UAAP 2007 (Season 70)

[chua_riwap]

Ilang tulog na lang, UAAP na naman! Ang "returnee" na DLSU, sasabak agad against UP. Mukhang malakas pa rin ang Green Archers with the addition of 2 foreign players.

July 7 (Araneta Coliseum)
DLSU vs. UP 2:00-4:00pm
NU vs. FEU 4:00-6:00pm

July 8 (NA Stadium)
ADMU vs. AdU 2:00-4:00pm
UST vs. UE 4:00-6:00pm

Ang UST, nabawasan ng MVP, si Duncil, pa-PBA na. How about the Blue Eagles? Sino ba mga "pro-bound" sa line-up nila? Si Bono ng AdU, pa-PBA na rin daw.

Well, let's see. For sure, magiging exciting pa rin ang UAAP, esp. with the return of the Green Archers in the UAAP wars.

[The Prince]

good luck to the Ateneo de Manila University Blue Eagles and The University of Santo Tomas Growling Tigers!!

this coming saturday na ang opening diba?
sino pala by the way ang hosts this season 70?


:gouste:

[CVT]

Good luck to all the teams!

3101:transform:

[baludoy]

marko batricevic, the serbian big man of dlsu, is reportedly out for the season due to an acl injury. in connection w/ this, two more of dlsu's fil-fors (Bader Malabes and PJ Walsham) are being asked by the uaap board to submit the necessary papers before the season begins.

amidst weeks of festering nasty rumours regarding his eligibility, controversial growling tiger, jojo duncil, suddenly announced he will turn pro. if you've kept abreast w/ the uaap during the off-season, you'd be surprised that after weeks of press releases saying he will play for the espana based team by duncil himself, the coach, and ust; duncil's change of heart was definitely unexpected.

How about the Blue Eagles? Sino ba mga "pro-bound" sa line-up nila?

the trio of escalona, kramer, and intal, having graduated in march, are now out of the line-up and are said to be sure draft picks come pba draftday.

Si Bono ng AdU, pa-PBA na rin daw

ken bono is out after refusing to start all-over again w/ new coach bogs adornado. adornado is replacing welcoat coach leo austria as chief tactician of the adamson crew

they say patrick cabahug will finally suit up for the falcons, after initially having doubts of matriculating in adamson again this school year.

even though marvin cruz, the star point guard of the up maroons, has decided to forego his final playing year, i think the fighting maroons will be major players in the league this season. aside from the fact that their superb sophomores (reyes, co, and de asis) are back, a number of tall and talented baby tamaraws have migrated to diliman. another relevant development is that coach lipa made a recruiting coup by signing-up burly blue eaglet star, mike gamboa. these new faces in the line-up will definitely make an impact come game time

[BoEinG_747]

mga Mods..pwede merge ba lang natin ito sa Ginawa na thread Devastator
re college basketball..gaya last year isang thread lang ang NCAA at UAAP

dito kasi UAAP lang magiging topic magaganda din naman ang laro sa NCAA

at madami din tsikoteers galing ng San Beda,Letran,Mapua.

[chain]

found this published in a blog:

JOJO Duncil, the player under scrutiny by the UAAP board, has pushed the escape button. Even he didn’t tell us. Duncil and UST did the best way possible probably to avoid controversy referring to Duncil’s birth certificates – the dissimilarity between the photo copy record of UAAP eligibility committee and his true record from the NSO.

His record in the UAAP said he was born in 1983, contrary to his authenticated NSO record. His NSO record stated that he was born in 1982. If he was born in 1982 means that he cannot play this season because he is 25 years old. Only players below 24 years old are allowed to play UAAP basketball.

Just three days ago, I went to the UAAP and I’m really happy to meet the man they call Jojo Duncil, last year’s finals MVP who took charge of the Growling Tiger’s destiny to a 2-1 victory over Ateneo to claim the 69th UAAP title. We had a great conversation and some questions were answered.

Jojo said to me there are lots of people who are trying to destroy his reputation and tarnish the name of his school by riding on the issue. But despite those intrigues (as he treats it), he said he’ll play this year even if some schools will oppose his eligibility.

“Lalaban kami kahit ano mangyari, lalaro ako para matulungan ko ang aking eskwelahan para maging champion ulit kami,” he bravely told this writer.

Jojo also admitted last Wednesday after the team’s practice that his birth certificate was accidentally doubled when the municipality of Apalit had lost his original birth certificate many years back.

“When my older sister tried to get a copy of my birth certificate, our municipality lost it and replaced the document with a wrong year of birth (1982),” said Duncil. “By July, I’m hoping everything will be cleared because we are donig something about it.” Duncil was referring to a court proceeding in his hometown in Apalit, Pampanga.

That was our conversation… Now it’s up to you to translate what he said.

Three days later, i received a press release via my email, saying that Duncil will forgo his remaining year to have a shot of becoming a professional basketball, though I’m not surprised.

Here’s the press release sent by the UAAP host:

SPORTS SECTION PLEASE, URGENT UAAP RELEASE, THANK YOU VERY MUCH

Duncil foregoes final year of eligibility, decides to turn pro.

JOJO Duncil, the 24-year-old who led the Santo Tomas Growling Tigers to an improbable Cinderella finish last year, has decided to forego his final year of UAAP eligibility to join the coming Philippine Basketball Assocation Draft.

The crafty, 6-foot shooting guard got the blessings of school officials and his coach, Pido Jarencio, after a long talk yesterday, with Jarencio saying that he will not in any way “stand in the way of his progress.”

” It is his and his family’s decision,” Jarencio said. “He already served his school well, and with that we are grateful. It’s time for us, as his guardians here (at UST), to support him in his career move.”

A native of Apalit town in Pampanga, Duncil, who won the Finals MVP last season when the Tigers upset the Ateneo Blue Eagles, 2-1, in the title series, was also a vital cog of the Harbour Centre team that won the PBL Unity Cup recently. His contract with the Batang Pier will expire at the end of this month.

” I want to play against the best and it is at this stage of my career where I feel that I can do that,” Duncil, who is the second blue-chip player to skip this year’s UAAP after Adamson’s Ken Bono, said in Filipino. “I am very thankful for UST officials for giving me their blessings.”

The PBA Draft is set in the second week of August and Duncil is expected to be snagged high in the order. Duncil attended practice at the UST gym yesterday to bid teammates farewell and wish them the best in their title defense, which starts Saturday next week.

Bono, the burly 6-foot-5 center who has a soft, accurate touch from the outside, is also reportedly set to enlist in the pool, which could go down as one of the richest in recent years.

I personally don’t know what the UAAP board will tell UST on Tuesday. But I’m sure they will throw this question: Why did UST and Duncil did not wait for our decision before releasing this press statement?

Anyway regarding my own opinion, UST and Duncil did the right thing…hopefully public perception will prevail.

[chua_riwap]

Dami basketball............. Magsawa ka!

Merong Jones Cup, PBA, NCAA.

Now, UAAP naman!

Di pa nagu-umpisa pero, eto top 3 ko:

- La salle
- Ateneo
- UST

[boybi]

mga Mods..pwede merge ba lang natin ito sa Ginawa na thread Devastator
re college basketball..gaya last year isang thread lang ang NCAA at UAAP

dito kasi UAAP lang magiging topic magaganda din naman ang laro sa NCAA

at madami din tsikoteers galing ng San Beda,Letran,Mapua.

Why not create a separate NCAA thread?

[chua_riwap]

Nalo raw La Salle.........

[russpogi]

Animo LA SALLE! Hahaha!!!

[Devastator]

Yup, 82-61. They really played well from the start.

[torque2006]

batricevic is day-to-day. There is a small tear in the ligament, but there's no need to operate on it. He can walk on his own, unlike real ACL injuries where you'd have to get braces and casts and surgery.

james mangahas has a mild sprain which he sustained in the game with UP.

[raikkah]

Go Uste....

But I would not expect the same thing to happen again...

Sarap lang makita yung isang Manager sa amin na taga Ateneo.... nung natalo sila..... Asar talo......

[CVT]

Nice games yesterday. DLSU got off to a good start....

3202:rainbow:

[The Prince]

my top3

ATENEO
LA SALLE
UST

UST has game ata today at the cuneta astrodome; by the way, nice OPENING PERMORMANCE / Event of UST Yesterday ha.:gouste:

nice game also by De La Salle.

[Devastator]

Ngayon na yung big game: Ateneo vs. La Salle.

[Negus]

waah.... kung may live stream kayo share niyo naman ang link

[kyle618]

talo lasalle 80-77. nice game though! Animo Lasalle pa rin!

[stadaenko]

ok lang. the last time ateneo won over la salle was, if i remember right, during the marcos era??? i could be wrong but it seems like a really distant memory. hehehe. at least with the ateneo win, the rivalry scales another rung, and this season is going to become very very interesting indeed.

[baludoy]

how sweet it is!

despite pumaren parading a 7 year veteran in villanueva and a 6 year veteran in t*ng, the the hail mary squad still managed to steal yesterday's game in over time.

my hats off to casio for keeping dlsu in the game. w/o him, the game would have been less than memorable

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