List of UAAP Final Four results

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.

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.

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. Since 2012, several Final Four and championship games are now also played at 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 #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 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]

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
 AdamsonAdamson University
 AteneoAteneo de Manila University
 La SalleDe La Salle University
 FEUFar Eastern University
 NUNational University
 UEUniversity of the East
 UPUniversity of the Philippines Diliman
 USTUniversity of Santo Tomas
(OT)Game went into overtime.
strikethroughGame was forfeited.
SeasonFinalsSemifinalsOne-game playoff
Higher seedScoresLower seedHigher seedScore/sLower seedWinnerScoreLoserSeed
1993
(details)		UST n/aUST named automatic champions after 14–0 elimination round record.
1994
(details)[5]		La Salle 77–74
75–89
76–77		 UST La Salle 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
La Salle 86–79 UE
1996
(details)[7]		La Salle 60–65
54–57		 UST La Salle 67–55 UE
UST 63–56 UP
1997
(details)[8]		FEU 62–60
65–64		 La Salle FEU 69–70
70–69		 UP
UST 73–82
72–74		 La Salle
1998
(details)[9]		La Salle 72–47
63–59		 FEU La Salle 51–55
56–51[10]		 UST UST 80–72 UP4th
FEU 68–81
83–61		 UE
1999
(details)[11]		La Salle 60–62
81–74
78–75 (OT)		 UST La Salle 91–69 FEU La Salle 84–79 UST1st
UST 75–74 Ateneo
2000
(details)[12]		La Salle 67–64
74–65		 FEU La Salle 65–62 UST UST 65–61 UE4th
Ateneo 60–61
67–75		 FEU
2001[nb 1]
(details)[13]		La Salle 74–68
72–76
93–88		 Ateneo La Salle 111–85 NU NU 108–102 (2OT) UE4th
Ateneo 67–63 FEU
2002
(details)[14]		La Salle 70–72
85–77
70–77		 Ateneo La Salle 97–84 UST None
UE 78–84
70–72		 Ateneo
2003
(details)[15]		Ateneo 65–83
53–69		 FEU Ateneo 72–76 (OT)[nb 2]
74–68		 La Salle FEU 80–75 UE2nd
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] Ateneo2nd
La Salle returned their trophy.[nb 2]La Salle 69–55[nb 2] Ateneo
2005
(details)[18]		FEU 75–73
73–71		 La Salle FEU 78–57 UE Ateneo 76–65 UE3rd
La Salle 74–57[nb 2] Ateneo
2006
(details)[19]		Ateneo 73–72
71–87
74–76 (OT)		 UST Ateneo 76–73 Adamson UST 85–71 Adamson3rd
UE 75–79
81–82		 UST
2007[nb 3]
(details)[20]		UE 63–64
64–73

 La Salle

 La Salle 64–65
65–60		 Ateneo UST 80–69 FEU4th
Ateneo 69–64 UST La Salle 70–69 Ateneo2nd
2008
(details)[21]		 Ateneo 69–61
62–51		 La Salle Ateneo 70–50 UE La Salle 62–59 FEU2nd
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 FEU4th
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 FEU2nd
La Salle 71–68 FEU
2014
(details)		 FEU 75–70
47–62
59–75		 NU Ateneo 74–78
63–65		 NU NU 51–49 UE4th
FEU 73–94
67–64		 La Salle FEU 65–60 La Salle2nd
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 Salle4th
Adamson 71–73
87–89 (OT)		 UP
2019
(details)		Ateneo 91–77
86–79		 UST UP 69–89
65–68		 UST None
FEU 71–81 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. 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]

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