ncaa men's college basketball championship

ncaa men's college basketball championship

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This article is about the NCAA Philippines Basketball Championship. For the ongoing 2007-2008 tournament, see NCAA Season 83. For a list of champions, see List of NCAA Philippines basketball champions. For the American counterpart, see NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship. NCAA Basketball Championship (Philippines) Sport Basketball Founded 1924 No. of teams 8 Country(ies) Philippines Most recent champion(s) San Beda Red Lions (Seniors'), San Sebastian Staglets (Juniors')
The National Collegiate Athletic Association basketball tournament is held every first semester of the academic year (from June up to October). Each year, eight schools vie to win the two championships: the Juniors and Seniors. If a school wins both championships in one season, it said that they have won the "double championship."
The tournament commences with a double-round robin of eliminations, where the four teams with the best records advance to the semifinals, with the two top seeds clinching the twice to beat advantage. The winners in the semifinals meet in a best-of-3 Finals series, in order to determine the champion.
The championship is continually contested since the league's foundation in 1924, except during World War II and the mid-1960s when scandals rocked the league. The current champions are the San Beda Red Lions for the Seniors and the San Sebastian Staglets for the Juniors.
The athletic nicknames of the different teams variously came from the school's founders, or from a distinct quality that separated a school from the others.
Notably, the first champion of this event was crowned in 1925, 14 years before the U.S. NCAA tournament was instituted.
History1924: The NCAA began its first season. In basketball, the Ateneo de Manila won the Midgets title, De La Salle College won the Juniors title, and the University of the Philippines won the seniors title. 1927: San Beda won their first Seniors title in the NCAA's fourth season. 1936: UP and UST withdrew permanently from the NCAA. FEU also withdrew. 1939: A pair of Ateneo-La Salle Final games were held at the Rizal Memorial Coliseum. The juniors La Salle team defeated the Ateneo juniors team, while later on the day the La Salle seniors team defeated the Ateneo seniors team. The La Salle seniors team captured their first NCAA Basketball title. 1941: Ateneo de Manila and Jose Rizal College won the last basketball championships before the start of World War II. 1947: The Championship Game went into the last shot, which led to La Salle winning the first basketball championship after the Pacific War, against Mapua. 1950: At the final game of the elimination round, the Letran Knights were assured of a title, for they've won the two rounds, but the San Beda Red Lions beat them on the final non-bearing game, depriving them of a season sweep. 1955: San Beda won the three-legged Crispulo Zamora Cup defeating Ateneo de Manila. 1962: At the Final game, a riot ensued when Mapua supporters alleged that a referee favored the Ateneo team. The Eagles won the game, and the championship. 1972: The JRC Heavy Bombers wins their last (as of 2005) NCAA title, with all of its starting five being drafted to the newly formed Philippine Basketball Association three years later. 1974: First round pennant winners La Salle defeated second round pennant winners Ateneo 90-80. 1977: In the 1977 Finals series, Ateneo de Manila and San Beda had their melee at the Araneta Coliseum. This led to a closed-door match, wherein Ateneo de Manila's Pons Valdez's last shot was disallowed as time expired [1], giving San Beda the victory. 1978: League-wide violence led to the withdrawal of Ateneo de Manila from the NCAA. At the time Ateneo de Manila left, it had the most number of titles in men's basketball, a record that would only be tied and surpassed in 2003.[2][3] San Beda withdrew in 1982 but came back in 1986. 1980: La Salle fans and Letran supporters engaged themselves in a brawl during the second round of eliminations in the 1980 season. The Rizal Memorial Coliseum was wrecked apart as the two sides ripped apart the chairs bolted to the ground and threw them as weapons. The Basketball Association of the Philippines aborted the 1980 season and suspended Letran in all events. In 1981, the league readmitted Letran, which led to La Salle withdrawing from the NCAA.[4] La Salle went to the UAAP, but was denied membership on their first try (with a vote of 5-2, with Ateneo de Manila and UST voting against). La Salle was finally admitted to the UAAP in 1986. 1982: Samboy Lim led the Knights to two pennants, scrapping the Championship round, with the only loss coming from the San Sebastian Stags. This would be start the three-year championship streak of Letran. 1989: Only on their fifth year at the league, Perpetual Help barged into the Finals, led by Bong Hawkins. However, they were beaten by the defending champions, San Sebastian, in the three game series. 1991: Benny Cheng of Mapua scored on the last second of the deciding Game 3 to deny San Beda the championship, at ULTRA. Mapua snapped their "once in a sixteen years" championship curse as San Beda extended their title drought to 14. 1997: San Sebastian led by Romel Adducul made the last 14-0 Seniors sweep (as of 2006) in the tournament. Facing San Beda in the Finals with a twice to beat advantage, the Red Lions responded with a last second three-pointer that prevented a a San Sebastian championship. But on the deciding game, the Stags won, capping off a five-year run as NCAA champions, with an overall record of 15-1. 2000: College of Saint of Benilde won their first NCAA seniors title, despite joining the league a season earlier. This marks the fastest win for any new school in the league since the World War. In the Juniors Finals series, The Letran Squires qualified outright for the Finals with a 14-0 record. They were beaten twice be the Mapua Red Robins in the Finals. This was the last Juniors championship of the Mapua Institute of Technology. 2004: The seniors Finals series featured two teams who have never won the seniors championship before: Philippine Christian and Perpetual Help. Philippine Christian won the series in two games, with Gabby Espinas becoming the first-ever Most Valuable Player and Rookie of the Year within the same season. 2005: Letran won their 16th championship to remain the winningest team in NCAA history. they won 11 straight games which is the longest in six years but were cut short by a loss to Mapua in their 12th game. it's also a sweet revenge for them as they beat their tormentors, the PCU Dolphins who knocked them out in the Final 4 a year before. 2006: San Beda finally broke their 28-year championship drought as they edged out three-time finalist PCU in the final game that went to the last shot. 2007: San Beda won their first back to back title since 1978 sweeping the Letran Knights in two games.

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