For Ateneo de Manila University head coach Tab Baldwin, it’s good to be again on high.
The Blue Eagles received over University of the Philippines, 75-68, in Game 3 of the UAAP Season 85 Finals on Monday to reclaim the boys’s basketball crown.
“Obviously, it’s very welcome to be back on top,” Baldwin mentioned in the course of the post-game convention.
“I don’t want to say it was a surprise but I think this team had to work harder than previous versions of Blue Eagle champions,” the four-time UAAP champion coach mentioned. “[A] lot of people doubted these guys and I think there were times that it was kinda easy to doubt them.”
For Baldwin, their championship was someway towards all odds.
“A lot of things that happened this year that kinda flew below the radar with this team. It really made the championship one that was against all odds,”
“It wasn’t just the fact that UP was good because UP were the defending champions. That’s true and we know that and they came back with a virtually intact roster. When you’ve got defending champions with an intact roster, they’re hard to knock off,” he added.
With the chip of their hand now after a hard-fought three-game collection, the Blue Eagles celebrated proper after and even doused Baldwin with a splash in the course of the post-game convention.
The gamers stormed Coach Tab Baldwin in the course of the post-game convention and it was a splash! #UAAPSeason85 @gmasportsph pic.twitter.com/9O1IE0eyig
— JK Carandang (@jk_carandang) December 19, 2022
The Blue Eagles made positive to have coach Tab be part of the celebration…within the post-game presser ???? @gmasportsph pic.twitter.com/91AZe4VUhz
— Bea Micaller (@beamicallerrr) December 19, 2022
This is Ateneo’s fourth title within the final 5 males’s basketball seasons. —KG, GMA Integrated News
