Ateneo takes down UP to reclaim UAAP basketball crown

Ateneo takes down UP to reclaim UAAP basketball crown

Ateneo takes down UP to reclaim UAAP basketball crown

The males’s basketball crown will return to Katipunan.

Ateneo de Manila University on Monday took down University of the Philippines, 75-68, in Game 3 of the UAAP Season 85 Finals to reclaim the boys’s basketball crown.

The Blue Eagles ended the elimination spherical on the prime spot with an 11-3 report and defeated Adamson University within the semis. 

Ateneo misplaced to UP, 72-66, in Game 1 of the best-of-three finals, earlier than dismantling the Fighting Maroons, 65-55, in Game 2.

Prior to UP’s championship final season, Ateneo gained the title for 3 straight seasons (2017, 2018, 2019). 

This can be Ateneo’s twelfth total title since transferring to the UAAP in 1978.

—JMB, GMA Integrated News