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UAAP SEASON 87

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<div><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/1724483035577UPMBTinTaiwan.jpg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt="The UP men&#x27;s basketball team in Chinese-Taipei. Handout/UP OASD"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">The UP men&#x27;s basketball team in Chinese-Taipei. <em>Handout/UP OASD</em></span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">MANILA -- The University of the Philippines will compete with teams from Chinese-Taipei and Thailand, two weeks before the start of the UAAP Season 87 men&#x27;s basketball tournament.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Fighting Maroons are already in Keelung City, where they are part of an eight-team cast for the 2024 Interleague Play from Aug. 24 to 31 inside the Keelung Gymnasium.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Coming off back-to-back runner-up finishes, State U has its sights set on getting over the hump with JD Cagulangan, Harold Alarcon, and Season 86 Rookie of the Year Francis Lopez showing the way. Joining the maroon and green, meantime, are Filipino-Americans Quentin Millora-Brown, Gani Stevens, and Jacob Bayla, as well as Nigerian foreign student-athlete Dikachi Udodo.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">&quot;We are aware of the expectations, siyempre, and we welcome them naman, pero tayo naman, ever since, ang focus natin is getting better each game,&quot; said head coach Goldwin Monteverde.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Before their first game in Season 87 on September 7 at the Araneta Coliseum, however, UP MBT&#x27;s mettle will first be tested by Thailand&#x27;s Bangkok University and Chinese Taipei&#x27;s U22 Elite Team, Asian University Basketball Championship Representative Team, Bank of Taiwan, Changhua BLL, Taiwan Beer, and the TPBL team in the single-round robin tournament organized by the Chinese Taipei Basketball Association.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Fighting Maroons will come home on August 31, right after finishing their third overseas trip in the preseason which also included training camps in Serbia and Korea.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">UP emerged as champions in Season 84, ending a 36-year drought, then finished as runners-up in Season 85 and 86 to Ateneo and La Salle, respectively.</span></div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div>

<p>The University of the Philippines will compete with teams from Chinese-Taipei and Thailand, two weeks before the start of the UAAP Season 87 men's basketball tournament.</p>

The University of the Philippines will compete with teams from Chinese-Taipei and Thailand, two weeks before the start of the UAAP Season 87 men's basketball tournament.

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UP caps build-up for UAAP Season 87 with tourney in Chinese-Taipei

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Published Aug 24, 2024 03:04 PM PHT

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