AN unbeaten run so far this season is not enough to make University of the Philippines feel good about its chances to reach the Promised Land anew.
Rookie Francis Lopez maintained the Fighting Maroons still have a lot of polishing to do to keep their winning run going.
“You know, I just wanna say that the job is not finished for us. We have a lot to work on. This was just our third game as coach (Goldwin Monteverde) is saying that it is just the start of the season,” Lopez said after UP whipped National University 78-60 last Saturday.
“We were really happy about today’s game, but we are moving on to the next game and hopefully we can get that win,” he added.
The Maroons stake their unscathed mark when they take on the Far Eastern University Tamaraws today in the 86th UAAP basketball tournament at the Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay.
The curtain-raiser is set at 11 in the morning.
FEU remained winless under new coach Denok Miranda after it squandered a 14-point fourth quarter lead in a 58-65 defeat to University of the East last Saturday.
The Red Warriors, one of the four teams sporting 2-1 records, hope to carry the momentum of the come-from-behind win against the Tamaraws in their 1 p.m. showdown with defending champion Ateneo.
“We practice really hard every day. Coach Jack (Santiago) and the whole staff do their part every practice. We stayed as a unit and what coach Jack said, we stuck to the system and the system worked,” Gjerard Wilson, who presided over UE’s stirring comeback in the payoff period, said.
