Jude P. Roque

Lyceum of the Philippines University (LPU) did the unthinkable last Thursday when its varsity basketball men’s squad called the Pirates completed an 18-0 sweep of the National Collegiate Athletics Association’s (NCAA) elimination round at the expense of defending champions San Beda College (SBC) Red Lions via a 107-105 double overtime thriller. Since the Final Four format was introduced in 1998, LPU became only the second member school to sweep the elims, after SBC did the trick in 2010.

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