UP’s Malick Diouf.–MARLO CUETO/INQUIRER.internet
MANILA, Philippines–College of the Philippines stood unscathed above the remaining within the UAAP Season 86 males’s and girls’s basketball tournaments.
UP’s overseas student-athletes Malick Diouf and Favour Onoh laid the unassailable foundations of the Preventing Maroons’ good 3-0 begins of their respective divisions.
Diouf, the reigning males’s basketball Most Precious Participant, got here out swinging with a three-game common of 17 factors, 15.3 rebounds, 2.7 blocks, and 1.3 assists to start the Preventing Maroons’ revenge tour from their Season 85 runner-up end.
Such staggering numbers earned Diouf the primary Collegiate Press Corps UAAP males’s Participant of the Week for the interval September 30 to October 8.
The Senegalese middle, who tallied three consecutive double-doubles to maintain his workforce on prime, was unanimously voted for the lads’s weekly nod over La Salle’s Kevin Quiambao, UE’s Valuable Momowei, NU’s Kean Baclaan, and Adamson’s Ced Manzano.
Nonetheless, the graduating Diouf is locked in on being a dependable workforce participant for the Maroons quite than receiving any particular person quotation.
“I’m not right here for particular person awards. I simply wanna play. I’m simply right here to play and assist my workforce. Everyone (within the league) desires to enhance so (the MVP award) is a bonus,” stated Diouf.
In ladies’s basketball, one other State U overseas student-athlete in Onoh was on a roll for the Maroons en path to a positive place atop the workforce standings with UST.
Averaging 11.3 factors, 13 rebounds, 3.3 steals, and a couple of.3 blocks, Onoh’s breakthrough show in UP’s first win in 12 years towards eight-peat-seeking NU was the cherry on prime of a dream begin for the maroon shirts.
The Nigerian middle had her finest recreation of the season within the face of an esteemed champion facet with 18 factors and 15 boards, incomes her the Collegiate Press Corps’ first-ever UAAP Ladies’s Participant of the Week quotation.
Onoh earned the school scribes’ ladies’s weekly plum over her UP teammate Christie Bariquit, UST’s Kent Pastrana, and Ateneo’s Kacey Dela Rosa.
Proving to be a formidable power on each ends of the ground, Onoh is thrilled to see the fruits of her labor in full impact to kickstart a promising marketing campaign for the Maroons to this point.
“I’m a lot enthusiastic about my recreation as a result of I actually need to help my workforce and we need to win. We labored exhausting from (the day) I arrived within the Philippines, particularly for this season,” Onoh shared.
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Each UP squads will bat for a fourth consecutive victory in as many video games towards FEU on Oct. 11 on the Mall of Asia Enviornment (males’s) and Adamson Health club (ladies’s).