All is not lost
The college basketball wars have begun with the opening of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) 90th season on June 28 at the Mall of Asia Arena.
July 12, 2014
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The college basketball wars have begun with the opening of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) 90th season on June 28 at the Mall of Asia Arena.
The University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) may be the more popular league, but when it comes to grooming the next college basketball superstars, the National College Athletic Association (NCAA) high school division has so much to choose from.
It’s always thrilling to watch games in the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) between perennial rivals Ateneo and La Salle. These matches are intensified as fans enter the picture.
Quirky watches are a quick way to dress up an outfit—and to show school spirit.
In the 2013 UAAP Cheerdance Competition, the winners in the group stunts category were each given a Samsung ATIV Book 9 computer.
In a surprising move, the brass sections used by member schools of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) have been banned from playing inside the venues of the basketball games. This took effect in the opening game of the Ateneo Blue Eagles against the National University Bulldogs last June 30 at the Mall of Asia (MOA) Arena. At presstime, it wasn’t clear whether this was imposed by the UAAP board or the MOA Arena management.
The moment has come. The 76th season of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) gives another chance for the competing teams to prove which is the better school—athletics-wise, that is, especially in basketball.
In the evening of Oct. 4, 2002, several dining tables and bedrooms in Linden Suites in Ortigas were filled with frames with this line, “One chance!” This was the night before game three of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines’ men’s basketball championship. It was in Linden Suites where the Ateneo de Manila UAAP men’s basketball team was quartered for the championship series.
The Big Dome was filled to the rafters with an array of colors representing the eight universities—Adamson University (AdU), Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU), De La Salle University (DLSU), Far Eastern University (FEU), National University (NU), University of the East (UE), University of the Philippines (UP) and University of Santo Tomas (UST)—competing for the coveted title of best cheerdance squad; the penultimate event in this year’s University Athletic Association of the Philippines or UAAP’s athletic meet.
Ambitious and uncomfortable. That describes the opening ceremony of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines Season 74.
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