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 in 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 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.

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 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

See also

• NCAA Final Four (Philippines)
• List of NCAA Final Four results (Philippines)

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 (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 under the "stepladder" format.^{[citation needed]}
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. ^{[citation needed]}

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