UAAP Season 69 basketball tournaments
| Host school | University of the East | |||||||||||||||
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| Duration | Sept. 24, 2006 - Oct. 2, 2006 | |||||||||||||||
| Arena/s | Araneta Coliseum | |||||||||||||||
| Finals MVP | Jojo Duncil | |||||||||||||||
| Winning coach | Pido Jarencio | |||||||||||||||
| Semifinalists | UE school colors UE Red Warriors Adamson Falcons |
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| TV network/s | Studio 23 and TFC | |||||||||||||||
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| Duration | September 21 to 30 | |||||||||||||||
| Arena/s | Araneta Coliseum
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| Semifinalists | UP school colors UP Lady Maroons Ateneo school colors Ateneo Lady Eagles |
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| Duration | September 21 to 30 | |||||||||||||||
| Arena/s | Araneta Coliseum | |||||||||||||||
| Finals MVP | Michael Gamboa | |||||||||||||||
| Semifinalists | Adamson Baby Falcons UP school colors UPIS Junior Maroons |
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| TV network/s | Studio 23 and TFC | |||||||||||||||
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The basketball tournaments of UAAP Season 69 started on July 8, 2006 at the Araneta Coliseum and ended on October 2, 2006 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.
Contents
Key
| Qualified for the Finals | |
| Qualified for semifinals with twice to beat advantage | |
| Qualified for semifinals | |
| Qualified for the first round | |
| Qualified for knockout game | |
| Suspended |
Men's basketball tournament
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Elimination round
| # | Team | W | L | PCT | GB | Tie |
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| 1 | Ateneo school colors Ateneo Blue Eagles | 10 | 2 | .833 | -- | |
| 2 | UE school colors UE Red Warriors | 8 | 4 | .667 | 2 | |
| 3 | UST school colors UST Growling Tigers | 6 | 6 | .500 | 4 |  |
| 4 | Adamson Falcons |
6 | 6 | .500 | 4 |  |
| 5 |  FEU Tamaraws |
5 | 7 | .417 | 5 | |
| 6 | UP school colors UP Fighting Maroons | 4 | 8 | .333 | 6 | |
| 7 | NU school colors NU Bulldogs | 3 | 9 | .250 | 7 | |
| 8 | La Salle school colors De La Salle Green Archers | Suspended | ||||
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
| Third-seed playoff | Semifinals #1 & #2 have twice-to-beat advantage |
Finals Best-of-three series |
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| 1 | Ateneo school colors Ateneo | 76 | |||||||||||||
| 4 | Adamson |
73 | |||||||||||||
| UST school colors UST | 85 | 1 | Ateneo school colors Ateneo | 73 | 71 | 74 | |||||||||
| Adamson |
81 | 3 | UST school colors UST | 72 | 87 | 76* | |||||||||
| 2 | UE school colors UE | 75 | 81 | Asterisks (*) denotes the number of overtimes. | |||||||||||
| 3 | UST school colors UST | 79 | 82 | ||||||||||||
Semifinals
Ateneo-Adamson series
UE-UST series
Finals
Awards
| 2006 Men's Basketball Champion |
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| 100px UST Eighteenth title Nineteenth title including NCAA championships |
- Finals Most Valuable Player: Jojo Duncil (UST)
- Season Most Valuable Player: Ken Bono (Adamson)
- Rookie of the Year: Woodward 'Woody' Co (UP)
- Mythical Five
- Guard: Marvin Cruz (UP)
- Guard: Jeffrei Chan (FEU)
- Forward: J.C. Intal (Ateneo)
- Forward: Jervy Cruz (UST)
- Center: Ken Bono (Adamson)
- Gilette Breakout Player: J.C. Intal (Ateneo)
- PSBank Maasahan (Dependable) Player: Ken Bono (Adamson)
- Coach of the Year: Pido Jarencio (UST)
- Player of the Year: J.C. Intal (Ateneo)
- Scoring Champion: Ken Bono (Adamson)
- Mr. Clutch: Jojo Duncil (UST)
- Defensive Player: Jervy Cruz (UST)
- Sixth Man: Dylan Ababou (UST)
- Comeback Player: Chris Tiu (Ateneo)
- Most Improved Player: Marvin Cruz (UP)
- Sportsmanship Award: Jeffrei Chan (FEU)
- Energy Player: Marcy Arellano (UE)
Suspensions
- Jonathan Jankhe of the NU Bulldogs for shoving a closed fist against Vicmel Epres of the UP Fighting Maroons. Served one game suspension against, ironically, the same team.
- Jojo Duncil of the UST Growling Tigers for headbutting Dave Catamora of the NU Bulldogs. Served one game suspension against the Adamson Soaring Falcons.
- Ira Buyco of the UP Fighting Maroons for hitting Macky Escalona of the Ateneo Blue Eagles in the face on a rebound play. Served one game suspension against the Adamson Soaring Falcons.
- UE suspended Bonifacio Custodio of the UE Red Warriors for disciplinary action. Served suspension on Game 2 of the semifinals against the UST Growling Tigers.
- Anthony Espiritu of the UST Growling Tigers was supposedly suspended on Game 3 of the Finals due to two flagrant fouls on Game 2 but was instead given a warning by the UAAP Board.
Women's basketball tournament
Elimination round
| # | Team | W | L | PCT | GB | |
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| 1 | UST school colors UST Tigresses | 9 | 3 | .750 | -- | |
| 2 | FEU Lady Tamaraws |
9 | 3 | .750 | -- | |
| 3 | Ateneo school colors Ateneo Lady Eagles | 9 | 3 | .750 | -- | |
| 4 | UP school colors UP Lady Maroons | 7 | 5 | .583 | 2 | |
| 5 | Adamson Lady Falcons |
6 | 6 | .500 | 3 | |
| 6 | UE school colors UE Lady Warriors | 2 | 10 | .157 | 7 | |
| 7 | NU school colors NU Lady Bulldogs | 0 | 12 | .000 | 9 | |
| 8 | La Salle school colors De La Salle Lady Archers | Suspended | ||||
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.
| Second-seed game | Semifinals #1 & #2 have twice-to-beat advantage |
Finals Best-of-three series |
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| 1 | 12px UST | 64 | 78 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | 12px UP | 72 | 68 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | 12px UST | 52 | 67 | 67 | |||||||||||
| 2 |  FEU |
49 | 75 | 59 | |||||||||||
| FEU |
49 | 2 | FEU |
53 | 46 | ||||||||||
| Ateneo school colors Ateneo | 48 | 3 | 12px Ateneo | 63 | 44 | ||||||||||
Second-seed game
Semifinals
UST–UP series
FEU–Ateneo series
Finals
Awards
| 2006 Women's Basketball Champion |
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| 100px UST Eleventh title |
- Season 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)
Juniors' basketball tournament
Elimination round
| # | Team | W | L | PCT | GB |
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| 1 | Ateneo school colors Ateneo Blue Eaglets | 12 | 0 | 1.000 | -- |
| 2 | FEU-Diliman Baby Tamaraws |
10 | 2 | .833 | 2 |
| 3 | UP school colors UPIS Junior Maroons | 7 | 5 | .583 | 5 |
| 4 | Adamson Baby Falcons |
6 | 6 | .500 | 6 |
| 5 | UST school colors UST Tiger Cubs | 4 | 8 | .333 | 8 |
| 6 | UE school colors UE Junior Warriors | 2 | 10 | .167 | 10 |
| 7 | NU school colors NSNU Bullpups | 1 | 11 | .083 | 11 |
| 8 | La Salle school colors De La Salle Junior Archers | Suspended | |||
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.
| Semifinals One-game playoff |
Semifinals No. 2 seed has twice-to-beat advantage |
Finals Best of three series |
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| 1 | 12px Ateneo | 55 | 73 | 69 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | FEU-FERN |
76 | 2 | FEU-FERN |
67 | 65 | 61 | |||||||||
| 3 | 12px UPIS | 78 | 4 |  Adamson |
66 | |||||||||||
| 4 | Adamson |
84 | ||||||||||||||
First round
The first round is a one-game playoff.
Semifinals
Finals
Awards
| 2006 Juniors' Basketball Champion |
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| 100px Ateneo Fourteenth title Twenty-third title including NCAA championships |
- Finals Most Valuable Player: Michael Gamboa (Ateneo)
- Season Most Valuable Player: Raymond Austria (Ateneo)
- Rookie of the Year: Jeff Olalia (Adamson)
- Mythical Five:
- Raymond Austria (Ateneo)
- Michael Gamboa (Ateneo)
- Socrates Rivera (FEU-FERN)
- Mark Lopez (FEU-FERN)
- Erwin Duran (UE)
References
External links
- Official UAAP website
- UAAP Basketball at UBelt.com: Men's | Women's | Juniors'
| Preceded by | UAAP basketball seasons Season 69 (2006) |
Succeeded by Season 70 (2007) |
