UNIVERSITY of the Philippines hopes to complete what it failed to do in the two previous UAAP men’s basketball Finals, closing out the series and winning
it all.
The Fighting Maroons are bracing for a big Green Archers’ fightback and whatever in-game adjustments the defending champions will throw in Game 2 at 5:30 p.m. today at the SM Mall of Asia Arena. A victory by the Green Archers will send the series to a Game 3 on Sunday at the Smart Araneta Coliseum. “Talk about mindset, again our mantra since Day 1 is to and was to improve on the daily. We always want to get better than the day before, and that will still be our mantra, that will still be our mindset to get better from the next days before our next game so that we could be more ready come Game 2 and hopefully, we will play a lot better in Game 2 so that we could be nearing dun sa gusto naming destination this year,” Dimaunahan said.
In the junior high school division, University of the East and UST will clash in the division’s Finals opener to open the three-game championship slate at 11 a.m.
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