Zavier Lucero, the University of the Philippines’s (UP) blue chip recruit from Cal State Maritime Academy, is largely responsible for the Fighting Maroons’ runaway performance in the ongoing UAAP men’s basketball tournament.
ZAVIER LUCERO, the University of the Philippines’s blue chip recruit from Cal State Maritime Academy, is largely responsible for the Fighting Maroons’ runaway performance in the ongoing University Athletic Association of the Philippines men’s basketball tournament.
Lucero is here on his own. His immediate family is in the States and he has planted himself solidly within the campus community in the mini-forest of UP Diliman. He is growing lushly there.Philstar.com True. The UP crowd—a sea of Maroon that pulsates and sways and puts its arms together to clap rhythmically to its iconic yell of U-ni-ber-si-dad ng Pi-li-pi-nas—can produce one of the strongest reverberations in playing arenas.
It wasn’t always like that. Had Zavier Lucero been born earlier and had been asked to play for UP, maybe he wouldn’t have. “The UP Crowd” was an oxymoron, because there was none. So the crowd stayed away. Until it got worse. Two 0-14 seasons put UP in the pits, crushing Maroon Pride like nothing else.
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