Ateneo secures Tab Baldwin as Blue Eagles coach till 2028

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Following a historic plummet to final place and much away from UAAP males’s basketball Closing 4 rivalry, the Ateneo Blue Eagles safe an enormous rebuilding cornerstone with four-time champion coach Tab Baldwin till Season 91

MANILA, Philippines – The architect of a UAAP dynasty stays in Katipunan as Ateneo signed four-time males’s basketball coach Tab Baldwin to a three-year extension till 2028, in line with a college assertion on Saturday, September 20.

The announcement got here hours earlier than the Blue Eagles had been set to take the courtroom on the UST Quadricentennial Pavilion towards the FEU Tamaraws to kickstart their UAAP Season 88 marketing campaign.

“Thanks for constructing such a robust program [over] the previous years,” mentioned college president Fr. Roberto Yap at a conventional crew send-off mass. “And we’re blissful you might be renewing with us.”

“With you guys, I will be part of rebuilding this program — bringing glory and success again to the hill,” Baldwin added.

The American-Kiwi mentor — chargeable for main the Blue Eagles to a title three-peat from 2017 to 2019, then once more in 2022 — oversaw a rebuild of types in Season 86 and 87 following the respective exits of MVP Ange Kouame and star guards Dave Ildefonso and Forthsky Padrigao, amongst different departures.

After barely making the Closing 4 in 2023, Baldwin’s Blue Eagles plummeted to eighth and final place in 2024, marking the primary time the mighty basketball program fell out of playoff rivalry since UAAP Season 76 in 2013.

Now tasked to assist form a brand new crew id past rising star Jared Bahay, Baldwin locks again into work as rumors of his exit are lastly laid to relaxation. – Rappler.com