Butiki Bullets: Wednesday October 14

• San Beda clinched the top spot in the NCAA after a second win over the San Sebastian Stags. More bad news for the Stags? Aside from losing consecutive games for the first time this season and drawing the very tough JRU Heavy Bombers in the Final Four, they might have to play one game without leading MVP candidate Jimbo Aquino who will likely be suspended for throwing a punch at San Beda's Jake Pascual in the game earlier.

• Early thoughts on the PBA season. Alaska is looking good. They struggled at the beginning of their game against Barako Bull, but were impressive as they closed out with a 16-point win behind a triple-double from Willie Miller. San Miguel, meanwhile, has plenty of chemistry kinks to work out. They look a long way from the team that won the Fiesta Conference last season. Gabe Freeman (import), Jay Washington (injured) and Marc Pingris (trade) are out and Arwind Santos, Denok Miranda, Danny Seigle and Lordy Tugade are in. Also, Samigue Eman looks like he's finally cracked the rotation. Meanwhile, Ronald Tubid is still Ronald Tubid. He drew flagrant fouls on two separate instances in the Ginebra win over the Beermen.

• Caught some more ABL action as the Brunei Barracudas faced the KL Dragons. It was nice seeing Don Camaso, Kiko Adriano and Leo Avenido in action again. All three are imports for the Barracudas, who won 94-76.

• Smart Gilas gets its first piece of real PBA action of Friday as they take on the Burger King Whoppers at 2:30 pm.