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NCAA Season 87 Final Four preview

AFTER a grueling 18-game season, the NCAA moves on to host its own postseason party. Invited to the big bash are the reigning champions and their fiercest rivals, along with two unlikely, feel-good stories. Will the inevitable title matchup transpire, or can the underdogs deliberately …

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UAAP Season 74 Final Four preview

IT’S both funny and disgusting how making predictions could go absolutely haywire. Such is the nature of the beast, they say, but that won’t stop us from making yet another go at it. Four down, four left to go.

(1) Ateneo de Manila University …

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On advantages & the “S” word

S – the act of staying unbeaten in the elimination round while beating everybody else
S’er – the team that manages to remain undefeated in the elimination round while slaying the field
S’t – the past act of disposing off the competition without losing (conversely, the past …

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Degrees of disappointment

FOR every success story comes a desolate tale of defeat. Victors emerge at the expense of the tormented, and college ball is replete with converse accounts of triumph and disappointed. And while winning usually takes on a single, positive emotion, losing brings with it incomprehensible …

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UAAP Season 74 preview – Ateneo, FEU, UE

WITH the opening of UAAP Season 74 just a few days away, inboundpass zeroes in on the eight competing teams and their chances in the upcoming campaign.

Ateneo de Manila University Blue Eagles

2010 record: 10-4 (second place; beat Adamson in the Final Four before sweeping FEU …

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NCAA Season 87 preview – Arellano, LPU, Mapúa, San Sebastian, Perpetual Help

NCAA Season 87 kicks off on Saturday, July 2 at the Araneta Coliseum. In keeping with tradition, inboundpass breaks down the the 10 competing teams and sizes up each of their chances as the new season beckons.

Arellano University Chiefs

2010 record: 6-10 (sixth place)
Head coach: Leo …

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Random thoughts

THE TIME between the end of the summer leagues and the beginning of the so-called mother tournaments is one of randomness, when confidence meets apprehension and expectation and reality reacquaint. It’s arguably the most boring time of the year, yet some call it a power …

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Situation critical

A FEW weeks ago, I met up with a friend who’s closely associated, in a professional way, with the NCAA. Among the many things we talked about was the question of parity among teams in the league. Inevitably, the discussion centered on the manner in …

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The raging calm

IT was the calm before the storm. But the calm was different – it was raging, inquisitive and forceful.

The “ber” months and the first quarter of the succeeding calendar year make up what most of us call the off-season in collegiate hoops. The past four …

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The distance between: Looking back and ahead

ONLY a few kilometers separate the Ateneo de Manila University and University of the Philippines campuses in Quezon City. Yet, in basketball terms, they are light years away. Over at the heart of Manila, San Beda College and Arellano University are but a stone’s throw …

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Shades of xenophobia

FILIPINOS are generally regarded as a welcoming and friendly people, especially to foreigners. Tell that to a few members of the NCAA ManCom and Policy Board.

As first reported by inboundpass, some NCAA member-schools proposed to ban foreign students from suiting up in their league beginning …

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Where to, FEU?

FOR A WHILE, it seemed as if Far Eastern University was about to turn the page and rewrite its own history. Instead, it ended up as a footnote in Ateneo de Manila University’s own dynasty-making chapter. Were the Tamaraws wrongly judged by their cover?

Before …

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UAAP Season 73 Final Four preview

THE Final Four ensemble for UAAP Season 73 is complete. Judging by its cast of characters, 2010 could usher in a changing of the guard or the defense of the status quo. Times like these are anything but ordinary: they being either the best or …

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Changing times

THE National Collegiate Athletic Association is a bastion of history. It is the country’s oldest interscholastic varsity meet, the birthplace of the college game and its fiercest rivalries and the stage for the most memorable of triumphs and defeats. The NCAA’s story, as told and …

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Myth or mythical?

WHILE it may be too early to carve an epitaph for Far Eastern University, the Tamaraws did lose their first game – and in quite shocking circumstances at times. Without taking anything away from their conquerors, Adamson University, FEU, by most accounts, didn’t look like …

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