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June 24, 2013 game results

LPU Pirates wins over San Beda Red Lions -  70 - 66
JRU Bombers beats MIT Cardinals - 83 - 72

The 89th Season of NCAA Philippines has started last started. Defending Champions San Beda Red Lions faced off with host school College of St. Benilde Blazers in the first game of the season. Followed by 1st runner up Colegio de San Juan de Letran Knights facing off with San Sebastian Stags.

The San Beda Red Lions was off with a rough start barely grabbing a win against the Blazers. With only 4.7 seconds the Lions were down with one point. Arthur Dela Cruz sealed the deal scoring the game winning basket with a pass from Rome Dela Rosa.

On the second game, CSJL knights missing the services of their ace guard Kevin Alas and under the leadership of their new coach Caloy Gracia managed to win against the San Sebastian Stags. Filling the  void that Kevin Alas left is Raymond Almazan who scored 15 points and gathered 20 rebounds. By the end of the game score was tagged at 74 - 69


This is the Team Standing as of June 22, 2013

With only a few games left until the NCAA Final four, The San Sebastian Stags cling on to maintain their spotless record. But it won't be an easy road ahead for the Stags. They yet have to face defending champion San Beda Red Lions and number two seed Letran Knights. The Stags is set to face the Knights on September 30, the Pirates on Oct 5, 2011 and the Lions on October 12

The Sebastian Stags is just coming off a 3 point win against the MIT Cardinals last September 16. Are they showing signs of exhaustion or has the Cardinals improve significantly? I guess we will just have to see if the Stags could complete the sweep the way San Beda did last year. If they do become successful, they would enjoy a good rest while waiting for the 2nd to 4th seed to battle it out for the right to go to the finals. Any team who is undefeated after the two elimination rounds would still have to meet the challenger on a best of three championship series. A few years back the first seed would enjoy a twice to beat advantage in the Finals.

The defending champions San Beda Red Lions is showing signs of exhaustion as the Bombers surprised everyone by beating the Lions last September 14 with and score of 76 to 65 favoring JRU. Losing Sudan Daniels due to injury this season is taxing to San Beda's bid to retain the title this year. San Beda is yet to meet College of St. Benilde on September 28, Letran on October 7 and San Sebastian on October 12.

Letran has been doing great this season. Only losing 2 games during the first round against San Beda and Sebastian. With only 3 games left this season, Letran could end up with a 14-4 win loss standing if they fail to win against the Stags and Lions.  Letran is set to face the stags on September 30, the Blazers on October 3 and the Lions on October 7.