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The 2008 UAAP Season 71 ends! A six-year wait ends as Ateneo wins the UAAP Season 71 men's basketball championship last Thursday, September 25, 2008 after last winning in 2002.

The Eagles stopped their arch-rival De La Salle University Green Archers, 62-51 as their team captain Chris Tiu led the game.

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2008 UAAP Finals: Ateneo vs. La Salle Game 1 result

Ateneo wins the Game 1 of the UAAP Season 71 Championship. Rabeh Al-Hussaini lead Ateneo to a 69-61 victory over La Salle. He scored 31 points and grabbed 9 rebounds.

Game 1 is done, watch out for the Game 2 of the 2008 UAAP Season 71 Basketball Championship.

Ateneo vs. La Salle tickets

The game one of the UAAP Season 71 Championship Showdown between Ateneo and La Salle will be on Sunday, September 21, 2008 at The Big Dome!

But scalpers at the Araneta are also expected to proliferate. The NBI said that more people that are likely to turn to scalpers for tickets, even if the original selling price is doubled or even tripled.

A security guard of the Araneta Coliseum and five others were arrested last Sunday for “scalping” during the Final Four bout. Twenty-five tickets were confiscated from the scalpers.

Arrested were Jabin Brian Valsorable, security guard of the Big Dome, and a resident of barangay Bulihan, Famy, Laguna; Samuel Velasco, a resident of 305 Balayong, Malolos, Bulacan; Jerry Ysmael of Block 70-71, Ampalaya Street, Conception, Marikina City; and Rene Sioco of 2473 Carmacelli Street, Singalong, Manila.

Watch UAAP Season 71 Finals Ateneo vs. La Salle

It's green vs. blue! The college basketball's most bitter rivals face off! Watch UAAP Season 71 Finals Ateneo vs. La Salle on Sunday, September 21 at the Araneta Coliseum.

The most heated rivalry will come alive again -- the fourth time -- within a span of 10 years.

Ateneo and La Salle first faced each other in the UAAP finals in 1988 when the Eagles clawed the Archers to strike first blood and claim the championship. The games were then held at the Rizal Memorial Coliseum.

Come 2001, it was the Archers' turn as they defeated their rivals. By then the UAAP games were already being played at the Big Dome.

Ateneo then ended its 14-year title drought in 2002. At the losing end was nobody else but the Archers.

In 2007, the bitter rivals clashed once more for the college hoops finals. This time, the Archers made it sure that they would emerge victorious against the Loyola dribblers.

Watch UAAP Season 71 Basketball Tournament Live

The UAAP Season 71 is the 2008-2009 season of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines. It was opened July 5, 2008 at the Araneta Coliseum. Watch UAAP Season 71 Basketball Tournament Live the Araneta Coliseum, live telecast at Studio 23...

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