No plans to change basketball season's format

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has no plans of changing the format for the basketball tournament in the upcoming 90th season amidst the clamor to shorten the league after games stretched up to November last year.

Calls for amending the basketball season’s double-round elimination format surfaced last year after it took almost five months before San Beda was crowned champions.

Dr. Vincent Fabella, president of the season host Jose Rizal University, said what needs to be done is to find ways of improving the schedule of all the games.

"As far as the format is concerned there will be no changes amid clamor to shorten the league after last season's unprecedented record of the basketball season reaching as far as the second semester in November,” said Fabella, who takes over the NCAA presidency and Policy Board chairmanship.

"There were suggestions to split the 10 teams into two groups but we will stick to our old format, which is a double-round robin tournament.

JRU athletic director and new Management Committee chairman Paul Supan added that they will make sure that they will not prolong the basketball season this year.

"The reason why it ended up that long as we gave way to the [International basketball Federation] Asia Championship, which cost us 11 days of no games,” Supan said.

"And that is not counting the typhoons and bad weather that forced us to also suspend games to protect our students. But we're still discussing ways to improve our scheduling," he added.

Meanwhile, former Philippine Basketball Association player Bai Cristobal was tapped by JRU as this season’s basketball commissioner.

"Aside from being a former basketball player and coach, he has also experience in officiating being a part of the commissioner's office that served the league two years ago," said Fabella.

The NCA opens its 90th season on June 28 with the theme "Today's Heroes, Tomorrow's Legends. NCAA Season @90: We Make History.”

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