LIVE: UAAP basketball Finals Game 3 – La Salle vs UP
UAAP Season 87 basketball Finals Game 3 schedule
December 15, Sunday Smart Araneta Coliseum
- 1pm – NU Lady Bulldogs vs UST Growling Tigresses
- 5:30pm – La Salle Green Archers vs UP Fightings Maroons
LIVE UPDATES: NU Lady Bulldogs vs UST Growling Tigresses (UAAP women’s Finals Game 3)
- END OF 3RD: NU 64, UST 49. The Lady Bulldogs dominated the third quarter, 27-12.
- Kent Pastrana and Karylle Sierba cut NU’s lead down to seven, 45-52, with 5:20 left in Q3.
- Make that a 10-0 run with Pagdulagan scoring five. NU with a 48-38 lead.
- NU with an 8-0 run to start the second half, 46-38.
- Halftime stats UAAP Finals Game 3: Karylle Sierba leads UST with 10 points, Cielo Pagdulagan with 9 for NU.
- HALFTIME of the UAAP women’s Finals Game 3: NU 38, UST 38.
- Sierba sinks a trey to tie the game at 34-all with 3 mins left in the first half.
- 5-0 run by Pagdulagan. NU holds a 29-26 lead midway through the second quarter.
- END OF 1ST: UST 17, NU 17. Tigresses had five triples in the opening quarter.
- 8-3 start for UST in women’s basketball Finals Game 3.
UP, La Salle Down to one last battle in the UAAP Finals
In defending the crucial misses of Francis Lopez during the crucial moments of Game 2 of the UAAP men’s basketball Finals, University of the Philippines (UP) coach Goldwin Monteverde said basketball had always been a game about making shots.
“Basketball is like that. [Shots are] either missed or made,” Monteverde said.
Fittingly, the last remaining statistic that has held true, as far as being a key marker for the outcomes of games between UP and defending champion La Salle is concerned, is the one that deals with makes and misses.
UAAP Finals: Playing through nightmare, La Salle ends up with dream Game 2 win
Kevin Quiambao reacts after a crucial play in Game 2 of the UAAP Season 87 men’s basketball Finals against UP Fighting Maroons. –MARLO CUETO/INQUIRER.net
There were only two ways Game 2 of the UAAP Season 87 men’s basketball Finals could have ended for La Salle coach Topex Robinson.
“It’s every coach’s dream or nightmare,” he said.
No middle ground. No gray area.
And until late in the fourth quarter, the Archers looked like a team eager to wake up from a bad dream. Until Kevin Quiambao took over.
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