List of UAAP Final Four results

The UAAP Final Four is the postseason of the men's tournament of the UAAP basketball championships of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP). 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. In previous decades, the common venues for the league's playoffs stages were the Cuneta Astrodome in Pasay, Blue Eagle Gym in Quezon City, Ninoy Aquino Stadium in Manila, and the PhilSports Arena in Pasig. Since 2012, all playoff games (including seed-determining matches, semifinals and championship series) are now played at the Araneta Coliseum and the Mall of Asia Arena.

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 No. 1 and No. 2 seeds is that for them to be eliminated in the semifinals, they have to be beaten twice by the No. 4 and No. 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.

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 No. 3 and No. 4 seeds face off in a playoff to face the No. 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 2–0 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has to be beaten thrice in the finals, while its opponent has to be beaten only twice.[3] The "bonus rule" was later repealed in 2016 for most UAAP sports. In the new rule, a team which finishes the elimination round has a bye to the finals and the championship is a best-of-3 series only, while the other three teams will play in a stepladder semifinals round with the number 2 seed getting a twice-to-beat advantage. The stepladder round winner advances to the finals against the sweeping team.[4]

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.[5]

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 No. 1 vs. No. 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 seed Scores Lower seed Higher seed Score/s Lower seed Winner Score Loser Seed
1993
(details) 		UST  – UST named automatic champions after 14–0 elimination round record.
1994
(details)[6] 		La Salle  77–74
75–89
76–77 		 UST La Salle  65–63  FEU None
UE  81–87
74–83 		 UST
1995
(details)[7] 		UST  78–88
66–62
67–64 		 La Salle UST  65–76
74–68 		 FEU
La Salle  86–79  UE
1996
(details)[8] 		La Salle  60–65
54–57 		 UST La Salle  67–55  UE
UST  63–56  UP
1997
(details)[9] 		FEU  62–60
65–64 		 La Salle FEU  69–70
70–69 		 UP
UST  73–82
72–74 		 La Salle
1998
(details)[10] 		La Salle  72–47
63–59 		 FEU La Salle  51–55
56–51[11] 		 UST UST  80–72  UP 4th
FEU  68–81
83–61 		 UE
1999
(details)[12] 		La Salle  60–62
81–74
78–75 (OT) 		 UST La Salle  91–69  FEU La Salle  84–79  UST 1st
UST  75–74  Ateneo
2000
(details)[13] 		La Salle  67–64
74–65 		 FEU La Salle  65–62  UST UST  65–61  UE 4th
Ateneo  60–61
67–75 		 FEU
2001[nb 1]
(details)[14] 		La Salle  74–68
72–76
93–88 		 Ateneo La Salle  111–85  NU NU  108–102 (2OT)  UE 4th
Ateneo  67–63  FEU
2002
(details)[15] 		La Salle  70–72
85–77
70–77 		 Ateneo La Salle  97–84  UST None
UE  78–84
70–72 		 Ateneo
2003
(details)[16] 		Ateneo  65–83
53–69 		 FEU Ateneo  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 La Salle  82–69[nb 2]  Ateneo 2nd
La Salle returned their trophy.[nb 2] La Salle  69–55[nb 2]  Ateneo
2005
(details)[19] 		FEU  75–73
73–71 		 La Salle FEU  78–57  UE Ateneo  76–65  UE 3rd
La Salle  74–57[nb 2]  Ateneo
2006
(details)[20] 		Ateneo  73–72
71–87
74–76 (OT) 		 UST Ateneo  76–73  Adamson UST  85–71  Adamson 3rd
UE  75–79
81–82 		 UST
2007[nb 3]
(details)[21] 		UE  63–64
64–73

 La Salle

La Salle  64–65
65–60 		 Ateneo UST  80–69  FEU 4th
Ateneo  69–64  UST La Salle  70–69  Ateneo 2nd
2008
(details)[22] 		Ateneo  69–61
62–51 		 La Salle Ateneo  70–50  UE La Salle  62–59  FEU 2nd
La Salle  67–62  FEU
2009
(details) 		Ateneo  78–71
68–88
71–58 		 UE Ateneo  81–64  UST None
FEU  74–84
72–78 		 UE
2010
(details) 		FEU  49–72
62–65 		 Ateneo FEU  69–59 (OT)  La Salle
Ateneo  68–55  Adamson
2011
(details) 		Ateneo  82–64
82–69 		 FEU Ateneo  69–66  UST
Adamson  49–59
74–78 		 FEU
2012
(details) 		Ateneo  83–78
65–62 		 UST Ateneo  66–63  La Salle La Salle  69–66  FEU 4th
UST  63–57  NU
2013
(details) 		La Salle  72–73
77–70
71–69 (OT) 		 UST NU  62–71
69–76 		 UST La Salle  74–69  FEU 2nd
La Salle  71–68  FEU
2014
(details) 		FEU  75–70
47–62
59–75 		 NU Ateneo  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
2016
(details) 		La Salle  67–65
79–72 		 Ateneo La Salle  69–64  Adamson
Ateneo  61–62
69–68 (OT) 		 FEU
2017
(details) 		Ateneo  76–70
83–92
88–86 		 La Salle Ateneo  67–80
88–84 (OT) 		 FEU
La Salle  82–75  Adamson
2018
(details) 		Ateneo  88–79
99–81 		 UP Ateneo  80–61  FEU FEU  71–70  La Salle 4th
Adamson  71–73
87–89 (OT) 		 UP
2019[nb 4]
(details) 		Ateneo  91–77
86–79 		 UST UP  69–89
65–68 		 UST None
FEU  71–81  UST
2020 Not held Not held
2021[nb 5]
(details) 		Ateneo  74–81 (OT)
69–66
69–72 (OT) 		 UP Ateneo  85–72  FEU
UP  80–83
78–74 		 La Salle
2022
(details) 		Ateneo  66–72
65–55
75–68 		 UP Ateneo  81–60  Adamson Adamson  80–76  La Salle 4th
UP  69–61  NU
2023
(details) 		UP  97–67
60–82
69–73 		 La Salle UP  57–46  Ateneo Ateneo  70–48  Adamson 4th
La Salle  97–73  NU
2024
(details) 		La Salle  65–73
76–75
62–66 		 UP La Salle  70–55  Adamson Adamson  68–55  UE 4th
UP  78–69  UST

See also

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. ^ a b c d e f g In 2005, La Salle had to forfeit all of their won games (group stage 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.[18]
  3. ^ In 2007, UE won all of their group stage games so the "stepladder" format was used for the first time.[2]
  4. ^ In 2019, Ateneo became the first men's basketball team in the league's history to complete the 16–0 season sweep.[23]
  5. ^ The basketball tournaments were held in the second semester of the 2021–2022 academic year and only featured the collegiate men's division due to COVID-19 pandemic restrictions at the time.[24]

References

  1. ^ Jasmine Payo (1 January 2008). "UE completes 14–0, but barely". Philippine Daily Inquirer. Archived from the original on 15 September 2007. Retrieved 14 September 2007.
  2. ^ a b 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. Archived from the original on 6 October 2008. Retrieved 28 June 2008.
  4. ^ Leongson, Randolph (30 August 2016). "No more thrice-to-beat edge in UAAP". Philippine Daily Inquirer.
  5. ^ Joey Villar (13 June 2009). "UAAP okays rules on tiebreak, instant replay". Philippine Star. Archived from the original on 31 January 2013. Retrieved 1 February 2011.
  6. ^ "UAAP 1994 results". UBelt.com. 14 January 2009. Archived from the original on 20 June 2007. Retrieved 14 January 2009.
  7. ^ "UAAP 1995 results". UBelt.com. 14 January 2009. Archived from the original on 20 June 2007. Retrieved 14 January 2009.
  8. ^ "UAAP 1996 results". UBelt.com. 14 January 2009. Archived from the original on 20 June 2007. Retrieved 14 January 2009.
  9. ^ "UAAP 1997 results". UBelt.com. 14 January 2009. Archived from the original on 20 June 2007. Retrieved 14 January 2009.
  10. ^ "UAAP 1998 results". UBelt.com. 14 January 2009. Archived from the original on 20 June 2007. Retrieved 14 January 2009.
  11. ^ Hansel David Co & Ramon Navarro Jr. (18 November 2008). "Victory March". The LaSallian Sports. Retrieved 14 January 2009.
  12. ^ "UAAP 1999 results". UBelt.com. 14 January 2009. Archived from the original on 20 June 2007. Retrieved 14 January 2009.
  13. ^ "UAAP 2000 results". UBelt.com. 14 January 2009. Archived from the original on 20 June 2007. Retrieved 14 January 2009.
  14. ^ "UAAP 2001 results". UBelt.com. 14 January 2009. Archived from the original on 9 February 2009. Retrieved 14 January 2009.
  15. ^ "UAAP 2002 results". UBelt.com. 14 January 2009. Archived from the original on 9 February 2009. Retrieved 14 January 2009.
  16. ^ "UAAP 2003 results". UBelt.com. 14 January 2009. Archived from the original on 9 February 2009. Retrieved 14 January 2009.
  17. ^ "UAAP 2004 results". UBelt.com. 14 January 2009. Archived from the original on 20 June 2007. Retrieved 14 January 2009.
  18. ^ Jasmine Payo (21 November 2006). "UAAP declares Tamaraws 2004 cage champions". Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved 31 December 2007.
  19. ^ "UAAP 2005 results". UBelt.com. 14 January 2009. Archived from the original on 9 February 2009. Retrieved 14 January 2009.
  20. ^ "UAAP 2006 results". UBelt.com. 14 January 2009. Archived from the original on 9 February 2009. Retrieved 14 January 2009.
  21. ^ "UAAP 2007 results". UBelt.com. 14 January 2009. Archived from the original on 9 February 2009. Retrieved 14 January 2009.
  22. ^ "UAAP 2008 results". UBelt.com. 14 January 2009. Archived from the original on 9 February 2009. Retrieved 14 January 2009.
  23. ^ Naredo, Camille (20 November 2019). "Sweep 16! Ateneo wins UAAP 82 title in historic fashion". ABS-CBN.com. Retrieved 29 November 2024.
  24. ^ Luisa Morales (25 February 2022). "UAAP confirms return in March". Philippine Star. Retrieved 29 November 2024.

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