LIVE: UAAP Season 87 basketball October 19

UAAP Season 87 men’s basketball schedule

October 19, Saturday – UST Quadricentennial Pavilion

UAAP men’s basketball: Ateneo vs UST, Adamson vs La Salle

UAAP women’s basketball: Ateneo vs UST

UAAP: Kent Pastrana struggles but still leads UST past Ateneo

Kent Pastrana UST Tigresses UAAP Season 87

UST’s Kent Pastrana goes for a layup against Ateneo in UAAP Season 87 women’s basketball tournament.–UAAP PHOTO

MANILA, Philippines — Kent Pastrana overcame her home game struggles, delivering the baskets when it mattered most to lead the University of Santo Tomas past Ateneo, 77-73, in the UAAP Season 87 women’s basketball tournament on Saturday at UST’s Quadricentennial Pavilion.

Pastrana was a marked player in the first three quarters but got her act together in the fourth, unleashing a personal 7-2 run to give UST a 10-point cushion, 69-59, with 4:09 remaining.

UAAP: UST plans Mo Tounkara awards appeal

UST Growling Tigers’ Mo Tounkara during a UAAP Season 87 men’s basketball game against La Salle Green Archers. –MARLO CUETO/INQUIRER.net

University of Santo Tomas (UST) is planning to make a final appeal for Mo Tounkara’s eligibility for individual awards in the UAAP Season 87 men’s basketball tournament, sources told the Inquirer on Friday.

The move comes after the league announced that it denied UST’s appeal for Tounkara to avoid a one-game suspension automatically slapped on the beanpole center from Mali after he was ejected in the Tigers’ 94-87 overtime loss to defending champion La Salle last Wednesday.

Read more...