For the second straight year, University of Santo Tomas and National University will battle for women’s basketball supremacy in the best-of-three UAAP Season 87 championship series. Defending champion UST was the last women’s team standing in the stepladder semifinals after staving off a gritty Adamson side,

University of Santo Tomas completed a season sweep of Adamson University with a 71-59 victory in the knockout stepladder semifinal of the UAAP Season 87 women’s basketball tournament.

Defending champion University of Santo Tomas displayed its brilliant form Wednesday, beating Adamson University, 71-59, to reach the final of the UAAP Season 87 women's basketball tournament at the SM Mall of Asia Arena.

University of Santo Tomas is wary, but not necessarily intimidated, by National University’s perfect run so far as they battle each other in a best-of-three finals rematch.