UAAP Season 68 was the 2005–06 season of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines. Several events were held, the most prominent was the basketball tournament. The tournament is divided into three divisions: the Juniors tournament for high school students, the Women's tournament for female college students, and the Men's tournament for male college students
The FEU Tamaraws swept the defending champions La Salle Green Archers, 2 games to none in the Men's tournament to take their record-breaking 19th title, with Arwind Santos as the Finals MVP. It was a rematch of the 2004 Final, where the Archers prevailed, 2–1.
In the juniors division, the De La Salle Zobel Junior Archers swept the UPIS Junior Maroons, 2–0, to take their first UAAP title. It was also La Salle's first Juniors title since the 1955 La Salle Green Hills championship in the NCAA.
In the women's tournament, the Ateneo Lady Eagles swept the Adamson Lady Falcons, 2 games to none, to win their first UAAP women's title. The Lady Eagles snapped the Lady Falcons' two year title run.
Basketball
[edit]Men's tournament
[edit]Elimination round
[edit]| Pos | Team | W | L | PCT | GB | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 👁 FEU school colors FEU Tamaraws |
12 | 2 | .857 | — | Twice-to-beat in the semifinals |
| 2 | 👁 La Salle school colors De La Salle Green Archers[a] |
10 | 4 | .714[b] | 2 | |
| 3 | 👁 Ateneo school colors Ateneo Blue Eagles |
10 | 4 | .714[b] | 2 | Twice-to-win in the semifinals |
| 4 | 👁 UE school colors UE Red Warriors |
10 | 4 | .714[b] | 2 | |
| 5 | 👁 UP school colors UP Fighting Maroons |
6 | 8 | .429 | 6 | |
| 6 | 👁 UST school colors UST Growling Tigers |
4 | 10 | .286 | 8 | |
| 7 | 👁 Adamson school colors Adamson Falcons (H) |
3 | 11 | .214 | 9 | |
| 8 | 👁 NU school colors NU Bulldogs |
1 | 13 | .071 | 11 |
- ^ This "final" team standings is overturned when La Salle forfeited their games after the season was over. See Suspension of De La Salle University for details.
- ^ a b c Head-to-head record: La Salle 3–1, Ateneo 2–2, UE 1–3; third-seed playoff: Ateneo 76–65 UE
Note: The "final" team standings were adjusted when La Salle forfeited its games after the season was over. See Suspension of De La Salle University-Manila for details.
Playoffs
[edit]| Semifinals (Top 2 twice-to-beat) | Finals (Best-of-three playoff) | |||||
| 1 | 👁 FEU school colors FEU | 78 | ||||
| 4 | 👁 UE school colors UE | 57 | ||||
| 1 | 👁 FEU school colors FEU | 75 | 73 | |||
| 2 | 👁 La Salle school colors La Salle | 73 | 71 | |||
| 2 | 👁 La Salle school colors La Salle | 74 | ||||
| 3 | 👁 Ateneo school colors Ateneo | 57 | ||||
Awards
[edit]| men's basketball champions |
|---|
| 👁 FEU school colors FEU Tamaraws 19th title, third consecutive title |
- Finals Most Valuable Player: Arwind Santos (FEU Tamaraws)
- Season Most Valuable Player: Arwind Santos (FEU Tamaraws)
- Rookie of the Year: Jai Reyes (Ateneo Blue Eagles)
Women's tournament
[edit]Awards
[edit]- Finals Most Valuable Player: Cassey Tioseco (Ateneo Lady Eagles)
- Season Most Valuable Player: Kristine Prado (De La Salle Lady Archers)
- Rookie of the Year: Sihaya Sadorra (UP Lady Maroons)
Juniors' tournament
[edit]The Juniors' tournament saw the return of Far Eastern University juniors team, the FEU-FERN Baby Tamaraws.
Elimination round
[edit]| Pos | Team | W | L | PCT | GB | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 👁 Ateneo school colors Ateneo Blue Eaglets |
12 | 2 | .857 | — | Twice-to-beat in the semifinals |
| 2 | 👁 La Salle school colors Zobel Junior Archers |
11 | 3 | .786 | 1 | |
| 3 | 👁 FEU school colors FEU–D Baby Tamaraws |
10 | 4 | .714[a] | 2 | Twice-to-win in the semifinals |
| 4 | 👁 UP school colors UPIS Junior Fighting Maroons |
10 | 4 | .714[a] | 2 | |
| 5 | 👁 Adamson school colors Adamson Baby Falcons (H) |
7 | 7 | .500 | 5 | |
| 6 | 👁 UST school colors UST Tiger Cubs |
5 | 9 | .357 | 7 | |
| 7 | 👁 UE school colors UE Junior Red Warriors |
2 | 12 | .143 | 10 | |
| 8 | 👁 NU school colors NUNS Bullpups |
0 | 14 | .000 | 12 |
Rules for classification: 1) winning percentage; 2) if tied for #2 or #4, one-game playoff; 3) head-to-head record; 4) head-to-head point differential; 5) overall point differential
(H) Hosts
Notes:
Playoffs
[edit]| Semifinals | Best of 3 Finals | ||||||
| 1 | 👁 Ateneo school colors Ateneo | 61 | 58 | ||||
| 4 | 👁 UP school colors UPIS | 62 | 76 | ||||
| 4 | 👁 UP school colors UPIS | 49 | 62 | ||||
| 2 | 👁 La Salle school colors DLSZ | 73 | 86 | ||||
| 2 | 👁 La Salle school colors DLSZ | 74 | |||||
| 3 | 👁 FEU school colors FEU–FERN | 66 | |||||
Semifinals
[edit]In the semifinals, the higher seed has the twice-to-beat advantage, where they only have to win once, while their opponents twice, to progress.
(1) Ateneo vs. (4) UPIS
[edit]The Ateneo Blue Eaglets had the twice-to-beat advantage.
September 25
|
| Ateneo Blue Eaglets 👁 Ateneo school colors |
61–62 | 👁 UP school colors UPIS Junior Fighting Maroons |
September 29
|
| Ateneo Blue Eaglets 👁 Ateneo school colors |
58–76 | 👁 UP school colors UPIS Junior Fighting Maroons |
| UPIS wins series in two games | ||
(2) DLSZ vs. (3) FEU-FERN
[edit]The De La Salle Junior Archers had twice-to-beat advantage.
September 25
|
| Zobel Junior Archers 👁 La Salle school colors |
74–66 | 👁 FEU school colors FEU–D Baby Tamaraws |
| La Salle wins series in one game | ||
Finals
[edit]October 2
|
| Zobel Junior Archers 👁 La Salle school colors |
73–49 | 👁 UP school colors UPIS Junior Fighting Maroons |
October 6
|
| Zobel Junior Archers 👁 La Salle school colors |
86–62 | 👁 UP school colors UPIS Junior Fighting Maroons |
| La Salle wins series 2–0 | ||
Awards
[edit]- Finals Most Valuable Player: Simon Atkins (Zobel Junior Archers)
- Season Most Valuable Player: Francis Maniego (UPIS Junior Fighting Maroons)
- Rookie of the Year: Raffy Mangahas (FEU–D Baby Tamaraws)
Cheerdance
[edit]The Cheerdance Competition was held on September 17, 2005 at the Araneta Coliseum.
| Order | Pep squad | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | 👁 UST school colors UST Salinggawi Dance Troupe |
90.98 |
| 2nd | 👁 UP school colors UP Pep Squad |
90.76 |
| 3rd | 👁 FEU school colors FEU Cheering Squad |
88.72 |
| 4th | 👁 La Salle school colors DLSU Animo Squad |
76.37 |
| 5th | 👁 UE school colors UE Pep Squad |
76.15 |
| 6th | 👁 Adamson school colors Adamson Pep Squad |
76.09 |
| 7th | 👁 Ateneo school colors Ateneo Blue Babble Battalion |
69.33 |
| 8th | 👁 NU school colors NU Pep Squad |
64.48 |
General championship summary
[edit]The general champion is determined by a point system. The system gives 15 points to the champion team of a UAAP event, 12 to the runner-up, and 10 to the third placer. The following points: 8, 6, 4, 2 and 1 are given to the rest of the participating teams according to their order of finish.
Medals table
[edit]
Seniors' division[edit]
* Host nation (Season host); General champions
Notes: Results are final. |
Juniors' division[edit]
* Host nation (Season host); General champions
Notes: Results are final. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
General championship tally
[edit]Seniors' division
[edit]| 👁 Basketball | 👁 Volleyball (indoor) | 👁 Swimming | 👁 Chess | 👁 Tennis | 👁 Table tennis | 👁 Badminton | 👁 Taekwondo | 👁 Judo | 👁 Baseball | 👁 Softball | 👁 Football | 👁 Athletics | 👁 Fencing | Total | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Team | M | W | M | W | M | W | M | W | M | W | M | W | M | W | M | W | M | W | M | W | M | W | M | W | M | W | M | W | Overall | |
| 1 | 👁 UST school colors UST | 4 | 4 | 12 | 10 | 12 | 15 | 10 | 15 | 12 | 12 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 10 | 15 | 15 | 10 | 15 | 12 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 141 | 147 | 288 | |
| 2 | 👁 UP school colors UP | 6 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 15 | 12 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 10 | 12 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 15 | 12 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 129 | 116 | 245 | |
| 3 | 👁 La Salle school colors La Salle | 12 | 6 | 6 | 15 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 15 | 15 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 15 | 8 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 15 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 115 | 126 | 241 | |
| 4 | 👁 Ateneo school colors Ateneo | 10 | 15 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 15 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 15 | 6 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 12 | 103 | 103 | 206 | |
| 5 | 👁 FEU school colors FEU | 15 | 8 | 15 | 8 | — | — | 6 | 8 | — | — | 8 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 10 | 8 | — | — | — | — | 6 | 10 | 15 | 15 | 12 | 6 | 99 | 87 | 186 | |
| 6 | 👁 UE school colors UE (H) | 8 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 6 | — | 10 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 6 | — | 10 | 4 | — | 6 | 12 | 15 | 15 | 93 | 69 | 162 | |
| 7 | 👁 Adamson school colors Adamson | 2 | 12 | 8 | 12 | — | — | 4 | — | — | — | 2 | 4 | 2 | 6 | — | — | — | — | 6 | 15 | — | — | 2 | 6 | — | — | 26 | 55 | 81 | |
| 8 | 👁 NU school colors NU | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | — | — | 1 | 2 | — | — | 1 | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | 8 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 14 | 3 | 17 | |
(H) Season host; = Champion; = Runner-up; = Third place; — = No team.
Notes: Results are final.
Juniors' division
[edit]| 👁 Basketball | 👁 Volleyball (indoor) | 👁 Swimming | 👁 Chess | 👁 Table tennis | 👁 Taekwondo | 👁 Athletics | Total | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Team | B | B | G | B | G | C | B | B | B | B | G | C | K | Overall |
| 1 | 👁 UE school colors UE (H) | 2 | 15 | 15 | 10 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 10 | 6 | 58 | 30 | 15 | 0 | 103 |
| 2 | 👁 UST school colors UST | 4 | 10 | 12 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 10 | 15 | 15 | 60 | 20 | 6 | 0 | 86 |
| 3 | 👁 Ateneo school colors Ateneo | 10 | 12 | — | 15 | — | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 73 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 85 |
| 4 | 👁 La Salle school colors DLSZ | 15 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 55 | 20 | 4 | 0 | 79 |
| 5 | 👁 UP school colors UPIS | 12 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 12 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 50 | 20 | 8 | 0 | 78 |
| 6 | 👁 NU school colors NU | 1 | — | — | — | — | 10 | 6 | — | — | 7 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 17 |
| 7 | 👁 Adamson school colors Adamson | 6 | — | — | — | — | 2 | 2 | — | — | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 10 |
| 8 | 👁 FEU school colors FEU–FERN | 8 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
Notes: Results are final.
Individual awards
[edit]Athlete of the Year:
- Seniors: Luica Dacanay (UP Lady Maroons, swimming)
- Juniors: Nelson Mariano III (UE Red Warriors, chess)[3]
Suspension of De La Salle University-Manila
[edit]Controversy surrounded the UAAP after De La Salle University-Manila (DLSU) discovered that two members of its men's basketball team were ineligible to play in the UAAP from the 2003–2004 up to the 2005–2006 season. The players failed Department of Education's Philippine Educational Placement Test Certificate of Rating (PEPTCR, a replacement for a high school diploma). The University has offered to return the 2004 championship and 2005 runner-up trophy and file a leave of absence from the league.
In its meeting on April 21, 2006[dead link] in Adamson University, members of the UAAP Board unanimously decided to suspend DLSU in all sports events of the UAAP for the entire 2006–2007 season as a consequence of the university's negligence and inaction against the two ineligible players.
The board has also forfeited all of La Salle's men's basketball games from 2003 to 2004. The board awarded the 2004 title to FEU as a result.
If the forfeited games are factored in, the final elimination round standings is:
| Team | W | L |
|---|---|---|
| FEU Tamaraws | 12 | 2 |
| Ateneo Blue Eagles | 12 | 2 |
| UE Red Warriors | 11 | 3 |
| UP Fighting Maroons | 7 | 7 |
| UST Growling Tigers | 6 | 8 |
| Adamson Soaring Falcons | 5 | 9 |
| NU Bulldogs | 3 | 11 |
| La Salle Green Archers | 0 | 14 |
All of La Salle's victories in the playoffs were also forfeited; if La Salle won the 2005 title, they would've surrendered back the trophy to the finals opponents, FEU.