Ateneo Blue Eagles’ coach Tab Baldwin throughout Sport 2 of the UAAP Season 85 males’s basketball finals. –UAAP PHOTO
MANILA, Philippines — Defending UAAP champion Ateneo will beef up the 2023 Filoil EcoOil Preseason Cup, which ideas off on Could 6 at Filoil EcoOil Centre in San Juan.
After skipping the preseason match final yr on account of their abroad camps, the Blue Eagles will see motion in the summertime tilt, becoming a member of NCAA champion Letran.
Ateneo coach Tab Baldwin had a busy offseason, securing the commitments of UPIS star Kobe Demisana and Raffy Celis and Michael Asoro from Sacred Coronary heart College-Ateneo de Cebu in addition to Gilas Youth standouts Mason Amos and Kyle Gamber.
Baldwin and the Blue Eagles redeemed themselves in Season 85 with graduating gamers Ange Kouame, Dave Ildefonso, and BJ Andrade main the best way.
Nationwide College, which dominated the 2022 version with John Lloyd Clemente bagging the MVP award, can even be part of the famed preseason league’s return.
New coaches Topex Robinson of La Salle, Denok Miranda of Far Japanese College, Chico Manabat of Arellano, John Kallos of San Sebastian, and Jerson Cabiltes of Emilio Aguinaldo School shall be examined within the preseason.
A coaches’ assembly is ready for subsequent week to finalize the match format and the collaborating squads.
League chairman Rey Gamboa, commissioners Joe Lipa and Bert dela Rosa, match director Bennett Palad, media head, and guide Virgil Villavicencio, and advertising and marketing and finance head Diana Layug will oversee the sixteenth version of the Filoil tourney.
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