Unpredictable UAAP Season 89

Sports games in general are always more exciting when no one knows the final outcome. Basketball is not an exception. While dominance is an art worth its glory, parity is pure entertainment.  Both UAAP Season 89 and NCAA Season 102 are exciting and unpredictable. No team can claim to be the clear favorites, since some of the preseason dominators have faltered. It’s more evident in the UAAP as title favorites have both stumbled out of the gate. UAAP Perennial Finalists fold The last three UAAP Finals became the new rivalry of the UP Fighting Maroons and La Salle Green Archers. UP was involved in the last five Finals, six of the last seven.  These two schools have dominated by stockpiling talent, any which way possible. Rules on eligibility have been modified to derail these two raging locomotives, but they were hardly hampered. After taking transferees from FEU, UE, and even Ateneo, and even each other. They also acquired players from the NCAA. This is why they remained favorites despite bucking huge losses from last season’s finals runs.  Apparently, more is not always better. After initial victories, they fell to teams with more cohesive units - FEU beat them in succession, and NU broke UP’s short...