List of UAAP Final Four results

The all-tournament team for the 2007 men's basketball tournament: Jervy Cruz, JV Casio, Chris Tiu (represented by his brother Charles), Mark Borboran and Rico Maierhofer, awarded at Game 2 of the 2007 Finals.

The University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) men's basketball Final Four is the postseason of the men's tournament of the UAAP Basketball Championship. Other divisions of UAAP basketball, the women's and juniors', also have their own versions of the Final Four.

Since the UAAP 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. Most Final Four games are held at the Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City, the Philippines' largest indoor arena. Other venues were the Cuneta Astrodome in Pasay, Blue Eagle Gym in Quezon City, Ninoy Aquino Stadium in Manila, and the PhilSports Arena in Pasig.

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. This advantage for the #1 and #2 seeds is that for them to be eliminated in the semifinals, they have to be beaten twice by the #4 and #3 seeds respectively; however, they need to win only once to advance. The winners in the semifinals dispute the championship trophy in a best-of-three series.

Winning percentage by the teams in the elimination round since 2000; La Salle's forfeited wins were not taken into account.

In its institution in 1993, if a team wins all of its elimination round games (the "sweep"), the sweeping team wins the championship outright. In that same year, the University of Santo Tomas (UST) won all fourteen games and were awarded the championship trophy, scrapping the postseason.[1] As a result, the "stepladder" format was used from 1994 to 2007 if a team sweeps the elimination round the sweeping team advances outright to the best-of-three finals, while the #3 and #4 seeds face off in a playoff to face the #2 seed still possessing the twice-to-beat advantage. After University of the East (UE) swept the elimination round in 2007 (the first since UST's sweep in 1993),[2] they were beaten by De La Salle University 20 in the finals series after a 21-day layoff. As a result, the league modified the "sweeper clause" by instituting the "bonus rule" the sweeping team has to be beaten thrice in the finals, while its opponent has to be beaten only twice.[3]

Until 2009, ties among teams that qualified for the playoffs, including those tied for the fourth seed, were resolved by playing a game. If there were three teams tied, two games were to be played to break the tie. By 2009, it was instituted that "common sense" will be used to break ties to avoid "senseless" games.[4]

This list includes men's basketball games played under the Final Four format since the 1994 season, a year after the format was instituted, and one-game playoffs in which 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.

Results

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

Legend
 Adamson Adamson University
 Ateneo Ateneo de Manila University
 La Salle De La Salle University
 FEU Far Eastern University
 NU National University
 UE University of the East
 UP University of the Philippines Diliman
 UST University of Santo Tomas
(OT) Game went into overtime.
strikethrough Game was forfeited.
Season Finals Semifinals One-game playoff
Higher seedScores Lower seed Higher seed Score/s Lower seed Winner Score Loser Seed
1993
(details)
UST 
n/a UST named automatic champions after 14–0 elimination round record.
1994
(details)[5]
77–74
75–89
76–77
 UST 65–63  FEU None
UE 
81–87
74–83
 UST
1995
(details)[6]
UST 
78–88
66–62
67–64
 La Salle
UST 
65–76
74–68
 FEU None
86–79  UE
1996
(details)[7]
60–65
54–57
 UST 67–55 UE None
UST 
63–56  UP
1997
(details)[8]
FEU 
62–60
65–64
 La Salle
FEU 
69–70
70–69
 UP None
UST 
73–82
72–74
 La Salle
1998
(details)[9]
72–47
63–59
 FEU 51–55
56–51[10]
 UST
UST 
80–72  UP 4th
FEU 
68–81
83–61
 UE
1999
(details)[11]
60–62
81–74
78–75 (OT)
 UST 91–69  FEU 84–79  UST 1st
UST 
75–74  Ateneo
2000
(details)[12]
67–64
74–65
 FEU 65–62  UST
UST 
65–61  UE 4th
60–61
67–75
 FEU
2001[nb 1]
(details)[13]
74–68
72–76
93–88
 Ateneo 111–85  NU
NU 
108–102 (2OT)  UE 4th
67–63  FEU
2002
(details)[14]
70–72
85–77
70–77
 Ateneo 97–84  UST None
UE 
78–84
70–72
 Ateneo
2003
(details)[15]
65–83
53–69
 FEU 72–76 (OT)[nb 2]
74–68
 La Salle
FEU 
80–75  UE 2nd
FEU 
67–63  UE
2004
(details)[17]
FEU 
51–58[nb 2]
67–57
65–68[nb 2]
 La Salle
FEU 
71–64  UE 82–69[nb 2]  Ateneo 2nd
La Salle returned their trophy.[nb 2] 69–55[nb 2] Ateneo
2005
(details)[18]
FEU 
75–73
73–71
 La Salle
FEU 
78–57  UE 76–65  UE 3rd
74–57[nb 2] Ateneo
2006
(details)[19]
73–72
71–87
74–76 (OT)
 UST 76–73  Adamson
UST 
85–71  Adamson 3rd
UE 
75–79
81–82
 UST
2007[nb 3]
(details)[20]
UE 
63–64
64–73

 La Salle

64–65
65–60
 Ateneo
UST 
80–69  FEU 4th
69–64  UST 70–69  Ateneo 2nd
2008
(details)[21]
69–61
62–51
 La Salle 70–50  UE 62–59  FEU 2nd
67–62  FEU
2009
(details)
78–71
68–88
71–58
 UE 81–64  UST None
FEU 
74–84
72–78
 UE
2010
(details)
FEU 
49–72
62–65
 Ateneo
FEU 
69–59 (OT)  La Salle None
68–55  Adamson
2011
(details)
82–64
82–69
 FEU 69–66  UST None
49–59
74–78
 FEU
2012
(details)
83–78
65–62
 UST 66–63  La Salle 69–66  FEU 4th
UST 
63–57  NU
2013
(details)
72–73
77–70
71–69 (OT)
 UST
NU 
62–71
69–76
 UST 74–69  FEU 2nd
71–68  FEU
2014
(details)
FEU 
75–70
47–62
59–75
 NU 74–78
63–65
 NU
NU 
51–49  UE 4th
FEU 
73–94
67–64
 La Salle
FEU 
65–60  La Salle 2nd
2015
(details)
UST 
64–75
62–56
62–67
 FEU
UST 
64–55  NU None
FEU 
76–74  Ateneo

Notes

  1. Starting in 2001, each game was played with four 10-minute quarters and a 24-second shot clock. Games before 2001 were played with two 20-minute halves and a 30 second shot clock.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 In 2005, La Salle had to forfeit all of their won games (elimination round and playoffs) from the 2003 to the 2005 seasons when two of their players were found to have falsified papers to enroll at the school, causing them to be ineligible. This led to the suspension all of La Salle's varsity teams (not just men's basketball) during the 2006-07 season and awarding Far Eastern University (FEU), their finals opponent, the 2004 men's basketball trophy.[16]
  3. In 2007, UE won all of their elimination round games so the "stepladder" format was used for the first time.[2]

See also

References

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  2. 1 2 Reuel Vidal (14 September 2007). "Warriors go 14-0". Manila Standard Today. Retrieved 19 January 2009.
  3. Jasmine Payo (28 June 2008). "Additional incentive for UAAP sweep". Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved 28 June 2008.
  4. Joey Villar (13 June 2009). "UAAP okays rules on tiebreak, instant replay". Philippine Star. Retrieved 1 February 2011.
  5. "UAAP 1994 results". UBelt.com. 14 January 2009. Retrieved 14 January 2009.
  6. "UAAP 1995 results". UBelt.com. 14 January 2009. Retrieved 14 January 2009.
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  10. Hansel David Co & Ramon Navarro Jr. (18 November 2008). "Victory March". The LaSallian Sports. Retrieved 14 January 2009.
  11. "UAAP 1999 results". UBelt.com. 14 January 2009. Retrieved 14 January 2009.
  12. "UAAP 2000 results". UBelt.com. 14 January 2009. Retrieved 14 January 2009.
  13. "UAAP 2001 results". UBelt.com. 14 January 2009. Retrieved 14 January 2009.
  14. "UAAP 2002 results". UBelt.com. 14 January 2009. Retrieved 14 January 2009.
  15. "UAAP 2003 results". UBelt.com. 14 January 2009. Retrieved 14 January 2009.
  16. Jasmine Payo, (21 November 2006). "UAAP declares Tamaraws 2004 cage champions". Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved 31 December 2007.
  17. "UAAP 2004 results". UBelt.com. 14 January 2009. Retrieved 14 January 2009.
  18. "UAAP 2005 results". UBelt.com. 14 January 2009. Retrieved 14 January 2009.
  19. "UAAP 2006 results". UBelt.com. 14 January 2009. Retrieved 14 January 2009.
  20. "UAAP 2007 results". UBelt.com. 14 January 2009. Retrieved 14 January 2009.
  21. "UAAP 2008 results". UBelt.com. 14 January 009. Retrieved 14 January 2009. Check date values in: |date= (help)

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