How do you win a UAAP Men’s Basketball crown?

MANILA, Philippines – The UST Growling Tigers and DLSU Green Archers will face off in a winner-takes-all Finals match-up.

What does it take to win the championship?
Bea Cupin asks the teams’ head coaches.

These men say it all boils down to the right mindset.
The Tigers bring with them a wealth of experience.
This is Jarencio’s 3rd Finals appearance in 8 seasons and the squad’s second straight appearance in the UAAP Finals.
Fresh off a Game 2 win are the Green Archers.
Absent from the UAAP Finals for a while now, this is the team’s first appearance since 2008.
Newbie head coach Juno Sauler came in only 3 weeks before the season started.
Even after losing Game 1, morale was high.

JUNO SAULER
DLSU GREEN ARCHERS COACH
We lost the game but the season wasn’t over, we just focused on the next game and tried to work on the things that we needed to work on.

The Tigers and the Archers have been through hell to get to the finals.
The Tigers knocked-out the Ateneo Blue Eagles to secure the last slot in the Final Four.
Then they defeated top-seeded National University twice in a row.
Jarencio says the week-long break between Game 2 and 3 is a huge respite.
He says in Filipino, “The one week break is a big deal because we’ve been through one knockout game after another.”
Prior to Game 1 of the Finals, La Salle went on a wild winning streak sweeping the second round and booting out the FEU Tamaraws in a best-of-three series.

JUNO SAULER
DLSU GREEN ARCHERS HEAD COACH
I can accept that there are other teams that are probably taller, stronger, more athletic than us but I just want us to be in a very stable and mental stage wherein we can say that we’re the smartest.

History will be made on Saturday.
Will La Salle beat an experienced UST squad, ending the university’s drought?
Or will UST go on to break another UAAP record and be the first 4th seed to clinch the crown?
Bea Cupin, Rappler, Manila. – Rappler.com