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HOOPSTER: World's 3rd best, 56 years ago
By Henry Liao for philippinebasketball.ph (09/01/2010)
Believe it or not, the Philippines owns the best-ever
finish by an Asian country in World Basketball Championship history.
This astonishing feat came during the 2nd World games in
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1954 (October 22-November 5) when the Filipinos
gained the bronze medal. Only the United States (gold) and host Brazil
(silver) fared better than the Philippines.
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HOOPSTER: FIBA Rankings - A Hocus-Pocus Game?
By Henry Liao for philippinebasketball.ph (09/01/2010)
Four Asian countries are taking part in the 16th World
Basketball Championship in Turkey. They are two-time reigning FIBA-Asia
titlist Iran, China, Jordan and Lebanon.
Going into the WBC, China ranked No. 1 among Asians in
the FIBA ranking, taking the ninth spot overall. Iran was 21st, Lebanon
24th, Korea 27th, Qatar, 28th, Japan 32nd, Kazakhstan 36th, Jordan 38th,
Chinese-Taipei 42nd, India 52nd (tie), Syria 52nd (tie) and Kuwait 55th.
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 UAAP Round 1: No Real Surprises
By Joseph W. Buduan for philippinebasketball.ph (08/11/2010)
 Round
1 is over and the dust and smoke of battle are slowly clearing. After
56 grueling senior division games, the top-seeded teams are on top as
expected, while the rest of the board is looking about as projected before
the season got underway. In other words there were no real surprises at
the end of the first elimination round.
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La
Salle on a Roll
By Joseph W. Buduan for philippinebasketball.ph (08/03/2010)
 At
the start of the season, not too many of the so-called experts and pundits
gave the De La Salle University Green Archers much of a chance to make
some noise in the 73rd season of the UAAP basketball wars. Now at 4-2
as of this writing though, the Green Archers are making a lot of those
same experts look, well, pretty green. La Salle has seven rookies, four
sophomores and less than a handful of veterans on their current roster.
This is not the well-seasoned and powerhouse La Salle team of old that
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FEU
on Course in Season 73 Title Drive
By Joseph W. Buduan for philippinebasketball.ph (07/30/2010)
It began right there in the first game of the season: Far
Eastern University drew great games from their superstar pointguard Ryan
Roose Garcia, hotshot forward Paul Sanga and veteran center Aldrech Ramos
to beat reigning champion Ateneo De Manila 72 – 69. The last time FEU
beat Ateneo in their first encounter of the season was back in 2005, the
same year the Tamaraws last won the UAAP senior division basketball championship.
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Adamson:
This Could Be It
Ateneo:
Grand Slam Dreaming
Lasalle:
Climbing Back
FEU:
Now or Never
NU:
Getting Serious
UE:
Still Fighting
UP:
Getting It Back
UST:
Crouching Tiger
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Samahang Basketball ng Pilipinas
- Tournament of the Philippines 
Perpetual
Help: Building Up
Letran: Coming Around
JRU:
Could and Should
When the ordinary basketball fan takes a look at the last couple of years of Perpetual Help basketball, it might be difficult to imagine... 
Was
it really just the middle of the last decade that Letran was still a powerhouse in the NCAA? 
Jose
Rizal University has seen two seasons practically slip through their fingers. 
St Benilde: Rekindle the Flame
Arellano: Returning for More
San Beda: Regaining the Crown
It is sometimes a little difficult to believe that St Benilde is already among the ranks of NCAA basketball champions. 
Winding up in the top half of the standings and actually having a chance to crack the Final 4 in the Season 85 campaign... 
San Beda had a disappointing end to their Season 85 campaign. Looking forward to completing a rare and unprecedented 4-Peat... 
EAC: New Battles Ahead
Mapua: No Time like the Present
San Sebastian: Going for Back-to-Back Titles
Emilio Aguinaldo College certainly must have learned a thing or two in their maiden season last year in the NCAA. 
When
the Mapua Tech Cardinals last won an NCAA championship, their head coach and his assistants were still playing. 
- Fr. Martin Cup 
- National Basketball Association (NBA)
