UAAP Season 69 basketball tournaments
The basketball tournaments of UAAP Season 69 started on July 8 at the Araneta Coliseum and ended on October 2 also at the same venue with the UST Growling Tigers defeating the Ateneo Blue Eagles in the third game of their Finals series.
The Ateneo Blue Eaglets trumphed over the FEU-FERN Baby Tamaraws to win the Juniors' championship, while the UST Tigresses won over the FEU Lady Tamaraws in the Women's Championship. In the Men's championship, the UST Growling Tigers rallied in the Finals series to beat the Ateneo Blue Eagles, 2 games to 1 to win their 19th basketball championship. Kenneth Bono of the Adamson Soaring Falcons, Raymond Austria of Ateneo and Cassy Tioseco of Ateneo won the Most Valuable Player awards.
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Qualified for the Finals |
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Qualified for semifinals with twice to beat advantage |
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Qualified for semifinals |
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Qualified for the first round |
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Qualified for knockout game |
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Suspended |
Men's basketball tournament
Elimination round
Host team in boldface.
Tiebreaker: UST defeats Adamson on the playoff for the 3rd seed, 85-71.
Rivalry games
These are the results of the different rivalry games:
Statistical leaders
- Points: Kenneth Bono (Adamson, 21.8)
- Rebounds: Jervy Cruz (UST, 12.8)
- Assists: Japs Cuan (UST, 6.3)
- Blocks: Elmer Espiritu (UE, 2.1)
- Steals: Marvin Cruz (UP, 2.0)
- Turnovers: Bonbon Custodio (UE, 4.3)
Classification game
Bracket
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Third-seed playoff |
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Semifinals
#1 & #2 have twice-to-beat advantage |
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Finals
Best-of-three series |
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Ateneo |
76 |
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Adamson |
73 |
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UST |
85 |
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Ateneo |
73 |
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74 |
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Adamson |
81 |
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UST |
72 |
87 |
76* |
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UE |
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81 |
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Asterisks (*) denotes the number of overtimes. |
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UST |
79 |
82 |
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Semifinals
Ateneo-Adamson series
UE-UST series
Finals
Awards
| 2006 Men's Basketball Champion |
UST
Eighteenth title
Nineteenth title including NCAA championships |
Suspensions
Juniors' basketball tournament
Elimination round
Bracket
With Ateneo's 12-0 sweep of the elimination round, the step ladder format will be used. After finishing 3rd and 4th in the elimination round, Adamson and UPIS will face for the right to face FEU-FERN in the next round in a twice-to-win disadvantage. Whoever wins in the semifinals between the winner of the knockout game and FEU-FERN will emerge into the Finals with Ateneo in a best of three series.
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First round
Knockout game |
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Semifinal
2nd seed has twice-to-beat advantage |
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Finals
Best of three series |
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Ateneo |
55 |
73 |
69 |
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FEU-FERN |
76 |
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FEU-FERN |
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UPIS |
78 |
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Adamson |
66 |
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Adamson |
84 |
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First round
The first round is a one-game playoff.
Semifinals
Finals
Awards
| 2006 Juniors' Basketball Champion |
Ateneo
Fourteenth title
Twenty-third title including NCAA championships |
- Most Valuable Player: Raymond Austria (Ateneo)
- Rookie of the Year: Jeff Olalia (Adamson)
- Mythical Five: Raymond Austria (Ateneo), Mike Gamboa (Ateneo), Socrates Rivera (FEU-FERN), Mark Lopez (FEU-FERN), Erwin Duran (UE)
Women's basketball tournament
Elimination round
Host team in boldface.
Tiebreakers:
- UST clinched the #1 seed and the twice to beat advantage at the semifinals with a better points difference (+35) against FEU (-13) and Ateneo (-22)
- FEU defeated Ateneo on the playoff for the 2nd seed, 49-48.
Bracket
With UST, FEU and Ateneo tied on the first spot, the points difference system was used - UST emerged with the highest quotient, so FEU and Ateneo figured in a classification game to determine which team gets the twice to beat advantage in the semifinals. FEU won the game, 49-48.
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Second-seed game |
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Semifinals
#1 & #2 have twice-to-beat advantage |
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Finals
Best-of-three series |
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UST |
64 |
78 |
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UP |
72 |
68 |
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UST |
52 |
67 |
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FEU |
49 |
75 |
59 |
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FEU |
49 |
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FEU |
53 |
46 |
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Ateneo |
48 |
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Ateneo |
63 |
44 |
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Second-seed game
Semifinals
UST–UP series
FEU–Ateneo series
Finals
Awards
| 2006 Women's Basketball Champion |
UST
Eleventh title |
- Most Valuable Player: Cassy Tioseco (Ateneo)
- Rookie of the Year: Katherine Sandel (Adamson)
- Mythical Five: Cassy Tioseco (Ateneo), AJ Barracoso (Ateneo), Rem Buenacosa (UST), Marichu Bacaro (UST), Merenciana Arayi (Adamson)
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