LOOKBACK: How a locker room session sparked UP’s run

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In a recent Zoom session, the UP Maroons recall how one emotional halftime locker room episode proved to be the turning point of their historic campaign.

The eve of October 21, 2018 is marked as an important date in the sports lore of the University of the Philippines.

At halftime, the score marked 44-41, in favor of the Red Warriors. They were no pushovers – not with a super-scorer like Alvin Pasaol – but UE entered the game at 1-7 and carrying a three-game losing streak, while UP – a team with ambitious hopes – stood at 3-5, and in danger of elimination.But to one man, it would also mean the end to something even more important.

The team improved each succeeding year by building steady management, gathering needed sponsorships, attaining quality recruits, and finding an invested head coach, to the point that breaking the university’s 21-year Final Four drought seemed realistic 4 years after sparks flew up to the sky at the Sunken Garden.

UP opened its second round with a blowout defeat against defending champion Ateneo, putting what was once the team’s realistic chance to make the Final Four in peril.

 

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