FAITH PROPELS DLSU TO THRONE

God Did.

- By JOAQUIN HENSON

These were the two words that La Salle's Green Archers cried out when skipper Mike Phillips asked who brought the UAAP men's basketball championship back to Taft in a huddle after clinching the best-of-three Finals via a pulsating 80-72 decision before 24,339 fans at the Smart Araneta Coliseum last Wednesday."God is the champion, not us," said Phillips who delivered 25 points and 18 rebounds in his final collegiate appearance. “He took us to the top of the mountain. We didn’t win, God did. We're like an arrow pointing upwards.”

Throughout a harrowing season, the Archers endured injuries, suspensions to key players, doubts from doomsayers and a pair of one-point second round setbacks to teams that didn’t even make the Final Four. Faith kept La Salle’s Animo Spirit alive and took the Archers home.