1981 U-Tex Wranglers season

1981 U/Tex Wranglers season
Head coach	Glenn McDonald
Open Conference results Record 19–10 (.655) Place 3rd Playoff finish Semifinals Reinforced All Filipino results Record 15–9 (.625) Place 2nd Playoff finish Finals U/Tex Wranglers seasons 1980 1982

The 1981 U/Tex Wranglers season was the seventh season of the franchise in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).

Award

William "Bogs" Adornado received his third MVP plum, becoming the PBA's first three-time Most Valuable Player Awardee. Adornado won his first two during the league's first two seasons in 1975–1976 while playing for Crispa Redmanizers.

Summary

Former Boston Celtic Glenn McDonald, who won two titles with U/Tex as their import, became the new head coach of the Wranglers, replacing his former coach Tommy Manotoc, who transferred to San Miguel Beer. The Wranglers had a pair of 6-5 Francois Wise and 6-9 Darrell Allums as their imports for the Open Conference. The U/Tex Wranglers finish the first round of eliminations tied with Crispa on top with a 7-2 won-loss card, ^[1] they scored a similar number of victories in the second round to tie the San Miguel Beermen at first place in the standings after 18 games with 14 wins and 4 losses. Both teams were left out by traditional powerhouses Toyota and Crispa during the semifinal round. U/Tex placed third by winning their series over the beermen in five games.

U/Tex lost their first two games in the Reinforced Filipino Conference with John Kazmer as their import, but since the arrival of Leroy Jackson, the Wranglers went into a six-game winning streak and placed third behind Toyota and Crispa at the end of the elimination phase. The Wranglers continued its winning run in the round of six and was the first team to land one of the two finals berth during the semifinal round. ^[2] U/Tex lost to Crispa Redmanizers in four games in their best-of-five title series.

Roster

U/Tex Wranglers roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Name Height Weight DOB (YYYY–MM–DD) From F 5 Deles, Roy 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) San Beda College G 6 Pineda, Ricardo 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) Letran College G 7 Pineda, Manuel 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) Letran College F 8 Noblezada, Jaime 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) San Agustin F/C 9 Taguines, Jaime 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) Holy Angel University F/C 10 Martin, Jesusito 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) Jose Rizal College F 12 Pages, Reynaldo 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) La Salle G/F 13 Pribhdas, Danny 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) PCC G 14 Eng Beng, Lim 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) La Salle F/C 17 Regullano, David 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) Letran College F/C 18 Arce, Armando 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) G 21 Ortiz, Albert 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) State U G 22 Gaston, Matthew 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) Ateneo de Manila G/F 33 Adornado, Bogs 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) UST C 32 Allums, Darrell (I) 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m) UCLA F/C 6 Wise, Francois (I) 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) California State G/F 34 Kazmer, John (I) 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) California State G/F 4 Jackson, Leroy (I) 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) Cameron University	Head coach Glenn McDonald Assistant coach(es) Legend (C) Team captain (I) Import (DP) Unsigned draft pick (FA) Free agent (IN) Inactive (S) Suspended (R) Rookie Injured

References

1. U-Tex nips Crispa by 1
2. U-Tex earns final slot

External links

• www.pba-online.net