LIVE: UAAP Season 87 basketball Finals Game 2

UAAP Season 87 basketball Finals schedule

December 11, Wednesday – Game 1 – Mall of Asia Arena

• 1pm — women’s awarding Ceremony
• 1:30pm – UST Growling Tigresses vs NU Lady Bulldogs
• 5pm –  men’s awarding Ceremony
• 5:30pm –UP Fightings Maroons vs. La Salle Green Archers

LIVE UPDATES: UST Growling Tigresses vs NU Lady Bulldogs (UAAP Finals Game 2)

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The NU Lady Bulldogs 🐾 are on the brink of reclaiming the coveted crown! However, the defending champs, the UST Growling Tigresses 🐯 are determined to retain their title and push the series to the limit in the #UAAPSeason87 Women’s Basketball Finals! pic.twitter.com/hHtRCsgOod

— The UAAP (@uaap_official) December 10, 2024

La Salle coach Topex Robinson has always preached culture, love and sticking together since he was given the keys to the Green Archers program last year, where they ended a six-year championship drought for one of the esteemed programs in the UAAP.

And it seems like the Archers will continue to live by it even after University of the Philippines pushed the defending champions’ backs against the wall with a 73-65 victory in Game 1 of the Season 87 men’s basketball finals on Sunday.

“The good thing about the team in the dugout was nobody was blaming nobody,” Robinson said as the Maroons defeated them for the first time this season. “We’ve gone this far because of how we really became a united front and we will not let any negativity get in our way.”

Both University of the Philippines (UP) and La Salle talked down Game 1 of their UAAP Season 87 men’s basketball tournament title duel like the result mattered less than what it did on paper.

“Game 1 doesn’t win a championship,” UP coach Goldwin Monteverde said after the Maroons’ 73-65 victory in Sunday’s series opener. “[Part of] the process [toward getting a championship] is to get the Game 1. And [we’ve done that] so we’ll just have to focus on what we need to improve in terms of [our] lapses [during] the game.”

“The only thing that I told the team [was] there’s a reason why this is a series: you don’t win a championship by winning one game, you need two games,” La Salle coach Topex Robinson said after the Archers lost to the Maroons for the first time since, coincidentally, Game 1 of their title bout last season.

MANILA, Philippines—A year ago, La Salle completed a UAAP Finals comeback against University of the Philippines after losing Game 1.

On Sunday, the Green Archers found themselves facing the same predicament against familiar rivals following a 73-65 loss in the UAAP Season 87 men’s basketball Finals opener.

However, to pull off another rally, La Salle will need immense belief, according to Mike Phillips.

MANILA, Philippines—For coach Topex Robinson, preparing La Salle for Game 2 of the UAAP Season 87 Finals against University of the Philippines is like clockwork and keeping the team’s morale right where he wants it to be following a tough loss is the real challenge.

“The only thing I told the team [after the loss] was, this is the reason why this is a series,” said Robinson after the 73-65 loss in Game 1 on Sunday at Araneta Coliseum.

“The players in the dugout just reminded each other to be positive and try to learn from this experience. That’s a tough team that we played against. They’re one of the best so we just have to slug it out with them on Wednesday.”

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