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CSB Blazers head coach Charles Tiu. File photo from Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News.

De La Salle College of St. Benilde and Lyceum University of the Philippines battle in the first round of the men's basketball tournement of the NCAA Season 99 in Pasay City on September 24, 2023. Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News

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NCAA Season 99 Men's Basketball Round 1

Romwel Anzures

ABS-CBN News

<div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:960px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/172776756957320230924-ncaa99-csb-lpu-2MD_1035 (1)-MD.jpeg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/><span class="fr-inner"><span contenteditable="true" id="isPasted" style="text-align:left">CSB Blazers head coach Charles Tiu against the LPU Pirates in NCAA Season 99 at the Mall of Asia Arena. <em>File photo from Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News.</em></span></span></span></span></div><p>MANILA — De La Salle College of St. Benilde almost squandered its 26-point advantage in a close victory over San Sebastian College-Recoletos.</p><p>Already holding a 67-41 cushion in the third and also an 84-69 lead midway through the fourth canto, the Blazers suddenly saw themselves going into overtime with the Golden Stags, with CSB even needing Jhomel Ancheta to hit a controversial game-winner to escape with a 96-94 win.</p><p>San Sebastian forced Benilde to commit 31 turnovers and tallied 20 steals to erase their 26-point deficit, and were even a Raymart Escobido buzzer-beater away from stealing the win, and this irked Blazers head coach Charles Tiu. </p><p>&quot;It&#x27;s an embarrassment,&quot; he said after the game on Tuesday at the San Juan Arena. </p><p>&quot;This is maybe the worst win of my life. I don&#x27;t want to say anything. I&#x27;m really, really mad, and we&#x27;re a joke right now. We gave up 31 turnovers, parang binibigay namin sa kanila yung bola eh. Nakakahiya talaga,&quot; added the Strong Group Athletics coach. </p><p>&quot;This is not the standard that we want. This is a sh*t game for us, we&#x27;re lucky that we came out with a win.&quot;</p><div><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/2024/10/1/ncaa-benilde-survives-san-sebastian-scare-in-ot-1421">READ: Ynot, Ancheta take over as Benilde survives San Sebastian scare in OT</a></div><p>Coach Charles also expressed his disappointment with Ancheta despite hitting the game-winner, especially since he was one of the guards who had multiple errors in the game. </p><p>&quot;Lahat ng point guards ko, kung anu-anong ginagawa eh. May five turnovers, four turnovers, wala na akong mabunot. So sabi ko: &#x27;Sige, bigyan natin ng chance.&#x27; Nagkakalat siya ng buong game, so maybe he&#x27;s bound to make something happen,&quot; he said of Jhomel, who had for turnovers.</p><p>&quot;Pero kahit yung tira na yun, chamba lang eh. I&#x27;m really upset, I&#x27;m really in a foul mood right now,&quot; he added. &quot;Chamba lang talaga yung panalo namin.&quot;</p><p>Tiu offered no explanations for why his players suddenly let their guard down as the game neared its end, saying that he has always reminded the Blazers of how dangerous NCAA teams are regardless of their standing. </p><p>&quot;I wouldn&#x27;t say lack of preparation. We were up by 26, tapos nag tapon na lang kami ng bola. &#x27;Di ko alam bakit ganun, so it&#x27;s something that we have to address,&quot; he explained. &quot;I told them before, in the NCAA, it&#x27;s hard to win. Any given day, any team can beat you.&quot;</p><p>&quot;I&#x27;m just really disappointed. I can&#x27;t do anything as a coach if they steal the ball from my players, we work on that. It doesn&#x27;t happen in other games, but for some reason, today, it happened.&quot;</p><p>&quot;I don&#x27;t even think that they&#x27;re the best defensive team compared to those that we played, so it&#x27;s on us. We slacked off. I don&#x27;t know what happened, I&#x27;m looking for an explanation, an excuse, but it&#x27;s really one of the worst games that I&#x27;ve been a part of with this type of team.&quot;</p><p>&quot;I think that we&#x27;re a Final Four team at the very least, but playing like this? This is like high school, actually parang grade school pa nga ngayon,&quot; he added of the loaded Blazers squad. </p><p>If there&#x27;s any solace from this game, said Tiu, is that it served as an eye-opener that there is still a long way to go for Benilde if they want to go all the way and win the NCAA men&#x27;s basketball crown. </p><p>&quot;Okay na rin na ganto ka aga. These are still learning experiences for us. We also previously lost to Letran, so we&#x27;re still not that good, &quot; offered Tiu, who gave a preview of what&#x27;s next for his boys in the days ahead of their game against Arellano University on Friday at the same venue. </p><p>&quot;We&#x27;re gonna practice hard and kill them tomorrow, probably. No breaks,&quot; he said. </p><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO:</strong></div><div><ivs-player data-ivs-key="e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603" data-ivs-spid="3001339" data-ivs-vid="3070107" data-ivs-shg-loaded="1"></ivs-player></div><script src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/js/loader.js"></script>

<p>"I'm really, really mad, and we're a joke right now."</p>

"I'm really, really mad, and we're a joke right now."

'Worst win of my life': Tiu disappointed with Blazers after near-meltdown vs. Stags

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'Worst win of my life': Tiu disappointed with Blazers after near-meltdown vs. Stags

Romwel Anzures,

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Published Oct 01, 2024 04:41 PM PHT

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