List of NCAA Final Four results (Philippines)

Final team standings for men's basketball since 1999.

This is a list of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) men's basketball Final Four results. The list includes NCAA men's basketball games played under the Final Four format since the 1998 season, the year the format was instituted.

The results include one-game playoffs where teams tied after the elimination round for a Final Four berth played an extra game to determine which team clinches the higher seed in the playoffs.

Since the NCAA is not a home-and-away league, the position of season host rotates among member universities, and the host pays for the arena rental and other facilities. Since the 2004 season, most Final Four games are held at the Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City, the Philippines largest indoor arena, unless the Big Dome is unavailable.

The league uses a modified Shaughnessy playoff system: the top four teams enter the playoffs, while the top two seeds are given the "twice-to-beat" advantage, that is, in order for them to be eliminated in the semifinals, they have to be beaten twice by the #3 and #4 seed, with them needing to win only once in order to advance. The winners in the semifinals dispute the championship trophy in a best-of-three series.

In its institution in 1998, if a team wins all of its elimination round games (the "sweep"), the sweeping team advances outright to the finals possessing the twice-to-beat advantage, while the #3 and #4 seeds figure in a playoff to face the #2 seed. After the San Sebastian juniors team swept the elimination round in 2008, the twice-to-beat incentive was dropped and the finals was turned into a best-of-three series. When the San Beda seniors team swept the elimination round in 2010, the #1 seed has a thrice to beat advantage in the finals, while the opponent has to be beaten twice to be defeated.

Results

For the semifinal columns, the #1 vs. #4 matchup is given first.

Year		Finals				Semifinals				One-game playoff
		Higher seed	Scores	Lower seed		Higher seed	Score/s	Lower seed		Winner	Score	Loser	Seed
1998		Letran	81-74 (OT)	SSC-R		Letran	def.	San Beda
						SSC-R	def.	UPHR
1999		JRC	74-75[1] 0-20[2][* 1]	Letran		SSC-R	63-65[3] def. by	Letran
						JRC	84-63[3]	UPHR
2000		CSB	66-64[4] 74-61[5]	SSC-R		JRC	53-60[6] 79-97[7]	SSC-R
						UPHR	70-73[6] 73-86[7]	CSB
2001[8]		JRU	74-77 95-81 62-95	SSC-R		JRU	94-98 99-76	CSB
						SSC-R	58-65 48-44	Mapúa
2002[9]		SSC-R	79-78 86-69	CSB		SSC-R	102-96 (OT)	JRU
						CSB	93-95 (OT) 106-87	PCU
2003[10]		Letran	89-73 77-85 64-59	SSC-R		Letran	72-66	Mapúa
						SSC-R	81-73	JRU
2004[11]		UPHDS	68-70 60-72	PCU		UPHDS	48-57 58-56	San Beda		San Beda	59-52	Mapúa	4th
						PCU	64-65 85-80 (OT)	Letran
2005[12] (details)		Letran	74-79 78-60 62-54	PCU		Letran	93-60	SSC-R
						PCU	76-53	Mapúa
2006[13] (details)		San Beda	71-57 50-72 68-67	PCU		San Beda	55-51	Mapúa		PCU	67-62	Letran	2nd
						PCU	72-50	Letran
2007[14] (details)		San Beda	76-68 76-64	Letran		San Beda	74-64	Mapúa
						Letran	70-61	JRU
2008[15] (details)		San Beda	72-68 60-62 85-69	JRU		San Beda	51-53 60-53	Mapúa		JRU	57-53	SSC-R	2nd/4th[* 2]
										Letran	62-52	Mapúa	2nd/4th[* 2]
						JRU	63-61	Letran		JRU	69-53	Letran	2nd[* 2]
										Mapúa	63-54	SSC-R	4th[* 2]
2009[16] (details)		San Beda	68-72 (2OT) 61-76	SSC-R		San Beda	82-76	Letran		San Beda	71-65	SSC-R	1st
						SSC-R	65-72 79-64	JRU
2010 (details)		San Beda	93-73 85-70	SSC-R		SSC-R	61-52	JRU
						JRU	60-54	Mapúa
2011 (details)		San Beda	75-63 57-55	SSC-R		San Beda	83-74	JRU		San Beda	88-85	SSC-R	1st
						SSC-R	62-70 63-56	Letran
2012 (details)		San Beda	62-60 55-64 67-39	Letran		San Beda	56-52	UPHSD		UPHSD	73-68	JRU	4th
						SSC-R	74-92 70-73	Letran
2013 (details)		San Beda	80-68 74-79 60-56	Letran		San Beda	70-51	UPHSD		SSC-R	81-71	UPHSD	3rd
						Letran	85-58	SSC-R
2014 (details)		San Beda	74-65 89-70	Arellano		San Beda	81-75	UPHSD		San Beda	97-69	Arellano	1st
						Arellano	72-65	JRU
2015 (details)		San Beda	90-94 68-61 82-85 (OT)	Letran		San Beda	78-68	JRU		San Beda	83-78	Letran	1st
						Letran	91-90	Mapúa		Mapúa	81-76	JRU	3rd
										Mapúa	93-75	Arellano	4th

Notes

1. Game 2 of the 1999 Finals was abandoned after a fraca where Letran point guard John Prior elbowed JRC's John Dale Valeña, with Letran leading 83–60. This caused the gallery to pelt debris to the court which caused the NCAA Commissioner to order JRC to concede the game.
2. With four teams tied for second place in 2008, a mini-tournament was held to determine the 2nd-4th seeds in which the team with the best head-to-head record among the four (SSC-R) meets the team with the worst head-to-head record (JRU), with the other two (Letran and Mapua) meeting each other in classification games. The winners of both games faced each other for the #2 seed while the losers faced for the #4 seed.

See also

• UAAP Final Four
• List of UAAP Final Four results

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