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Ateneo Dual Meet Champs, 3-2, but missed UAAP Season 70 Finals

by Josef Ramos
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Cholo Villanueva, before saying goodbye to the UAAP, assured everybody that there will be a family feud in the finals of the 70th UAAP men’s basketball tournament.

Villanueva delivered the key baskets in the final period as De La Salle University bamboozled Ateneo De Manila University, 65-60, for a title-showdown with unbeaten University of the East last September 30, 2007 at the Araneta Coliseum.

The 6-foot-2 combo guard Villanueva, playing his last year in the UAAP, fired 9 of his 13 points in the pivotal fourth quarter with one crucial offensive rebound in the same period to seal the victory that mattered most.

“This is my last Ateneo game because I’m a graduating student,� said Villanueva, who shot 5-of-8 in the two-point field. “So I really want to make this game very, very memorable, and I did.�

After Villanueva’s lay up that provided the Green Archers their biggest advantage, 55-46, with 5:29 minutes to go in the last quarter, Eric Salamat scored on a three-point play to trim down the Blue Eagles’ deficit to 55-49 with 4:56 minutes to go.

But Villanueva stretched the La Salle advantage to nine, 58-49, after firing a triple with 4:19 minutes left in the game.

Despite Ateneo’s effort to reduce the deficit to 55-60 in the last two-minute mark, Villanueva, again, came up with an answer by hitting a jumper to give La Salle a 62-55 cushion with a minute remaining.

The Blue Eagles, still resisting, had narrowed the gap to only two, 60-62, after Clifford Arao scored on two free throws and Severino Baclao made a triple with 11 seconds left.

Ateneo’s attempts to come back were futile as it absorbed two turnovers, forcing them to send Joseph Casio and Rico Maierhofer to the free throw line.

Casio converted both free throws and Maierhofer split his charities with few seconds remaining before the buzzer.

“I guess two is better than three,� said La Salle mentor Franz Pumaren, referring to the Green Archers’ three losses and two wins against archrival Ateneo this season. “I told my players that they worked hard for this so they deserved to be in the finals.�

Ateneo extended the series to a do-or-die game after winning last September 27 via a 65-64 squeaker through Chris Tiu’s breakaway lay up.

Tiu, who only had 10 points, scored only two points in the final period due to La Salle’s outstanding defense.

“We learned our mistake in our previous losses to Ateneo particularly last week,� said Pumaren. “I’m glad we are able to solve the Ateneo puzzle.�

It looked like La Salle had prepared an effective game plan this time as it controlled the game the rest of the way after leading the first (16-14), second (29-26) and third (48-43) quarters.

After they were out-rebounded last Thursday (Sept. 27), 41-29, the Green Archers, this time, had 51 rebounds – including 19 offensive rebounds – against 36 for the Blue Eagles and registered only 6 offensive rebounds.

Also in their previous game, Ateneo registered 23-out-of-49 (46.9%) from the field against La Salle’s 22-out-of-63 (34.9%) to help them stretch the series.

But this time, La Salle hit 27-out-of-73 (37%) total field goals while Ateneo made only 18-out-of-56 (32.1%).

Playmaker Tyrone Tang had 12 points, including two triples, while Maierhofer added 12 points and 10 rebounds. Casio had a spectacular performance with 10 points, 6 assists and 6 rebounds. Arao paced Ateneo with 14 points and Salamat finished with 10.

Franz Pumaren will face younger brother Dindo, head coach of the University of the East Red Warriors in Game one of their best-of-three Finals, called by many as the league’s newest ‘family feud’, on Thursday (October 4).

“He wished me good luck,� said Franz Pumaren when asked by reporters regarding Dindo’s message before this game. “I think we will talk after the season is over (he laughs).�

Individual scores:

La Salle 65: Villanueva 13, Tang 12, Maierhofer 12, Casio 10, Malabes 5, Atkins 5, Walsham 4, Ferdinand 2, Cua 2, Mangahas 0, Barua 0, Co 0.

Ateneo 60: Arao 14, Salamat 10, Tiu 10, Baclao 7, Al-Hussaini 6, Reyes 5, Long 4, Baldos 2, Escueta 2, Monfort 0, Laterre 0.

Quarter scoring: 16-14, 29-26, 48-43, 65-60

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  • THES  Add karma Subtract karma  +0
    Saturday, 13 October 2007 at 5:19 am

    THES has no credibility:
    http://www.unisg.ch/org/hsg/rankings.nsf/wwwPubInhalteEng/Times+Higher+Education+Supplement+Ranking?opendocument

    St.Gallen is not participating in the World University Rankings of the Times Higher Education Supplement (THES)

    In 2004 the THES started tp publish its global rankings of whole universities. They use 6 very different criteria to assess research performance (20%), teaching quality as measured by the student-academic staff ratio (20%), internationalization of academic staff and student body (10%), reputation among global employers (10%) and mainly reputation among international peers (40%). The University of St.Gallen has decided not to participate in the 2007 ranking, as in the 2006 ranking, because of significant methodological reservations. The reasons can be summarized as follows:

    Each of the criteria used in the ranking measure some aspect of university quality. But it is not perceivable what the average result of research performance, teaching quality, internationalization, and reputation among employers and academedic peers adds up to? And is not clear either for whom this mix of information may be of value?
    We have our doubts that the University of St.Gallen as a whole can be a sensible object of rankings. Its programmes in Management are different from its programmes in Law and in International Affairs, and its teaching quality is different from its research quality. Ranking results will look very differently whatever is chosen as its object. Again, we are asking ourselves, what an overall ranking of all of this possibly can mean and to whom such an average may be of value?
    A comparative evaluation of universities on a global scale is a very bold undertaking, indeed. It means to disregard the enormous diversity of universities, of political missions and contexts, of ownership, history, cultural background, size, orientation, strategy and structure. In light of these differences: What is the use of a comparison between a small (5000 students), focussed (Business, Economics, Law and International Affairs), 100 year old public university located in the east of Switzerland and full-line universities, ten times as big, with 600 years of scientific tradition, in a completely different cultural and politicial setting?
    The ranking is based heavily on a subjective assessment of an unknown number of academics scattered across the world, who are asked to evaluate universities they value highly. The question here is, how many different universities can be assessed in a valid way by one academic? And as academics come from a well defined disciplinary background, their assessment will be based on their discipline. How can this be used as an assessment of the university as a whole?
    Based on the 2006 ranking THES published a book, the “Guide to the World’s Top Universities, London 2006″. Although the University of St.Gallen has not provided any data, it is still listed in the “Directory of over 500 top world universites”, under Sweden, however, not under Switzerland. In addition, there are discipline specific rankings, with St.Gallen coming out as number 338 in the Life Sciences & Biomedicine and number 463 in Engineering & IT. Most irritating in all of this: St.Gallen is not involved in these disciplines at all!

  • Impending Victors  Add karma Subtract karma  +0
    Thursday, 4 October 2007 at 10:04 pm

    This is the part where all you lasalle bashers eat your words. Tama na bashing. Let’s just watch the games coz they speak for themselves. WE WILL BE CHAMPIONS. It’s inevitable. :)

  • duh!  Add karma Subtract karma  +0
    Thursday, 4 October 2007 at 6:32 pm

    lasalle beat ue today! haha GO FIGHT! GREEN ARCHERS

  • red flag  Add karma Subtract karma  +0
    Thursday, 4 October 2007 at 5:27 pm

    ue fightue fight ue fight

  • ANAK_NG_PULA  Add karma Subtract karma  +0
    Thursday, 4 October 2007 at 2:51 pm

    kawawa namang nilalang tong si stupid berde… lahat nalang pinapatulan. Hey mongoloid berde wag kang mayabang at hambog!

  • berde  Add karma Subtract karma  +0
    Thursday, 4 October 2007 at 2:33 pm

    iladshit: shut up

  • iladshit  Add karma Subtract karma  +0
    Wednesday, 3 October 2007 at 5:50 pm

    (berde)

    paksyet ka ulul. WTH?! fool

  • berde  Add karma Subtract karma  +0
    Wednesday, 3 October 2007 at 5:07 pm

    tezuka:
    “deceirving”? WTF!!??? Bobo!

  • tezuka  Add karma Subtract karma  +0
    Wednesday, 3 October 2007 at 2:58 pm

    go ue ….i think ue will be d champs coz their deceirving for that after sweeping the eliminations..la salle good luck na lang.

  • DLSU=PEPsquad (new definition)  Add karma Subtract karma  +0
    Wednesday, 3 October 2007 at 12:57 pm

    As an Atenean, I welcome all THES related banter. Sige lang La Salle, nakakatuwa din naman eh. Not nakakapikon at all, if you ask me.

    Better to be known as the lower ranked school in THES than to be known as the school who ranked high in THES but faked PEP Test results!!! PEP Test na nga lang, peke pa!!! PEP TEST!!!!

    i checked the link UniversityRankings posted by the way. the one who wrote it was not an atenean, it was the explanations of the QS experts as published in inq7.

  • THES Forever!  Add karma Subtract karma  +0
    Wednesday, 3 October 2007 at 6:31 am

    Kumusta naman ang mga THEniSta?

    THES kayo ngayon! Tangna niyo!

  • bilad  Add karma Subtract karma  +0
    Wednesday, 3 October 2007 at 4:46 am

    insecure lang mga atenista. pati THES rankings hahanapan pa ng butas. hindi na lang tanggapin at face value. atenistas (not ateneo) lang yata ang tumitira dito dahil they ranked so low behind la salle. kung sakali sila ang lamang, sigurado ibibida nila ito.

    kaya lang nilabas ngayon ng lallistas ito dahil sa patuloy na panlalait nila sa atin. last year pa ito pero lasallians just kept it to themselves. no bragging about it on our part.

  • OFW  Add karma Subtract karma  +0
    Wednesday, 3 October 2007 at 1:45 am

    University Rankings: Among the Philippine universities, the Ateneo ranked highest in Graduate Employability. This was drawn from Recruiter Review based on the responses of recruiters in the QS database and media and university referrals. The other criteria are simple inputs of quantitative data that QS was able to gather either directly from the universities, from the website, or from previous year’s data.

    The highest rank in Recruiter Review means that from the point of view of the world outside, Ateneo graduates are the most sought-after in terms of employment.

    Eto ang kalokohan! masaya nga maging OFW kasi walang atenista eh! sa mga company dito, may licensed architects, engineers, CPAs, doctors, nurses, med tech etc. wala namang mga ganun ang ateneo kaya wala sila dito! sabi nga ng boss kung kano ng may mangahas mag-refer ng atenista sa kumpanya, “Why should I hire this guy when he has NO PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATION?” saka FYI, yung Ateneo law school eh post-grad. Meaning, may mga galing sa ibang universities na may pre-law courses! kaya lang naman sila naha-hire sa pinas eh dahil puro Atenista ang HR!
    ANIMO LA SALLE!!!

  • ping guerrero  Add karma Subtract karma  +0
    Tuesday, 2 October 2007 at 11:43 pm

    inggit. nyeh nyeh.

    palibhasa school nyo paurong.

    parang cold war lang yan eh…kayo yung soviet union. masyado kayo nagfofocus sa paglaglag sa lasalle nakakalimutan nyo na ang iimprove yung sistema nyo. ngayun hindi nyo matanggap ang katotohanan at pilit na nagbubulag bulagan. nilalaglag nyo kami dahil gumagaling kami, kayo talaga ang masama. kailan ba namin tinira ang ateneo as an institution. sa basketball talaga asaran pero hanggang dun lang yun, eh kami kulang nalang ilaglag nyo sa impiyerno. well halata naman na inggit kayo eh, malelenchon din yang eagle nyo sa impiyerno kapag namatay na kayo.

  • fINAL  Add karma Subtract karma  +0
    Tuesday, 2 October 2007 at 11:22 pm

    How true, how true………Ang Sarap Maging Atenista!!!!

    Thank you University Rankings; this clears it all. This makes the rankings even funnier and dubious — mas higher pa in rank ang La Salle sa UP? O sya, if you guys really wanna’ believe it so bad, so be it!

    Curious lang ako, may alam ka bang tanggal sa La Salle na nag transfer to Ateneo? Baka pwede sana natin ma interview about this and perhaps can shed some light on the issue. Wala talaga akong kilala e.

    Sarap maging Atenista! Yes!

  • The Blue Marc  Add karma Subtract karma  +0
    Tuesday, 2 October 2007 at 8:50 pm

    #

    Impending Victors
    Monday, 1st October 2007 at 9:30 pm

    Blue Talon. You guys started it. Don’t bite what you can’t “TIU�. The “suspended� chants were unnecessary. The “wrong spelling� too. So if you guys wanna do it that way then hey, we can play along too. Well, personally I don’t really have much against ateneo except for the students bashing LaSalle. I actually have LOADS of Atenean friends. It’s just the fact that some Ateneans don’t know when to stop. So if you’re wondering if it was called for, I say YES. Everything I said was called for. Keep the bashes coming coz in the end, we WILL have the last laugh. Go LaSalle!

    Suspended at Wrong Spelling- these chants didn’t blatantly say which school or whose (in particular) below the belt yung TIU (Si chris tiu ‘yan, eh kami dinadaan namin sa siste.)

  • University Rankings  Add karma Subtract karma  +0
    Tuesday, 2 October 2007 at 4:24 pm

    Ang Sarap Maging Atenista!!

    University rankings

    In an effort to explain the rankings and to answer many questions, Ben Sowter, QS head for research, and Mandy Mok, QS regional director for Asia Pacific, met with various Philippine university officials, both jointly and separately. This is what we found.
    The ranking of the different universities is based on four key themes: Graduate Employability, International Commitment, Teaching Quality, and Research Quality. What did we find?
    First, the good news—for both students and parents. Among the Philippine universities, the Ateneo ranked highest in Graduate Employability. This was drawn from Recruiter Review based on the responses of recruiters in the QS database and media and university referrals. The other criteria are simple inputs of quantitative data that QS was able to gather either directly from the universities, from the website, or from previous year’s data.
    The highest rank in Recruiter Review means that from the point of view of the world outside, Ateneo graduates are the most sought-after in terms of employment.
    Not so encouraging are the results of Peer Review, worth 40 percent. But how does Peer Review work? The score for Peer Review was determined by the responses of active academics. Each academic was asked to select the 30 best universities in their subject area (Arts and Humanities, Engineering and IT, Life Sciences and Biomedicine, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences) in their chosen region (North America, Europe, Asia, etc.). There were equal weights given to the five subject areas.
    The Peer Review, which has the biggest weight, provides some real challenges that must be understood and overcome. One of these is the absence of Ateneo from the ranking in the Arts and Humanities, an area traditionally identified as a strong point of Ateneo. This suggests that Ateneo will have to work to be better known by colleagues abroad. However, there are also questions about the accuracy of the survey. Only about 1 percent of those surveyed returned the questionnaire, yet this accounts for 40 percent of the score.
    The Ateneo also ranked low in the area of student-faculty ratio. But there is serious question about the comparability and accuracy of the data used and how they were sourced.
    There is more good news, however. In the area of International Faculty and International Students, the Ateneo ranked highest, thus placing the Ateneo on top in internationalization. But this comes as no surprise considering that Ateneo has been a pioneer in providing students with a global perspective through its Junior Term Abroad in 39 institutions in 11 countries (Australia, China, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, France, Spain, Germany, Norway, and the United States), and through its China and Europe study tours. - This is the Program that Chris Tiu took in France.
    Indeed, the rankings pose questions that need further study and introspection. One question that has already been repeatedly raised even by other top universities is how seriously these rankings should be taken, although they have been used for recruitment purposes and bragging rights. While they provide some measure of comparison, how do they relate to the mission and goals of the university? To what extent should measures be taken to improve the rankings and at what cost?
    Clearly, the survey hardly delves into what Ateneo does best: the total formation of students. There is nothing in the instrument that shows how a university deliberately puts systems in place so that its students may become nurturing persons, life-long learners and heroic leaders, and that there have been positive outcomes reflected in its graduates. This formation for leadership is what makes Ateneo the highly regarded university that it has been for almost 150 years.
    In an earlier article of Ateneo president Fr. Bienvenido F. Nebres, S.J., he points out: “Rankings in the Times survey are important because they measure how the world perceives us. But just as a person has to take what people think of them in the context of their own values and priorities, we, too, have to reflect on these perceptions and measures within our own view of our vision and mission. Thus, while we will work on strengthening our research and publications in ISI journals … we need to do this in a way that does not move us away from our vision/mission and our traditional strengths: leadership formation and contribution to national development. These have to continue to be our priorities as a Jesuit university committed to the service of faith and the promotion of justice; and as a university in a Philippines whose greatest challenge is overcoming poverty and national development.�
    P.S. To my colleagues in the law school: Law did not seem to figure in the survey at all. But secure as we are of our place in the Philippine legal firmament, I am sure there is a lot more we can do. (INQ7)

    Article Link: http://www.asianjournal.com/?c=193&a=18194

  • fINAL  Add karma Subtract karma  +0
    Tuesday, 2 October 2007 at 2:56 pm

    peruvianfish, i totally agree!

    ilad_spirit, no reason for you to get hot under the collar here, kewl ka lang. Just asking you to check out how they rank it. baka naman pati population kasama. I myself don’t know and you might be kind enough to share the correct information here. As far as I know (maybe factual for me but not for you), no matter what stats we are talking about, Ateneo is the first school of choice over La Salle (basta kaya lang ng utak and bulsa……. in that order). Kaya nga you have former UAAP archer players who have kids studying at the Ateneo now. And yes, let me add, there were several great UAAP players that went to Ateneo first but were not accepted because of several reasons such as………..not passing the ACET or may mga demands na hindi nalang kukuha ng ACET, etc. I am sure the coaches then would have wanted those players at all cost but Ateneo will not bend their rules and had to just say “thank you for choosing Ateneo first.” And yes, they went to other (papers or no papers, you are accepted now) schools and became great UAAP players of their time….sayang, but that is why, we like our school!

    Need I say more than this — > nothing quantifies the values that ateneo has imbibed to its students. Amen! Well said, peruvianfish.

    Galing talaga ng season 70! Kahit takot ako ma injure ang blue eagles everytime they face La Salle esp. sa games 4 and 5, thank God walang nangyari. Binigyan kasi ng stern warning ang lahat ng teams to play clean esp.,we know who.

    Great game blue eagles! As always, the blue eagles stand high and mighty alongside the morals required of true athletes (at least alam ko required yan sa Loyola—–can’t really tell for sure about the other—-or baka iba ang definition ng morals doon?!!).

    Congrats again La Salle for the win…..you did play better than the eagles in game 5 and it sure does not hurt when the refs have decided who should win before the game has even started (tapos na nga sana ng game 4 e; or even game2 for that matter. E, hindi mapigilan……….)——-’win at all cost’ to say the least.
    One thing is for sure, there has never been any issue in Loyola about “eagles selling their game” when eagles are defeated—– we humbly accept defeat with honor even if we play against all odds. CHRIStians nga kami and not PROTESTants!

    Great season!!!!

    GOOD LUCK RED AND GREEN — Christmas colors na!

  • ANIMO-ANINO 1971  Add karma Subtract karma  +0
    Tuesday, 2 October 2007 at 2:44 pm

    Dyaske katuwa kayong mga kabataan, matindi harurot kanchawan. T’was d same during our time sans text or e-mail just the war of attrition from debates to campus press releases and the more vocal bulyaw sa kalye kung gaano kabulok at kagaling ang kanya-kanyang eskwelahan. Noon mas madalas nauuwi sa sapakan at basagan ng salamin ng koche kasama P.I. ng Pinoy, B.L.S. ng Chinoy, F.U. ng Kano at CHINGGA ng mga Coño-Banana.Magkaabangan sa Taft at Faura. Buti na lang the BlueEggBoys preferred the higher nesting grounds of Loyola kaya Blog nlang tayo mga iha’t-iho. Time flies, Ateneo soars, La Salle scores, everyone roars! It’s the school you choose!

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