the hard-luck University of Santo Tomas Growling Tigers. Stunningly identical to its UAAP campaign one score and four years […]
WILL the result of the winner-take-all Game Three of the 2013 University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) men’s basketball tournament between the De La Salle Green Archers and the University of Santo Tomas Growling Tigers be a replica of the 1999 finals? Or will it be a different Cinderella-like ending for a No. 4 […]
IT boils down to which team wants the title more. Hard-hat cage observers like this Hoopster keenly await the winner-take-all Game Three of the best-of-three finals of the 2013 University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) men’s basketball tournament between the University of Santo Tomas Growling Tigers and De La Salle University Green Archers to […]
ONE team looks to complete a Cinderella-like finish as the first-ever No. 4 seed in the Final Four era to capture the championship. The other team is on a nine-game roll and seeks two more victories to secure its first title in six years. Welcome to the 2013 University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) […]
TRACKING down the developments in Season 76 of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) men’s basketball tournament has driven me crazy with the on-court transgressions by the players and the off-court antics by the league officials. This makes me wonder and my fertile mind wander if this year’s collegiate competitions were being stage-managed […]
ONLY once in the 76-year University Athletic of the Philippines (UAAP) basketball history has one school swept all three championships in the juniors, men’s and women’s divisions in the same season. That came in 1994 (Season 57) when UST scored a grand slam with title victories in the three different divisions. In the men’s (collegiate) […]
COULD Season 76 of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) be the Year of the Bulldogs? So far, all the stars in the sky appear to be aligned in favor of National University in its fifth year under the SM Group headed by Hans Sy. Consider the following developments (individual accomplishments not included): […]
PARITY there exists in the collegiate basketball wars when three teams were deadlocked at first place with identical records at the end of the 14-game elimination round and the previous year’s finalists needed to knock each other out just to make it to the Final Four party. That is exactly what has happened in the […]
NO female athlete has ever suited up in an official National Basketball Association (NBA) game but that does not mean no woman has played in a men’s pro basketball league in the past. The historic distinction belongs to Nancy Lieberman-Cline, who is the first woman ever to see action in men’s pro league when she […]