MIBC

Malaysia won their last game of the tournament to end this year's MIBC with a 4-1 record for a second-place finish, defeating the Philippines Pharex Bidang Generix team 91-79.

Plagued by inconsistent shooting, our girls were unable to overcome the Haishan High School team. The final score of the game was 93-67 in favour of Haishan High School.

It was a good night for the Malaysian teams as both the men and women came back from behind to win their respective games. Our boys roared back from a deficit that was a large as 16 at one point to clinch their third win of the tournament, beating the Chosun University team 97-83.

The Malaysia Women's team managed to hold off the Singapore Home United Basketball Club in a nail-biting overtime thriller to win 73-68.

Our boys suffered their first defeat of the tournament against the Pure Youth Construction team. Coach Goh had commented the day before that our boys only had a 20% chance of victory.

As Head Coach Tan See Wah mentioned, there will always be the pressure of expectation when playing in front of a home crowd. Perhaps that was what plagued our girls tonight.