Didnt really get the chance to see the NCAA games during the opening (since I really am more of a UAAP kind of guy) and there isn’t a lot of in depth information about the games, but just based on the newspaper articles and the scorelines, here are some early thoughts…
San Beda still looks like a beast this year. I think that as long as Sam Ekwe, Pong Escobal and Ogie Menor are there, this team is going to be breezing past the league. They trashed Mapua – a team that reached the final four last year – 85-56 in the first game of the season. They just make it look too easy.
Their rivals from last season, Letran, had an impressive start as well, knocking off JRU by double-digits. Definitely too early to tell, but I think it’s going to be a two-horse race this year between these two teams. The other games were all closer, with CSB nipping PCU (with a surprisingly unproductive showing from Harbour Centre’s Beau Belga) and Perpetual beating SSC-R.
No doubt, the defending champs made a pretty strong statement with that game, though.
