By Jess Garcia Jr.

The same number of teams will compete in this year’s annual Private Schools Athletic Association (PRISAA) Pangasinan-Dagupan City Inter-Collegiate Basketball Invitational Championship but with a number of changes.

AMA, STI and Luna College did not enter this year’s tourney and the three educational institutions will be replaced by Collegio de Dagupan, Pangasinan 1 composed of Alaminos and Lingayen dribblers and Pangasinan 2 to be represented by Lyceum Northwestern University (LNU) of Urdaneta City.

The other teams competing are LNU Dagupan City, AIE, PIMSAT, PAMMA, and PSU. The ten teams will be divided into two brackets.

Bracket A will be composed of UPang, UL, LNU Dagupan and AIE teams, while bracket B will be a group of Collegio de Dagupan, PIMSAT, PAMMA, PSU, Pangasinan 1 and 2 and LNU Urdaneta.

According to Seato Gonomil, chair of the league’s management committee, three games will be played on Mondays and Thursdays every week, and the tournament will be played by a single-round-robin series with the top six teams advancing to the quarter finals.

The two top squads will automatically enter the semis and have to wait for the winners of the quarterfinal matches of the four teams, the third, fourth, fifth and the sixth teams that passed the elims.

The best two winners in the semis will clash in the best-of-three series finals while the third and the fourth placers in the semis fight for third place in a knockout game.

According to tournament’s project director Art Tangco, opening ceremony starts at 8:30 a.m. with Commission on Higher Education (CHED) Region 1 Director Evelyn Pascua as the ‘guest of honor and speaker.’

Pairings of the first day hostilities will be known on the opening day by draw lots or by ‘presidential choice’ headed by Atty. Gonzalo Duque, region 1 and national president of PRISAA.

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