UST Growling Tigers’ Mo Tounkara throughout a UAAP Season 87 males’s basketball recreation towards La Salle Inexperienced Archers. –MARLO CUETO/INQUIRER.internet
College of Santo Tomas (UST) is planning to make a remaining attraction for Mo Tounkara’s eligibility for particular person awards within the UAAP Season 87 males’s basketball match, sources advised the Inquirer on Friday.
The transfer comes after the league introduced that it denied UST’s attraction for Tounkara to keep away from a one-game suspension robotically slapped on the beanpole middle from Mali after he was ejected within the Tigers’ 94-87 extra time loss to defending champion La Salle final Wednesday.
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Which means Tounkara will miss UST’s first dwelling recreation this season.
The Tigers battle Ateneo’s Blue Eagles at their dwelling courtroom, the UST Quadricentennial Pavilion at midday on Saturday, hours earlier than the Archers take the courtroom towards the Adamson Falcons at 3:30 p.m.
Sources mentioned UST officers are working to maintain Tounkara, who’s averaging 15.1 factors and eight.6 rebounds per recreation, eligible for the person awards on the finish of the season. Beneath UAAP guidelines, gamers ejected from a recreation are now not eligible to win these awards. Tounkara acquired two technical fouls—each for taunting—within the recreation towards La Salle, which meant computerized ejection.
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UST despatched its attraction to the Board of Managing Administrators.
Ejected for taunting
The UST massive was ejected after taunting Mike Phillips, receiving his second technical foul on the 3:38 mark of the fourth quarter.
His first technical was slapped within the first quarter with 5:41 left after flexing his muscle mass in entrance of La Salle’s Henry Agunanne—an act labeled as “taunting” underneath Fiba guidelines.
After the loss, Tounkara admitted that feelings acquired the higher of him, vowing to be higher subsequent time.
“Man, I used to be an excessive amount of within the recreation. Typically I’ve to regulate myself. I believe, if I have been there, we might’ve had a a lot [better] probability to win this recreation. I want to regulate myself generally. I acquired an excessive amount of within the recreation,” he mentioned.
Dropping their first two video games within the first spherical, UST seeks to bounce again towards Ateneo in entrance of its dwelling crowd as Forthsky Padrigao burdened that “they should win” with a 4-5 report to maintain their Last 4 hopes on monitor.
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