Jude P. Roque
These past few seasons, National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) schools made strides in their stature in the pecking order of collegiate basketball squads in the country. The NCAA competition has clearly gone up notches higher in the last five years or so, with so many previously unknown talents turning out to be rising stars in local hoops, like Scottie Thompson, Jio Jalalon, Sidney Onwubere and Jonathan Grey to name a few.