NU wants strong end to UAAP first round campaign: ‘We need to start winning’

The UAAP Season 81 men’s basketball tournament is nearing its midpoint and some teams are anxious to start tacking on some wins.

And one of those teams is National University, which has only managed a win against four losses to stay in a tie for the eighth spot with University of the East and University of Santo Tomas.

NU head coach Jamike Jarin and he knows that his team has to start winning games if they want to make a serious run for a Final Four berth.

“We need to start winning, we’re 1-4 right now and we have to start winning in order for us to make a good push to the end of the first round and the start of the second round,” said Jarin after their 73-68 loss to Far Eastern University Wednesday at Mall of Asia Arena.

The closest team to the three teams in the bottom is University of the Philippines, which is one game ahead sits at the fifth spot of the standings with a 2-3 record.

NU can end the first round with two wins in its remaining games against, as if by fate, the Fighting Maroons and the Red Warriors.

The Bulldogs can enter the second round with a more respectable 3-4 card if they play their chips right and the other teams start to falter.

“We got two more games and we’re actually not worried or I’m not really thinking much of the situations the other teams have,” said Jarin. “We just have to focus on what’s in store in front of us.”