Samahang Basketball ng Pilipinas (SBP) executive director Renauld
“Sonny” Barrios will be the special guest when SEAOIL Elite League
national finals kicks off today at the West Negros University Gym in
Bacolod City.
The opening ceremony is set at 1:30 pm but games will start as early
as 8:30 am in the three-day event is sponsored by SEAOIL Philippines,
Burlington, Freego Jeans and Molten under the SBP.
Barrios earlier cited the gains of the grassroots program that aims to
come up with a wholistic approach in identifying, preparing and
developing young players for youth national teams and eve for varsity
leagues.
Cage powerhouses Cebu, Davao and Bacolod are early favorites although
it is a toss-up among all 16 teams composed of two from South Luzon,
three from North Luzon, six from Visayas and five from Mindanao. The
top two teams after the one round elimination will to the finals for a
winner-take-all match.
“It will be a very interesting tournament as these teams represent the
best for their regions and for the 14-16 years old age category. If
they do well, these players may be future stars of Philippine
basketball,”said Altamirano, hose said that the players and the
coaches were trained using a unique module exclusive only to the
league.
The teams are as follows: South Luzon (San Mig Coffee Cavite and B-Meg
Lucena), North Luzon (Magnolia Fresh Chicken Bulacan, Magnolia Ice
Cream La Union, Star Margarine Olongapo), Visayas (Star Margarine
Dumaguete, Purefoods TJ Cebu and Bacolod, San Mig Coffee Bacolod,
Magnolia Ice Cream Iloilo and B-MEG Ormoc) and Mindanao (Star
Margarine Zamboanga, Magnolia Ice Cream Gen San, Purefoods TJ Davao,
Monterey Meatshop CDO and San Mig Coffee Iligan).
Petroleum company SEAOIL Philippines is the chief backer of SEAOIL
Elite League, also known as the National Basketball Training Center
(NBTC) Elite League or NBTC Elite League, composed of 168 teams made
up of 3,024 players and 336 coaches.PR
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