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...